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Resetting or repressurising your Baxi boiler

December 9, 2011 – 4:00 pm

Occasionally your boiler may display an error code which shows it needs resetting or repressurising.  Often it is quite simple to reset or repressurise it yourself, and avoid calling out your gas engineer. Your user guide will tell how to do it.  Don’t worry if you haven’t got it – visit Parts Arena to download [...]

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Energy Saving Week – day 2: Microgeneration

October 25, 2011 – 2:35 pm

  Living with renewables – how to choose what’s right for you The idea of ‘green’ living is high on many people’s agenda now, fuelled by extensive coverage in the media and the threat of major energy price rises.  But how do you decide which of the many new low carbon technologies on offer are [...]

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Proud to be in Warwick for 40 years

April 21, 2011 – 2:47 pm

Brooks House celebrates 40th Anniversary On Wednesday 20 April 2011, Baxi employees at Brooks House, Coventry Road, Warwick celebrated the 40th anniversary of the opening of the building.  They dug out their flares and spandex, dressed up in 70s clothes and enjoyed a huge cake to mark the day in 1971 when Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd MA [...]

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Trophies galore for Baxi Ecogen

April 14, 2011 – 3:29 pm

We are extremely proud of the Baxi Ecogen dual energy system.  So far this year we have won the Innovation category of the Rushlight Awards, the Plumbing and Heating category and the Green award of the Homebuilding and Renovating Product Excellence Awards and the Technology/Innovation category of the COGEN Europe Recognition Awards.  We were also [...]

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Managing your energy bills – about the Priority Service Register

March 23, 2011 – 12:46 pm

All major energy suppliers are obliged to provide a range of free services to vulnerable customers through the Priority Service Register (PSR). The PSR is available to anyone who is of pensionable age, living with a disability or chronic illness, or with a visual or hearing impairment. Joining the PSR entitles you to the following [...]

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Baxi welcomes the publication of the Government’s RHI policy document

March 15, 2011 – 12:36 pm

Baxi has broadly welcomed the Government’s publication on Thursday 10th March of its Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) policy document. We are encouraged by the main thrust of the RHI documentation.  The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has clearly learnt the important lessons from the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) framework and created an approach which will ensure technologies [...]

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Baxi at Ecobuild 2011

March 7, 2011 – 10:50 am

Graham Parkes, Head of Sales – Low Carbon Technologies, and his team were kept very busy at the recent Ecobuild exhibition at London ExCel. They were demonstrating working models of Baxi Ecogen dual energy system and Baxi Bioflo compact biomass boiler on the Plumb Center sponsored Practical Installer stand.  “People came to the show with [...]

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Spare a thought…

February 24, 2011 – 10:12 am

In the UK, we may be in the grip of tough economic cuts and miserable February weather (we Brits do like to talk about the weather, don’t we!), but our hearts go out to the people of Christchurch, New Zealand, and those in Libya. The earthquake in Christchurch seems all the more shocking because, from the [...]

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Double win for Baxi Ecogen

February 17, 2011 – 12:46 pm

The Baxi Ecogen dual energy system has won both the Heating and Plumbing category and the Green Award in the Homebuilding & Renovating Product Excellence Awards 2011. Michael Holmes, Editor in chief Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine and presenter of Channel 5 “I own Britain’s best home”, said: “The Baxi Ecogen harnesses well established micro generation [...]

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Our man Gary is a hero!

January 13, 2011 – 5:28 pm

One of our salesmen, Gary Wainright, is being hailed as a hero by his family, friends and colleagues after fending off a sword-wielding thug in a bar in Tenerife during a New Year holiday.  His actions enabled over 100 people, including women and children, to escape. The three foot sword broke Gary’s arm in four [...]

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