Hi all, looking for a bit of advice please.
Fired up my Trianco 70/90 after the summer 'break' - worked fine. Next morning opened the boiler room door - water on the floor. Stripped the unit down - 3 sides of the water jacket looked fine the other side seemed to be leaking from the welds in the middle - both recesses, somewhere around the bottom and even the weld around the water outlet pipe at the top!! Not really repairable - the unit is around 11 - 12 years old. Looked for a spare water jacket - it is a simple heat only unit - non condensing with a vertical flue. Not a lot to go wrong - apart from the water jacket. Contacted Trianco - would need to be made up specially - contact a dealer or two. Did so - quotes £650 - £850. Looked up the price of boilers - simple, heat only, non condensing (my boiler room location is in the centre of the house with no ready access to a drain and long vertical flue - not too keen on digging trenches across concrete floors or facing the prospect of condensate in my long vertical flue). Seems a limited choice of non condensing models. Worcester claim to have made none in the last 18 months, Grant only do so to special order. Can get a Trianco or a Thermsaver for around £700. Is there any great difference in simple heat only boilers - they all seem to employ a mild steel heat exchanger and a standard third party burner? Does anyone know of a source of a reasonably priced water jacket for my old Trianco - cannot believe the prices quoted for a spare part - looked at the installation manual for the most recent similar model - water jacket certainly looks quite similar.
In summary. For a new boiler of this type what would be a recommendation? Trianco, Thermsaver, Mistral, Firebird etc. Alternatively does anyone know of a sensibly priced source of Trianco water jacket spares - don't think Trianco is an option.
My heating system is unusual in that it is partially under floor (water pipes) and partially radiators. I have ambitions in the not too distant future to look at the costs and benefits of an air source heat pump for the underfloor section (RHI etc.) and leave the boiler for hot water and as a supplement - especially for the radiator section. Therefore, the cold weather notwithstanding (thank god for the log burner), I am trying to resurrect the oil burning side of the heating system without any un-necessary expenditure.
Many thanks for any help and suggestions
Regards
Graham
Fired up my Trianco 70/90 after the summer 'break' - worked fine. Next morning opened the boiler room door - water on the floor. Stripped the unit down - 3 sides of the water jacket looked fine the other side seemed to be leaking from the welds in the middle - both recesses, somewhere around the bottom and even the weld around the water outlet pipe at the top!! Not really repairable - the unit is around 11 - 12 years old. Looked for a spare water jacket - it is a simple heat only unit - non condensing with a vertical flue. Not a lot to go wrong - apart from the water jacket. Contacted Trianco - would need to be made up specially - contact a dealer or two. Did so - quotes £650 - £850. Looked up the price of boilers - simple, heat only, non condensing (my boiler room location is in the centre of the house with no ready access to a drain and long vertical flue - not too keen on digging trenches across concrete floors or facing the prospect of condensate in my long vertical flue). Seems a limited choice of non condensing models. Worcester claim to have made none in the last 18 months, Grant only do so to special order. Can get a Trianco or a Thermsaver for around £700. Is there any great difference in simple heat only boilers - they all seem to employ a mild steel heat exchanger and a standard third party burner? Does anyone know of a source of a reasonably priced water jacket for my old Trianco - cannot believe the prices quoted for a spare part - looked at the installation manual for the most recent similar model - water jacket certainly looks quite similar.
In summary. For a new boiler of this type what would be a recommendation? Trianco, Thermsaver, Mistral, Firebird etc. Alternatively does anyone know of a sensibly priced source of Trianco water jacket spares - don't think Trianco is an option.
My heating system is unusual in that it is partially under floor (water pipes) and partially radiators. I have ambitions in the not too distant future to look at the costs and benefits of an air source heat pump for the underfloor section (RHI etc.) and leave the boiler for hot water and as a supplement - especially for the radiator section. Therefore, the cold weather notwithstanding (thank god for the log burner), I am trying to resurrect the oil burning side of the heating system without any un-necessary expenditure.
Many thanks for any help and suggestions
Regards
Graham