New Boiler

[Fred Bloggs]

Excellent post, very useful.

What do you reckon of Vaillant combis? I thought they had the best reputation. They're flippin expensive enough (see previous post)

I would never buy a combi boiler of any description. Amongst many drawbacks are the fact that I would lose my airing cupboard. Combi boliers do not have a hot water cylinder. Note that "combi" and "condensing" are not the same thing at all. AFAIK, Vaillant are a decent boiler but I'd still go for Weissman myself. They are guaranteed for 5 years as long as you use a Weissman installer. Ofcourse, it may cost an arm and a leg and the servicing to maintain the warranty will not come cheap. Myself, I'm keeping my 17 y.o. Baxi going for as long as possible.

[Fred Bloggs]

You might be (rightly in my view) happy to have a non condensing boiler. Sadly building regs aren't. You can always try for an exemption cert from building control though.

+1. Don't hold your breath waiting for an exemption.

[BoredBloke]

Ok - probably had my terminology wrong, but what I meant was I'd like a system boiler or a regular boiler rather than a combi boiler.

Are they still allowed?

Gas boilers - Worcester, Bosch Group UK homeowner site

[Fred Bloggs]

Boilers for CH systems with hot water tanks are available as condensing boilers, no problem.

[Lockhouse]

OK, Got my quote; £8667. That's for two boilers. a 40kwh for the heating\hot water and a 20kwh for the indoor pool and annex. It will take 5 days to install and set up.

They don't do any single bigger boilers unless I go commercial which is 15K and has no benefit except just being one single unit. We're going to get a couple more quotes but looks like we'll be limping on for now and getting a new boiler (or two) when time and money permits.

[d000hg]

Ok - probably had my terminology wrong, but what I meant was I'd like a system boiler or a regular boiler rather than a combi boiler.

Are they still allowed?

Gas boilers - Worcester, Bosch Group UK homeowner site

Are you just saying you want a like-for-like replacement for your old system which heated water and put it in a tank?

That's what we did: Baxi Bermuda Back Boiler Unit

[jimjamuk]

having an extension done to the cardbord box as we speak - builder says that apart from venting into the new extension with the old boiller it might be wise to replace and put in a new vent pointing outside - dunno what he's on about

Said boiler would be about 600-700 quid and as long as we put it roughly in the same spot (so they done have to reroute the pipework and gas) it would be about the same again to fit with a new vent

£8000

[OwlHoot]

.. servicing to maintain the warranty will not come cheap. ..

That's the big problem with all these fancy modern boilers. The plumber says all the pipes need sluicing out once a year, and the radiators bleeding (!), which is apparently almost as time consuming and labour intensive as pushing a pea across the Sahara desert with your nose. Or that was the impression he gave. So I would expect that to cost several hundred pounds! Per year!!

With my old electric boiler all I had to do was unscrew the main element housing, stick in a new heating element, toss a sacrificial anode into the boiler, and it was good to go for another five years! Job done in ten minutes for £20 tops.

Snag is I don't really have room for a water tank in my current flat. So a combi is the only option AFAIK.

[ASB]

OK, Got my quote; £8667. That's for two boilers. a 40kwh for the heating\hot water and a 20kwh for the indoor pool and annex. It will take 5 days to install and set up.

They don't do any single bigger boilers unless I go commercial which is 15K and has no benefit except just being one single unit. We're going to get a couple more quotes but looks like we'll be limping on for now and getting a new boiler (or two) when time and money permits.

£8.5k.

That quoter must have a very interesting pricing scheme.

[Lockhouse]

£8.5k.

That quoter must have a very interesting pricing scheme.

British Gas.