What are these boilers like please, Ideal Icos HE18 Boiler

[ruthxxx]

Can any one tell me about them? Are they combi boilers?

Thanks

 

[ljrgas]

get a box and put a candle inside
it will last longer.

 

[ruthxxx]

Oh dear bad as that

 

[CBF]

what are Icos like ? i'll give you a clue.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Us pros will get back to you when we have finished laughing and have picked ourselves up from the floor.

 

[mickyg]

in all fairness, yes its not the greatest boiler in the world, but this being the heat only variant that ish1te released at the time, it has less to go wrong. I look after quite a few that have only had 1 or 2 breakdowns in 5-7 yrs. The main problem is the risk factor....the risk the pcb will blow(high risk and expensive(circa£300), and the risk the heat exchanger will fail(medium risk and pretty much new boiler time). ............ its a bit like buying a rubbish second hand car, if you can get a few years out of it problem free your onto a winner...but be prepared to skip it when things start going wobbly

 

[ianmcd]

they are absolute rubbish avoid like the plague

 

[woodsy882]

probaly, along with its brother the isar, the worst pair of boilers made in the last 20yrs.

 

[boilerdoktor]

not a combi but a conventional boiler, suffers probs with the pcb which retail at about £200

i don t like them

 

[engineerman]

i've worked on this boiler or years this is not like the isar at all
this is ok provided its serviced properly
a new pcb occasionally but main problem or me is connex connections on low and return pipes leak a lot
mainly system components not the boiler cause most o my calls