Was it good Paul? I'm off up there for 2 days including hotel etc paid for by them/plumbs in a months time. Hopefully will get the clay pigeon shooting as well, rather than the golf.
Choice of boiler - Alpha any good?
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Was it good Paul? I'm off up there for 2 days including hotel etc paid for by them/plumbs in a months time. Hopefully will get the clay pigeon shooting as well, rather than the golf.
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Time to resurrect and update this thread.
OK - Worcester-Bosch are the most heavily advertised. BG likes them. Draw your own conclusions.
We have an Alpha (trade version of Baxi) CD35C which is nearly six years old. Utterly faultless. Everything is inside the cabinet flap - loop, dial, settings - perfect for cleanliness, reliability and, especially in 'rougher' locations eg garage. No extras that fitters like for adding charges! Best warranty (5 or 7yrs) but, as serious consumers realise, warranties are worthless if you cannot enforce them or there are reams of small print in the T&Cs.
Forget the rest, this is the one to fit.
OK - Worcester-Bosch are the most heavily advertised. BG likes them. Draw your own conclusions.
We have an Alpha (trade version of Baxi) CD35C which is nearly six years old. Utterly faultless. Everything is inside the cabinet flap - loop, dial, settings - perfect for cleanliness, reliability and, especially in 'rougher' locations eg garage. No extras that fitters like for adding charges! Best warranty (5 or 7yrs) but, as serious consumers realise, warranties are worthless if you cannot enforce them or there are reams of small print in the T&Cs.
Forget the rest, this is the one to fit.
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One of the region's top fitters, son-in-law of neighbour. {But heard it several years ago from a personal friend, director of an installer company elsewhere in the UK, too}. He, neighbour, recently installed a Baxi- badged boiler for his mother-in-law at her request. The details on their box tally with those in my manual. Whoever told you not, was incorrect.
There aren't many manufacturers of anything in this world any longer, just a question of who sticks the badges on!
Pointless post without specifics.
It is a matter of fact that my Alpha has performed faultlessly for ~6yrs, unless you know black is white. It is a matter of fact that many similar reports exist.
The only claimed advantage of W-B is that it has an advanced design with only 3 moving parts. The trade seems to have more call outs with those parts and, of course, it's misleading advertising hype if their pcb and other non-moving parts fail more often, which they seem to do. Hence my allusion to advertising and BG - wouldn't listen to either.
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Only 3 moving parts in the wooster botch??????? NOPE. More like 6.
Advanced design??????? Definately not
Wtf are you on about iamthedoctornot
Advanced design??????? Definately not
Wtf are you on about iamthedoctornot
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Try to read what I say, not what you think has been said. Time and again I hear these CLAIMS about Worcester-Bosch. As I clearly say - it's all hype. I don't believe it either. I hear about folk who've had these expensive machines installed and have had to invoke their warranty (or, at least, try) within a year or two. That is not the experience with Alpha/Baxi.
hrs2004 originally asked about Alpha boilers - that is the title of this thread. I answered his enquiry with a long term experience. If other guys want to chime in with other makes, they can; it doesn't directly address the title, though.
Incidentally, ChrisRoberts (no2), all Alpha boilers have an ss heat exchanger now.
Try to read what I say, not what you think has been said. Time and again I hear these CLAIMS about Worcester-Bosch. As I clearly say - it's all hype. I don't believe it either. I hear about folk who've had these expensive machines installed and have had to invoke their warranty (or, at least, try) within a year or two. That is not the experience with Alpha/Baxi.
hrs2004 originally asked about Alpha boilers - that is the title of this thread. I answered his enquiry with a long term experience. If other guys want to chime in with other makes, they can; it doesn't directly address the title, though.
Incidentally, ChrisRoberts (no2), all Alpha boilers have an ss heat exchanger now.
Are we talking about the same "Alpha"?
We mean Alpha Innovation is based at Wrotham Heath, Sevenoaks, Kent.
We mean Alpha Innovation is based at Wrotham Heath, Sevenoaks, Kent.
I'd recommend the Intec 34C, although the ECO and lower O.P. units are basically the same and all have an ss core. Obviously, mine is the older CD version. Not always true, but the newer versions may be even better and are offered with 7yr PP warranty (for extra up-front payment). Certainly, their specs are improved.
I've said my piece now about Alpha so leave this thread wishing good luck to all who sail in her.
I've said my piece now about Alpha so leave this thread wishing good luck to all who sail in her.
OK, we are talking about the same company.
And you can carry on believing that Alpha boilers are actually Baxi's sold to the 'trade'!
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