‍Brink boilers:

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‍Brink boilers were for a few years back in the 1990s, imported and sold by Johnson and Starley. Brink are a Dutch firm making warm air heaters and ventilation systems. I encounter few of these nowadays but they are sturdily constructed, durable, basic and reliable.

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‍These are physically very large boilers, old-fashioned in design and ranging in heat output from 12kW (B12) to 36kW (B34). All are ‘open flue’ in format and I remember them for being very time-consuming to service (endless screws to remove and fiddly to dismantle). They come in two formats: up-flow and down-flow, the down-flow versions having the suffix “D” added to the model number.

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‍The thermocouple which monitors the pilot flame is the main point of failure and the correct part is extraordinarily expensive as a spare part - £80 as opposed to under £10 for the equivalent part in other boilers. In fact most parts for this boiler seem to be unreasonably expensive. I’ve just looked up the fan cost for the B23 illustrated - £975.21 plus VAT - but fortunately these Brink boilers hardly ever seem to fail. One thing I notice however, for people with what appears to be a failing thermocouple, is the pilot is awfully prone to blowing out if you forget to close the small metal cover plate over the hole you put your match through to light the pilot flame. Always close it after re-lighting the pilot!

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‍Unlike other Johnson and Starley warm air appliances, the Brink did not have the option to have a hot water circulator. Separate provision for hot water was always necessary which I think led to these Brink boilers never becoming particularly successful for Johnson and starley. J&S no longer import them.

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‍There is very little information about these still available. Even J&S don’t include the manual or user instructions on their website but from memory they were very simple boilers, either ON or OFF, with no modulation or proportional control. Johnson and Starley will email you a copy of the manual if you call them and ask.

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‍For more information send me a text at any time, on:

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‍07866 766364

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