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?

Any advice would be grateful.

Many thanks,

Tony.

Tony,
I just fitted a Vaillant Turbomax Plus 828E, replaced an old Potterton
conventional boiler. Been very pleased with the hot water performance for
showers (flow rate @35C temp rise 11.5 l/min). Bought it online from
discountedheating.co.uk and it was a lot less than the plumbase around the
corner. Took a bit of work to get it plumbed in as we converted the system
from a conventional indirect system with loft tank etc. but the boiler
itself is very easy to commission and we only had two small problems. The
LCD display that shows the current flow temp, etc. stopped displaying
although the boiler was functioning ok, a call to Vaillant and they sent
out an engineer under their warranty and swapped the display unit there and
then. The other issue was a split o ring in the mains water inlet valve
that must have been caught when the boiler was assembled in the factory and
just decided to let go when we were flushing the rads (lucky for me it
didn't go when we were out of the house!) and this cost 20p to get a
replacement from a local shed. If you can find someone to fit and
commission the new boiler locally I'd buy it online as it should save you a
few pennies.

Graham

"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?

Any advice would be grateful.

Many thanks,

Tony.

"Tony Walker" wrote in message
k...
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.

Tony Walker wrote:

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?

Any advice would be grateful.

Many thanks,

Tony.
I would get the fitters to buy it. If anything goes wrong you will be
in a far better position under the sales of goods act to get it sorted
by the fitters. If you can fit it yourself and just need the fitters
for commissioning it then go ahead snd buy online.

I would get the fitters to buy it. If anything goes wrong you will be
in a far better position under the sales of goods act to get it sorted
by the fitters.

OTOH, you may prefer to be in a position to sue a nationally based boiler
supplier than a fly by night fitter who will set his dogs on you if you
complain.

Christian.