Hello,
I live in a mid-terrace house which is 10 years old near West London. Our boiler needs replacing which is a Pottertron SL 15 on a S Plan system. The boiler is on the ground floor with the control/tank/expansion vessel, on the 3rd floor, we live in a townhouse.
Number of local engineers have recommended Vaillant ecoTEC Plus 415 boilers, however, my uncle from North has recommended to look at Intergas NRE OV 18
The house is well insulated and I am keen to use load compensation controllers internally. I would need three zones (2x CH and 1x HW). If I went down with a eBus or OpenTherm system, I would need to run a very long cable between the boiler and the controller, it's certainly feasible.
In my local area we don’t have any Intergas installers, however, engineers who have installed Intergas before and have said positive notes on the boiler.
Looking at the reviews on Google, a number of customers have had problems with the boilers when trying to find a service engineer when the boilers have broken down. Intergas being new to the UK market don’t have enough engineers and therefore getting an engineer to your house can sometimes take days/week.
We also have a young baby in the house and while I am keen to save money on heating, I am also concerned that if something were to go wrong with Intergas I would get the same level of response I would with Vaillant.
My concern is the advanced controllers eBus and Opentherm actually work the hype, looking on Google, a number of studies mentioned saving of around 7% on average per year, this can add up…
Personally if I didn’t learn about weather or load compensation I would have gone with the Vaillant due to the warranty of 10 years compared to Intergas of 9 and market share.
In addition, I was looking at a Tado and the EPH system for the house as it supports OpenTherm, if I went with the Vaillant I could look to use their VR33 module (but heard it would invalid date the warranty) or Vaillant own controllers but then I am not keen on the idea of being tied in...
Views and recommendations are welcome.
I live in a mid-terrace house which is 10 years old near West London. Our boiler needs replacing which is a Pottertron SL 15 on a S Plan system. The boiler is on the ground floor with the control/tank/expansion vessel, on the 3rd floor, we live in a townhouse.
Number of local engineers have recommended Vaillant ecoTEC Plus 415 boilers, however, my uncle from North has recommended to look at Intergas NRE OV 18
The house is well insulated and I am keen to use load compensation controllers internally. I would need three zones (2x CH and 1x HW). If I went down with a eBus or OpenTherm system, I would need to run a very long cable between the boiler and the controller, it's certainly feasible.
In my local area we don’t have any Intergas installers, however, engineers who have installed Intergas before and have said positive notes on the boiler.
Looking at the reviews on Google, a number of customers have had problems with the boilers when trying to find a service engineer when the boilers have broken down. Intergas being new to the UK market don’t have enough engineers and therefore getting an engineer to your house can sometimes take days/week.
We also have a young baby in the house and while I am keen to save money on heating, I am also concerned that if something were to go wrong with Intergas I would get the same level of response I would with Vaillant.
My concern is the advanced controllers eBus and Opentherm actually work the hype, looking on Google, a number of studies mentioned saving of around 7% on average per year, this can add up…
Personally if I didn’t learn about weather or load compensation I would have gone with the Vaillant due to the warranty of 10 years compared to Intergas of 9 and market share.
In addition, I was looking at a Tado and the EPH system for the house as it supports OpenTherm, if I went with the Vaillant I could look to use their VR33 module (but heard it would invalid date the warranty) or Vaillant own controllers but then I am not keen on the idea of being tied in...
Views and recommendations are welcome.
