Multipoint & Back Boiler vs Combi

Onions · 26 Oct 2006

Hi all,

I'm aware this post probably will elicit many opinions, but....

My Main Medway Multipoint has developed a leak in the heat exchange, and on further inspection, the engineer found a crack in the exchange casing. Needless to say, it's currently out of service, leaving us without hot water.

We also have a baxi back-boiler which i estimate is approx 30 years old, and i suspect won't last much longer.

Both appliances have been serviced annually.

My question therefore: is a combi the only real option we have?

Comments please!!

Onions.

Paul Barker · 26 Oct 2006

Have a new Brittony II fitted in place of the Main Medway. Roughly off the top of my head £260 plus vat. Should outlast most combis three times over.

sime10 · 26 Oct 2006

Have a new Brittony II fitted in place of the Main Medway. Roughly off the top of my head £260 plus vat. Should outlast most combis three times over.

EFFICIENCY GLOBAL WARMING REGS?

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ChrisR · 26 Oct 2006

WHEN the back boiler dies (often through leaking) you'll probably have to replace it with a condensing boiler - depending on the property. It would be a bit daft to have a mutipoint and a heat-only boiler. Combis are better for showers etc than multipoints becasue they regulate the water better.
Or you could put a condensing non-combi boiler in now, heat a cylinder as you are now, and do away with the Multipoint.

Paul Barker · 27 Oct 2006

sime10 said:
Have a new Brittony II fitted in place of the Main Medway. Roughly off the top of my head £260 plus vat. Should outlast most combis three times over.

EFFICIENCY GLOBAL WARMING REGS?

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What do you mean regs? know your facts before you criticise.

Efficiency needs to be assessed in terms of capital cost and breakdown costs.

Global warming needs to be assessed in terms of increased cost to environment of continually reproducing crap boilers rather than repairing perfectly good old ones, which were made in a way that they would outlast the present range 3 times.

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Paul Barker · 27 Oct 2006

And another thing, I really am seethiong after that complete loony Bamber Gascoign was bigging himself up for driving an electric car in a news report where some fascist controlling council has decided to charge more for parking of vehicles with higher emissions (so I'd have to get a smaller van and spend two trips to every job instead of one) BUT this is the big one, no charge for ELECTWIC vehicles.

Anyone who has done the energy efficiency course will know what I am saying.

How can they be so stupid?

What it's really about is votes and the squirel and the grasshopper.

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Multipoint & Back Boiler vs Combi

Onions

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