On 12 Jan 2005, Set Square wrote
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Roger wrote:

I have a 20 years old Glow-worm Spacesaver wall boiler which
works fine, providing pumped CH and gravity DHW.
B/Gas 3 star engineers keep telling me the they can "no longer
guarantee to be able to source spares"...ie a sales ploy to sell
a new boiler.

Our local council are supplying discounted high efficiency
boilers as a greening initiative, but I reckon the bill will be
£2k with fitting and maybe mods to the exisiting system.
Any of you experts got any impartial advice ?
My gut instinct is to try and source spares for my existing
boiler to keep it going as long as possible.
What do you think.?

I would update the system at a time of *my* choosing, and
certainly *not* employ BG to do it.

-snip-

So it *is* worth doing - but you can choose your own time to do
it.

Agreed.

As an aside, I've just had a conversation with my boiler service guy
(very local -- I know him well, as he lives three doors away), who was
saying that from (April?), new installations will have to use
condensing boilers, and conventional boilers like mine (which is 7 or 8
years old) will no longer be installed.

He understands the efficiency reasoning behind this -- although, as he
noted, placing a condensing boiler on an old system can reduce the
efficiency to the point where it's not actually condensing -- but
mentioned that he's quite busy at the moment installing conventional
boilers for people who want to beat the deadline for the new regs.

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Cheers,
Harvey