I’m Mike Bryant, the original Mike the Boilerman. I’ve called myself this and used it as my trading name since 2004 when a customer of mine suggested it, because that is what they’ve always known me as! There are one or two other Mike the Boiler men appearing on the net nowadays but they are not me and hopefully my writing style distinguishes me from them 🙂
I’m based in the village of Bedwyn just over the border of Berkshire and Wiltshire, and I routinely travel up to about 60 miles in any direction to fix a Powermax. I make longer trips sometimes so feel free to ask. Trips into London however can be expensive though, not due to distance so much as the time it takes travelling and parking, in addition to the ULEZ and Congestion charges as I don’t have an expensive new ‘low emissions’ van.
I’m Gas Safe Registered to work on gas appliances (reg no 197499) and I’ve been a Registered Plumber with the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (reg no 009909L) since 1982, although I no longer actually practice as a jobbing plumber. I’m exclusively boiler fault-tracing nowadays as that is what I’m best at.
I run a number of websites named after the various boilers I specialise in repairing (several of them being older and top quality ‘vintage’ or ‘classic’ boilers that sadly no-one else will mend), Powermax being just one of them.
My main hobby (apart from fixing central heating boilers and writing websites about them) is canal boating and the beautiful old vintage diesel engines often found in canal narrow boats. I have one of my own, currently moored on the Oxford Canal near Banbury.