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Vaillant heat exchanger
I need a replacement main heat exchanger (not domestic hot water) for a
Vaillant VCW Sine 18 combi boiler (part number 061605). Best price I have seen is aroung £200 with vat and delivery from a site I found via Google. Anyone have any links to other suppliers I could try? Several sites have the part listed but seem to hint at availability being an issue. Cheers. |
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On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:57:19 +0000, Sorn wrote:
I need a replacement main heat exchanger (not domestic hot water) for a Vaillant VCW Sine 18 combi boiler (part number 061605). Best price I have seen is aroung £200 with vat and delivery from a site I found via Google. Anyone have any links to other suppliers I could try? Several sites have the part listed but seem to hint at availability being an issue. Cheers. The main heat exchanger is often the part which calls time on the life of the boiler. This boiler is probably 15 years old? However there is no reason why it would not go some more year yet _provided_ the rest of the unit is in _good_ condition. The price is plausible. A new boiler+fitting (of similar quality) would be several times the part +fitting. -- Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter. The FAQ for uk.diy is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html |
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Sorn wrote:
I need a replacement main heat exchanger (not domestic hot water) for a Vaillant VCW Sine 18 combi boiler (part number 061605). Best price I have seen is aroung £200 with vat and delivery from a site I found via Google. Anyone have any links to other suppliers I could try? Several sites have the part listed but seem to hint at availability being an issue. Cheers. Tried http://www.mjtcontrols.co.uk/ ? They gave me good service last year for the hot water flow detector. Good luck Phil -- Phil Brady Information Services University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Deiniol Deiniol Rd Bangor LL57 2UX Tel +44 (0)1248 382960 Fax +44 (0)1248 383826 |
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Thanks Ed. A while ago I posted a problem with this boiler and received
plenty of help and advice. The main problem was the fact that hot water took about 5 minutes to appear whilst the heating was on and hot water would not appear at all unless the radiator switch was in the on position. I eventually traced the fault (with the help and advice I received from this group) to a knackered wax capsule in the flow switch. Once I replaced it everything was just fine and dandy until the heate exchanger started to weep. I have now managed to get someone at work to do a solder job on the leaking area and everything is fine again. The one remaining problem is that when the domestic hot water switch is set to 'immediate' I can always get hot water but when set to 'instant' I can never get hot water. It's to much of a problem as the boiler only flashes up for a couple of seconds every now and then in 'immediate' mode. "Ed Sirett" wrote in message news On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:57:19 +0000, Sorn wrote: I need a replacement main heat exchanger (not domestic hot water) for a Vaillant VCW Sine 18 combi boiler (part number 061605). Best price I have seen is aroung £200 with vat and delivery from a site I found via Google. Anyone have any links to other suppliers I could try? Several sites have the part listed but seem to hint at availability being an issue. Cheers. The main heat exchanger is often the part which calls time on the life of the boiler. This boiler is probably 15 years old? However there is no reason why it would not go some more year yet _provided_ the rest of the unit is in _good_ condition. The price is plausible. A new boiler+fitting (of similar quality) would be several times the part +fitting. -- Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter. The FAQ for uk.diy is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html |
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"P.R.Brady" wrote in message ... Sorn wrote: I need a replacement main heat exchanger (not domestic hot water) for a Vaillant VCW Sine 18 combi boiler (part number 061605). Best price I have seen is aroung £200 with vat and delivery from a site I found via Google. Anyone have any links to other suppliers I could try? Several sites have the part listed but seem to hint at availability being an issue. Cheers. Tried http://www.mjtcontrols.co.uk/ ? They gave me good service last year for the hot water flow detector. Good luck Phil -- Phil Brady Information Services University of Wales, Bangor Adeilad Deiniol Deiniol Rd Bangor LL57 2UX Tel +44 (0)1248 382960 Fax +44 (0)1248 383826 Thanks Phil...I did have a look at their site. I have naw managed to get a repair done to the heat exchanger. |
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"Sorn" wrote in message news Thanks Ed. A while ago I posted a problem with this boiler and received plenty of help and advice. The main problem was the fact that hot water took about 5 minutes to appear whilst the heating was on and hot water would not appear at all unless the radiator switch was in the on position. I eventually traced the fault (with the help and advice I received from this group) to a knackered wax capsule in the flow switch. Once I replaced it everything was just fine and dandy until the heate exchanger started to weep. I have now managed to get someone at work to do a solder job on the leaking area and everything is fine again. The one remaining problem is that when the domestic hot water switch is set to 'immediate' I can always get hot water but when set to 'instant' I can never get hot water. It's to much of a problem as the boiler only flashes up for a couple of seconds every now and then in 'immediate' mode. "Ed Sirett" wrote in message news On Sun, 22 May 2005 19:57:19 +0000, Sorn wrote: I need a replacement main heat exchanger (not domestic hot water) for a Vaillant VCW Sine 18 combi boiler (part number 061605). Best price I have seen is aroung £200 with vat and delivery from a site I found via Google. Anyone have any links to other suppliers I could try? Several sites have the part listed but seem to hint at availability being an issue. Cheers. The main heat exchanger is often the part which calls time on the life of the boiler. This boiler is probably 15 years old? However there is no reason why it would not go some more year yet _provided_ the rest of the unit is in _good_ condition. The price is plausible. A new boiler+fitting (of similar quality) would be several times the part +fitting. -- Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter. The FAQ for uk.diy is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html Whoops...sorry about the top post. |
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