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What site would that be?

I think I'm going to go for this: Vaillant ecoTEC plus 837HE Combi £980.66 inc VAT and Delivery from supremeplumb.com Anyone used those guys? - are they any good?

Sorry, I had the wrong install date, the PCB failure was at around 1 year and 8 months and the leak was after 1 year and 11 months so no warranty:(

Imagine how ****ed off I must be -- I paid £1,666 per year for heating with the Baxi not including actual gas running costs. I could have run a whole bunch of 4kW electric heaters 24x7 and still wouldn't get anywhere near as much as heating with the Baxi cost me. EDIT: That's 5 quid a day...

Hmm, Watchdog?

ok, I have these 3 on my list to consider: Worcester Greenstar 25Si LPG -- £850.70 + £62.00 Flue Kit Vaillant Ecotec Plus 831 -- £974.0 + £70.00 Flue Kit Alpha HE CB33 Condensing Combi Boiler -- £702.65 + £45.00 Flue Kit The price of the Alpha is very attractive, anyone else can confirm...

Where do you get one of those? - I can only find the 25si

My CORGIE is willing to swap over my broken Baxi for another one I buy for £200 labour. Keep in mind thought he feels bad because I paid him £2,500 for the Baxi he picked out and installed and a year and a half later, it's now cheaper to get a new one that get this one repaired. That's...

The house is around 330 square feet (I think, just a guesstimate) - it's a 3 bedroom (originally 2 bedroom) and there are 8 radiators. It used to be the old system with 2 water tanks and I think a lot of the extra pipes have been kept. There are 2 toilets and 1 bath.

Thanks, I was just thinking I should start a thread of what I should get to replace the Baxi, lol -- I've had a search and could only find the: Worcester Greenstar 25Si NG -- going for £794.30 -- is that close enough? EDIT: The 25Si only has 10L/min? -- a bit low, isn't it? (The mains...

The boiler with labour and repairs cost me almost 2.5 grand and lasted exactly 1 year and 11months :( -- 2 months ago the PCB burnt, now the Heat Exchanger started leaking and ruined the Burner too. It was all set up by a CORGI that has nothing but the best reputation from all my friends, so...

So what do you know, 2 months after the repair the boiler overheated and shut off due to loss of pressure. I spoke to my CORGI and he said to top it up, which I did, and after a day the boiler all of a sudden started making a very loud fog horn type sound -- switched it off immediately. The...

gasman was right :( I had a Baxi 133 HE Plus put in on the 23/07/05 (1 year, 11 months ago) and it has worked fine for a year and a bit, but I had a PCB failure 2 months ago at a repair cost of £200 and now the flipping heat exchanger and burner are gone, which is a whopping repair cost of...

A certified plumber - there is visible damage to the big looking component next to a capacitor, there is also a bubble in the plastic cover and a burning plastic smell :( The plumber just replaced the PCB, serviced the boiler and £271 later, it is working again. PS: the symptoms were...

I had my 133HE Plus for only 14 months, and the PCB's gone :( -- £130 ex VAT for replacement PCB - looking on google for reviews of this thing it seems there are quite a few reports of exactly the same thing happening, how do Baxi manage to time these things to break 2 months out of warranty...