New boiler?

[sealo0]

Hi All

I have little doubt that my question has been asked before.

I have a 4 bedroom / 3 bath Chalet bungalow built in 1958 (with a 2 bed / 2 bath extension built in 1988 making the total). We only brought the house two years ago because of my son accident. The extension is ideal for him & his live in carer.

The existing boiler is a Potterton Kingfisher but the piping to the hotwater tank and older parts of the house are what I can only call a cat cradles pipes new and old all over the place Galavanised & plated Steel, plastic & copper ~ yep there all there. I have one plumber look it & never heard from him again!!! But it has to be sorted.

Paul’s hot water requirement is quite large & and some times frequent. In winter he has heating on most days but we do just use a 2KW oil filled rad a lot instead of the heating. In the main bath we have a Mira Sport. Paul batroom is about to be redone by Social Services to include another Mira which will be used daily.

So down to the question (well the Mods says you must give as much info as possible)
I am looking to replace the boiler & tank & as much pipework as we can get at. In our last house we had a Keston 35 + Megflo (for 8 years) and were very pleased with it apart from the noise.

Any advise on what set up to use in this house my only stipulations are SEDBUK A plus a Solar Megflo (type)

Sorry didn’t mean this to be that long!!

Mike

 

[kevindgas]

give me a ring and i'd be pleased to quote you
Corgi, unvented, part p and solar bpec accredited

kev 514173

 

[sealo0]

give me a ring and i'd be pleased to quote you
Corgi, unvented, part p and solar bpec accredited

kev 514173

Hi

Thanks for that, I might take you up on your offer.

However I was hoping for a slightly more informed discussion regarding the different types of boilers?

Mike

Mike

 

[Dan Robinson]

There is a vertible encyclopedia about this on here. Try running a search and posting back wiht more specific questions.

There are as many different views abotu this as there are different boiler.

Avoid Keston and Megaflow, for oil look at Grant and Worcester Bosch - although I don't currently work on oil professionally so others will comment.

Cylinders - we use Ultrasteel or OSO unless it is a custom Copper job.

 

[gas4you]

As always I would recommend a vaillant ecotec plus system boiler coupled to an Aurostor solar unvented cylinder, if you really want to go down the solar route at a later date, if not solar then a Unistor would be best as the boiler and cylinder 'talk' to each other to give maximum efficiency. I would look at either the 300 litre aurostor or the 210 litre Unistor.

Why solar? Do you qualify for a special grant due to your sons unfortunate circumstances? If not if you want to go that route because you think you will save a lot on the heating bills forget it. In your case I would estimate around £150 per year savings.

If you want to help the planet and perhaps save a little bit then go for it.

I too am bpec solar qualified but have become so dissolussioned with the cost/pay back ratio that I am coming out of it.

I cant see why any heating engineer would be put off by a jungle of pipe work, from the sounds of it, it would probably be cheaper to rip it out and install all new

 

[sealo0]

Avoid Keston and Megaflow, for oil look at Grant and Worcester Bosch - although I don't currently work on oil professionally so others will comment.

Hi Dan Thanks for that.

Why avoid Keston? Not tooo sure why say oil. we are on gas.

Regards,

Mike

 

[sealo0]

solar route at a later date,


I cant see why any heating engineer would be put off by a jungle of pipe work, from the sounds of it, it would probably be cheaper to rip it out and install all new

Hi Dave.
Thanks for the info.

Yes the only reason with the tank was so we could do solar later. Perhaps the disinformation might have worked it's self out of the way by then & we all get a better understanding.

As to the old pipes they are going!!!

Regards

Mike

 

[ChrisR]

2KW oil filled rad

 

[sealo0]

2KW oil filled rad

??? Why?

Mike

 

[ChrisR]

??? Why?

YOU mentioned oil. Dan saw it and....

 

[kevindgas]

i can advise on boiler for you as i said we can tailor the install to suit your needs we use Vaillant as the reliability and the back up service we recieve from them is what we expect unlike some manufacturers who find it impossible to help or are very slow to respond to a call out
keston boilers are noisy just stand at the opposite end of the street you'll soon know who has a keston boiler!
we work on most makes and find Glow worm and Baxi among the worst boilers for reliability at the cheap end of the market we find ideal and halstead to be ok (have ideal myself) as i needed a cupboard fitting boiler and the ideal was the best at the time for the money i wanted to spend!

 

[Dan Robinson]

I was still have asleep and running late - and didn't read the whole sentence sorry.

Avoid keston 'cos they literally fall to peices and the customer service is shocking.

G4Y loves Vaillant - I love these guys-.

There are plenty of others, but Vaillant and Worcester Bosch are the only mainstream lot worth considering.

 

[gas4you]

Nothing wrong with WB, I just cannot stand them personally. Obviously hundreds of other installers do like them, eh Craig?

 

[clf-gas]

Nothing wrong with WB, I just cannot stand them personally. Obviously hundreds of other installers do like them, eh Craig?

Oh I do like my WB's Can't get my head round this solar lark maybe I'am blinckered