Hello all. We have a Vaillant Ecotec Plus 937 combination boiler in our house. It was here when we moved in five years ago and is coming up for ten years old. Since we moved in, we've had it repaired four times for various things, including a dip tube replacement, replacement diverter valve, replacement DHW heat exchanger and - last winter - a replacement PCB. Most of these repairs have been via Vaillant's fixed price repair and, whilst we've always got our money's worth out of this service, we've now spent around £1000 on repairs + the costs of having it serviced most years.
Whilst it's working fine at the moment we won't be spending any more money on repairs so, next time it breaks down, we will replace it. But, when this happens, I want to be ready to go online and confidently order the right sort of replacement installation - which is where I'd appreciate advice ...
We have a four bedroom house over three floors wih ten radiators and two bathrooms - one with a bath and shower over, the second with a shower only. There's just myself, my wife and our son. The Ecotec Plus 937 has hot water storage tanks built-in and supposedly offers hot water at some 19 litres per minutes. But given we have no particular need for running both showers or bath + shower at the same time, I am not sure we need the expense or complexity of this sort of boiler in a replacement. The likes of heatable and iheat recommend regular combi boilers, with no in-built tanks, around 30kw with around 14 litres per minute hot water. Would this sort of boiler be okay for us?
Thanks in advance.
Whilst it's working fine at the moment we won't be spending any more money on repairs so, next time it breaks down, we will replace it. But, when this happens, I want to be ready to go online and confidently order the right sort of replacement installation - which is where I'd appreciate advice ...
We have a four bedroom house over three floors wih ten radiators and two bathrooms - one with a bath and shower over, the second with a shower only. There's just myself, my wife and our son. The Ecotec Plus 937 has hot water storage tanks built-in and supposedly offers hot water at some 19 litres per minutes. But given we have no particular need for running both showers or bath + shower at the same time, I am not sure we need the expense or complexity of this sort of boiler in a replacement. The likes of heatable and iheat recommend regular combi boilers, with no in-built tanks, around 30kw with around 14 litres per minute hot water. Would this sort of boiler be okay for us?
Thanks in advance.