On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:38:10 +0000, Fentoozler wrote:

"Ed Sirett" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:07:14 +0000, Fentoozler wrote:

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:51:26 -0000, "Jeff"
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jeff wrote:
FWIW - 4 bed house, 2 bathrooms + ensuite, just had a Alpha CD50
fitted,
bath filling is on a par with the old cylinder system, its wall
mounting
and stuck in the loft on the gable wall - worth a look

You must have had a very poor 'cylinder system'. A correctly designed
one
should have given twice the flow at double the temperature of an Alpha
CD50 thus filling a bath to the wanted temperature in a quarter of the
time.

Yes it was poor - old thorn boiler and cylinder in the old outside
loo/coalhouse.
I agree that any combi is not going to me a match for a modern storage
system but for a household that mainly showers the alpha is a superb one
box
solution (the mira shower is superb vs the old 9.5Kw 'leccy one)


Well, yes, one would hope.

The point is that one's perspective depends on the place from which
one starts.

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.andy


Alpha - just wait 'till it goes wrong. God awful boilers, same league as
Biasi and Ariston. I'd rather have a Plumb Center EVO.
Go Worcester or Vaillant - Rolls Royce boilers with customer service and
technical support to match. Glowworm or Baxi also at a push.

Baxi must have improved somewhat since the Barcelona?



If you have two or more bathrooms/shower rooms, I strongly recommend
installing an electric shower in one of them (the most infrequesntly
used)
if you plump for a combi. One day the diverter valve or flow switch will
malfunction in your boiler and you'll have bugger all hot water until it
gets repaired.

Agreed.

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They have - many recent boilers designed with the Service Engineer in mind.

Um... You could argue that the Barcelona was designed with the Service
Engineer in mind...


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Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
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