Boiler Replacement Advice Worcester or Vaillant ?

[sjaglin]

Well nows your chance to go pull them and put in some dinky new worcesters

Hi Amy,

You mentioned earlier that you bough a boiler flue etc, can you advise me on who installed it and of a range of price for an installed boiler, we currently have a potterton Prima F 30 which I intend to have replaced soon,

Cheers, love the new photo!

Stef
 

[Amy]

Yo Stef

I bought it, I installed it.
 Glad you reminded me cos i need to order another this morning for next mondays job.

As for installation costs, all depends on the usual criteria like can it go in the same place as the existing boiler (flue position is important factor) is the gas supply 22mm, is there physical space to put it there, where will the condensate drain to, is it replacing a combi or system and how much work to alter pipework if needed, what the quality of the tea is like cos i cant drink p**. Must be like army tea, proper thick and strong, and how much the customer wants to hang about and ask stupid questions and generally hinder the progress.

[sjaglin]

Good good, sorry I didn't realise you were an installer, we are in Bristol so I guess I'll try to get a few quotes...

Have a nice tea, I'll go for the coffee, the one where the spoon stands in it!

Stef

[Amy]

Coffee is poison

stains my pearly whites too. And red wine. 

[sjaglin]

Hugh, now you tell me, I've been using both since  ummm a long time. I will still go and fire my kelly kettle and get my second morning pint of strong stuff! Then I'll rinse me teeth with white wine...

 

[sjaglin]

Coming back to boilers, there is 2 of us in a 3 bedrooms house and 1 bathroom. We already have solar tubes for the hot water. Looking at the Worcester site, it seem that the greenstar 12 Ri seems fine for us.

What does it mean when they say it's solar compliant?
Is this sufficient or is it better to go bigger?

Thanks for your advice,

Stef

[insolare]

Is this sufficient or is it better to go bigger?

How long is a piece of string? Without doing the proper calculations it's impossible to say but i'd hazhard a guess on it being at the very bottom end of your requirements. Sounds like you have a similar arrangement to me and I went for an 18kW boiler. I have double glazing, 430mm of loft insulation and cavity wall insulation. I'd pay a bit extra (£70 ish) and go for the bigger 18Ri. If it's too big it will modulate down anyway.
Mine feeds a store so just runs flat out until it's full and gives me a faster recovery.

[sjaglin]

Cheers, I'll follow that advice!

Stef