Hi,
Sorry to ask this question – I know you all must be bored with this one now…
We’ll be replacing our Combi shortly, and just looking for some opinions and thoughts and what’s good out there (and any that would be best to avoid). Here’s the story…
We currently have an old Halstead 30/90 which has been great – has been pretty reliable (considering its age) and, over the years, when it has broken down has been easy to diagnose and repair myself (great troubleshooting flowchart in the manual). My neighbour on the other hand has a boiler made, it seems, almost entirely from plastic parts and his attempts to replace parts (diverter, etc.) have been pretty unsuccessful as parts are impossible to reach and can’t be replaced without major dismantling (then they won’t snap back together without leaks).
So I guess the question is – what would be a good condensing combi to go into our 1930’s 3 bed 1 bathroom mid-terrace house (about 10 rads)? Something reliable and made of solid compression fittings I can easily repair in future if I need to (not any plastic snap-fit stuff). If it comes with good documentation and on-line info then all the better. Physical size (of the boiler itself) isn’t a great issue. Oh, I’d also like to install the timer switch on the other side of the wall (an easy exercise with the current boiler as I was able to get a £20 7-day timer from B&Q and connect it in place of the clockwork dial & pin effort in the boiler itself).
Budget is about £2K (fitted) but could stretch that a little if need be (as we’re going to have to live with it for a while – don’t want to cut any corners, so to speak).
Sorry – long question there. But any advice, help, pointers, etc. would be much appreciated as always.
Thanks,
G
Sorry to ask this question – I know you all must be bored with this one now…
We’ll be replacing our Combi shortly, and just looking for some opinions and thoughts and what’s good out there (and any that would be best to avoid). Here’s the story…
We currently have an old Halstead 30/90 which has been great – has been pretty reliable (considering its age) and, over the years, when it has broken down has been easy to diagnose and repair myself (great troubleshooting flowchart in the manual). My neighbour on the other hand has a boiler made, it seems, almost entirely from plastic parts and his attempts to replace parts (diverter, etc.) have been pretty unsuccessful as parts are impossible to reach and can’t be replaced without major dismantling (then they won’t snap back together without leaks).
So I guess the question is – what would be a good condensing combi to go into our 1930’s 3 bed 1 bathroom mid-terrace house (about 10 rads)? Something reliable and made of solid compression fittings I can easily repair in future if I need to (not any plastic snap-fit stuff). If it comes with good documentation and on-line info then all the better. Physical size (of the boiler itself) isn’t a great issue. Oh, I’d also like to install the timer switch on the other side of the wall (an easy exercise with the current boiler as I was able to get a £20 7-day timer from B&Q and connect it in place of the clockwork dial & pin effort in the boiler itself).
Budget is about £2K (fitted) but could stretch that a little if need be (as we’re going to have to live with it for a while – don’t want to cut any corners, so to speak).
Sorry – long question there. But any advice, help, pointers, etc. would be much appreciated as always.
Thanks,
G