"Tony Walker" wrote in message
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Hello, our Ocean Combi boiler is on it's last legs. It has being covered
by an
insurance policy from Home Service Insurance.

I have been told by the heating engineer sent by the insurance company
that
tried to fix the boiler that the Worcester 2F CDI would be the best boiler
to
replace it He also recemonded a Baxi 80 ECO and a Vaillant Turbomax.

Do you agree with his choice?

My other question is would it be better to get a heating engineer to
supply and
fit the new boiler or for me to buy the boiler mail order and then get a
someone to just fit it.

Also as I live in Preston Lancashire has anybody any recommendations as
regard
to central heating engineers in this area?

Worcester Bosch and Vaillant seem to be regarded fairly highly, if you read
the numerous boiler threads on this newsgroup. I fitted a Vaillant 828 in
2003 myself, and there were no boiler related problems ( luckily since I am
not Corgi-registered so any guarantee would probably have been disputed by
Vaillant ), nor is setting it up difficult as it is all factory adjusted. It
has worked well since, only one lockout, cause unknown, which did not recur
upon reset. The Vaillant Turbomax has a nice lcd display which tells you the
boiler loop temperature and also has fault codes etc, so it is a bit of a
boon to be able to interrogate the boiler if there is a fault. The Vaillant
also has a 'warmstart' facility whereby it keeps about 2 litres of water
warm ( if you enable it ) so that you can get hot water that little bit
quicker if you want. I think you need to buy before April this year
otherwise you will have to get a condensing boiler ( new energy efficiency
regs ), and they cost a bit more up front.

Andy.

Andy.