"Doctor Evil" wrote in message
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"nemo" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if the Worcester
(Bosch) Greenstar HE Combi Boiler was made
obsolete by a new regulation which came into
force on April 1st?

It is state of the art condensing. Current model.

The boilers seem OK, except that they take ages to fill the bath up -
but
if
we should have got better ones, we should have had better ones.

You haven't stated the model number, and it appears it is a combi. Combi's
are rated on the hot water flowrate. There is a high flowrate model of
Greenstar, you obviously didn't get that one. They should have given you
all the 40kW model.

Nevertheless, it will be cheap to run.

Agreed. I've just had my first bill since it was installed and it's 1/3
down - and, because it's more convenient now, I've been using a lot more hot
water than before.

The model number is ZWB 7-25. At least I think that's it. There are some
other numbers but the label is partially obscured.

I've measured the flow and it's a bit over 2 litres per minute.

It's not hugely important because the pressure backs up enough to give a
good blast from the shower, and I prefer not to get into the bath fully
after slipping and rupturing my spleen a couple of years ago! I have a nice
shower seat that Social Services gave me so that I don't do a repeat
performance!

Another thing. At first, we were shown taps with dome-shaped thermostatic
control units for the shower. Another thing we didn't actually get. I've not
been able to spot anything similar on the web. Does anyone know what model
these might be and the manufacturer. The taps they've given us are ¼ turn
from off to full on and a bit difficult to set and I wouldn't mind splashing
out (pun intended) on one of these controllers myself.

Nemo

As I said, the thing was dome-shaped, and had a slider along the front edge
to regulate the temperature.