2001Burnham warantee not transferrable to new owner

John Mills_5

And some are giving a free furnace (to original owner) if the heat exchanger goes in so many years!

K. G.

2001Burnham warantee not transferrable to new owner

Just to warn folks. We moved into a house in late 2002 that had a oil boiler installed mar 2001. It's leaking and needs to be replaced (my brother is the plumber). Since we didn't install the boiler, it's not covered.

Pretty horrible of a company to not stand behind it's product when it's not even 5 years old yet.

Weezbo

Bhurnam probably did not do the install.

why fault them?

David_5

warranty


I think most boiler companies have that clause in the warranty. Peerless is the only one I know of that is transferable. Why is the boiler leaking?

David

K. G.

It doesn't matter who did the install. The warentee

doesn't transfer to a new owner - end of sentence.

David_5

coroded cast iron

In the e-mail to me you said the cast iron coroded(spelling). Something else is going on there because they do not fail that fast. Chances are there is something wrong with your system that caused the boiler to fail too soon.

David

Brad White_9

Chlorides

Anything that bad has to be due to, oh, maybe the laundry nearby. Chlorine mixing with combustion products.

A recent thread of over a month or two ago had an open floor drain by which laundry waste flowed. It took out a Buderus, I believe. And that is a tough thing to do.

David_5

Peerless warranty

I checked the Peerless warranty and it only applies to the original home owner.

David

jp_2

thread

I agree that was an interesting thread but I didn't buy that theory.

1.)the drain is a small diameter, not a lot of liquid surface to draw from.

2.)wash cycles are followed by rinse cycles,

3.)a cup of bleach in 20 gallons of wash water is pretty darn dilute.

and anytime someone uses water that little drain surface becomes all the more dilute.

I think if stuff corroded that easy we still be riding horse.

gotta prove stuff too!

Brad White_35

Of all the probable theories

it was the best. "Absent all other known factors, no matter how implausible, what remains has to be the truth" as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote.

I mean, that boiler went in two years. Besides, chlorides are more of a catalyst than an agent. It does not take much and the drain if I read it correctly was dedicated to the laundry.

In the end, JP, you are probably right that we will never know for sure. But if not that, then what was it? (Cue Rod Serling Twilight Zone theme here)......

Kniggit

you know this is verry strange that an old market like this is outclassed with the warranty of another market, the warranty is transferable on all the scorched air equipment i sell, even if for a shortend term at least it is something, even the extended warranty is transferable FOC.

David_5

response to response

K.G. wrote

We're using this "opportunity" to switch from oil to gas (something we've wanted to do since we moved in). Since we're doing the conversion, the new gas boiler is only going to set us back $500 (will probably be another burnham!). I'm not sure about exactly what's causing what (i'm the wife of a Boilermaker but I don't know anything about this stuff). I was just shocked a company that's been around 125 years wouldn't stand behind a boiler that's less than 5 years old and wanted to make people aware of the non-transferable warantee thing. We have rental houses and next time we buy another property I'm going to have the boiler inspected by my plumber so if there's any kind of problem the current owner can have the problem fixed so it won't become our problem
Take care and be well.



All manufacturers make people aware of the non transferable warranty thing. They put it in the warranty which comes with the equipment.
$500.00 for a new boiler, I would be proud of that deal.

David

Kniggit

yea i know i just can't wait till one fails and i have to charge labor, and they say, it was under warranty..... i push extended warranties for every job but i have only sold one. it makes me sad. If i roll them into the est i lose it because i am priced to hight, unfortunatly people areound a army installation move within 5 years and are almost always gone before it matters, and the installer that did it is out of business, it just makes me sick.