New boiler required...but which one?!

[durhamplumber]

A really good heating engineer would be able to use common sense to understand a boiler seen for the first time and only need the manual when the design lacks common sense.

Precisely Bernie.Tis called experience!...Take it from me WB lack ALL commonsense!

 

[durhamplumber]

A good plumber/ heating engineer should, given the manuals, be able to service and/or repair most domestic boilers.

So you suggesting we sit at home reading all the manuals beforehand?

 

[bernardgreen]

Precisely Bernie.Tis called experience!

Experience only increases the existing ability to comprehend how a boiler seen for the first time is constructed and how it functions. But if that basic ability is not there in the first place ( as in trained monkeys ) then no matter how much experience the person is given the ability will not be created developed.

So you suggesting we sit at home reading all the manuals beforehand

No. because that won't be much use if you have to service a boiler whose manual you have not read.

Go back a few years and a car mechanic skilled in repairing Ford cars could also repair a Renault as the basic principles of a car engine were the same no matter what make.

 

[ollski]

A good plumber/ heating engineer should, given the manuals, be able to service and/or repair most domestic boilers.

It doesnt quite work like that, most faults arent detailed in the manual and the majority of experienced guys pretty much know the likely fault from experience before they head out of the door.

 

[dilalio]

You can't learn how to ride a bike by reading a book!

 

[breadnbutter]

you can read all the manuals going, but soon as you face a boiler fault, you would be frozen. experience is total.
the best boilers, I don't think there any that stand out, they all have there minus and plus. it depends on your requirments, how much you want to pay, flueing , conversions, upgrades ect