About us

Our parent company is 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 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 have decided to mothball the project for the present time.

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 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 almost unlimited number of manuals and other data sheets and loads of bandwidth for downloading them.

A start was made scanning manuals and upload them, the indexes were built and the site tested.

The Manuals Library was born!