On May 3, 9:12*pm, "AL_z" wrote:
My last c/h boiler was a combi, and it broke down about once a year, on
average. Conversely, my parents had an old regular-type boiler (i.e., not a
combi) which never needed any maintenance in about 30 years. I now want to
install a c/h system in my new house. So, regarding my choice of boiler:
Considering the cost of purchasing, plus the cost of maintenance balanced
out against the difference in thermal efficiency, might I be doing myself a
favour by installing a cheap, old, reliable, standard boiler, say from a
demolition yard, rather than forking out for a modern condensing combi?


leaving aside that you probabl ywouldn't be allwoed t ofit suc ha
thing now....

When my father's coke boiler packed up, he installed an old cast iron
gas boiler that next door had just thrown out in the mid 1960s. That
was before the introduction of North Sea gas (they changed the burners
when NSG was introduced). It was still working fine when i switched
it off for th the las ttime in 2003.

Robert