Heating Controls - which brand

[ckl139]

Hi,

Our heating engineer is suggesting to use IFLO branded heating controls?

I have been told they are, they are made by LifeStyle - but I have not heard of LifeStyle either - just Drayton LifeStyle...

Can any one shed light on this IFLO brand.

I have the option to pay £75 and go for honeywell, do heating control brands make alot of difference?

 

[Charnwood]

Isn't Iflo Travis Perkins / City Plumbing's own-brand stuff?
http://www.cityplumbing.co.uk/searc...ORY&category=273995&attribute=-1&displayType=

 

[Tibbot]

From Charnwood's link you can see that they are indeed Drayton controls with a different logo.

 

[Dan Robinson]

And therefore pants.

So look for Honeywell .

 

[DeltaT2]

Hi,

Our heating engineer is suggesting to use IFLO branded heating controls?

I have been told they are, they are made by LifeStyle - but I have not heard of LifeStyle either - just Drayton LifeStyle...

Can any one shed light on this IFLO brand.

I have the option to pay £75 and go for honeywell, do heating control brands make alot of difference?

All synchron motors go on the blink, Honeywell ones also. So go for Salus controls, we have never had a faulty control that they have not replaced FOC, and that's only been one or two. Their RF stuff is 1st class & never had a faulty one yet.

Sunvic is another one, MOMO zone valves are great & made here in Scotland(well via China), a great product.

Honeywell stuff is not as good as it once was, we find their RF stuff cr.p, hard on batteries & if someone rings the doorbell the CH comes on!!!
They may be the best of a bad bunch, at most.

 

[gazdaz36]

It's funny how everyone recommends the controls that they fit when controls covers so many products.

Programmer/timer - I find Drayton are rock solid. Nice and easy to work. Honeywell have more feautures but have had some problems with their digital timeswitch. Potterton the sliders always go wrong. Horstman and danfoss ok but tend to have problems with age.

Room stat - Hard wired once again Drayton I find rock solid. Honeywell good but seen quite a few where the dial has cracked. Wireless ones I would say the older Drayton ones tend to go wrong with age but not had a problem with new version yet. Honeywell on the wireless version are excellent. Salus you get what you payfor they are cheap and had many failures on the wireless stat.

Cylinder stats - not much difference between them all don't often go wrong.

3 port/ zone valves - I would fit Honeywell everytime. Drayton are good all the rest sunvic, potterton, danfoss not the best actuators

Each brand has it's good and bad products but if your choice is Honeywell or Drayton both are good products.

I know that everyone will argue with what I say but this is my experience of going out to on average 25-30 breakdowns a week for the last 15 years

 

[Tibbot]

Can't disagree with those points except you're being too kind about Salus RF products.

 

[DeltaT2]

Can't disagree with those points except you're being too kind about Salus RF products.

Rubbish, Salus RF is very good, the RT500 is a 1st class product. Perhaps you chaps can't set them up correctly or understand electrics & electronics?

 

[mickyg]

hahaha salus, have a day offf dick, are you on the payroll or something???

OP- drayton stuff is fine. BG have been using this gear for yonks, and they tend to dump anything unreliable(magnaclean, ideal, myson pumps)

personal prefference is danfoss and honeywell, but its all a muchness for this kind of gear

 

[DeltaT2]

hahaha salus, have a day offf dick, are you on the payroll or something???

OP- drayton stuff is fine. BG have been using this gear for yonks, and they tend to dump anything unreliable(magnaclean, ideal, myson pumps)

personal prefference is danfoss and honeywell, but its all a muchness for this kind of gear

I wish I could Micky mate, stuck at work again!!..........

 

[mickyg]

I wish I could Micky mate, stuck at work again!!..........

thought with all your successes and ivory towers I thought you'd be retired by now
working in to your 70s cant be good for your health

 

[DeltaT2]

I wish I could Micky mate, stuck at work again!!..........

thought with all your successes and ivory towers I thought you'd be retired by now
working in to your 70s cant be good for your health

You can't be a Captain of industry mate without putting in the hours!!
That's where these young pups get it all wrong, lazy bas.ards!!
Lunch is for wimps..............

 

[ckl139]

Hi all,

thanks for the useful responses. I have concluded that I wont go wrong with either Drayton or Honeywell (@£75 extra).

Final question which I think was partly answered but not sure - are IFLO and drayton products the same thing?

 

[mickyg]

Final question which I think was partly answered but not sure - are IFLO and drayton products the same thing?

yes

 

[Tibbot]

Perhaps you chaps can't set them up correctly or understand electrics & electronics?

Then we're not alone. If you took away the posts complaining about Salus, we'd hardly have a forum left. Even the name sounds sh*t.