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Our founding company was totally engaged in servicing and maintaining all makes of gas and oil burning boilers and to enable that work to be carried out as efficiently as possible an up to date and as complete as possible set of Installation & Servicing Manuals is required. Both in respect of modern boilers (and ancillary equipment) but also the older models.
To carry these around in a van in paper form is both cumbersome and space consuming so a decision was taken and a laptop computer purchased and a start was made to convert the paper copies into PDF format. We also noticed on various professional forums requests for specific manuals, which we were able to email. So started the thoughts of an online manuals library.
Around the same time Les Gradwell started his 'My-Mate' project and produced a set of three CD's full of manuals in electronic form. He subsequently passed this project to ARGI however they decided not to continue with the project.
The online version was planned and thought about but the necessary facilities from a 'standard' Internet hosting package just didn't seem available. A few requirements from one and some from another company but not all, at a reasonable price, from a single company.
Arrangements were therefore made with Liquid Web, an American company, to rent a Virtual Private Server that would give all the facilities required - any missing we can add ourselves. It gives us plenty of storage space to host an unlimited number of manuals, and other data sheets, with plenty of bandwidth for downloading them.
A start was made scanning manuals and uploading them, the indexes were built and the site tested.
The Manuals Library was born!
Time has passed and we have truly gone from strength to strength. Gone is the old index structure to be replaced by a fully searchable database which has grown to the extent that it now holds details of well over 6,000 boilers. We are still hosted with Liquid Web but now on a fully dedicated server to ensure the service we offer is both quick and reliable.
