Best combi boiler for reliability and warranty

[Ray Stafford]

What is uk leading manufacturer?

If you mean biggest selling, the answer is Worcester, by quite a large margin.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

If you mean biggest selling, the answer is Worcester, by quite a large margin.

but if you don't want it to leak,blow up or melt or cost a arm and a leg like rip off vailant(yes they are taking the proverbial on spare parts prices) Baxi hea all the way

 

[TBServices]

but if you don't want it to leak,blow up or melt or cost a arm and a leg like rip off vailant(yes they are taking the proverbial on spare parts prices) Baxi hea all the way

Lie. If it's a baxi it will DEFINITELY leak. If only from the HW thermistor

 

[dancinplumba]

Lie. If it's a baxi it will DEFINITELY leak. If only from the HW thermistor

Sad, but true

 

[Ermintrude]

When fitting remove fiber washer and fit a alu Vokera one.

 

[gassafe]

All boilers leak, its a fact of life... There are just too many joints inside of them! All cars breakdown too, even the mercs & bmw's...

Any boiler will suffice, just have it installed correctly on to a clean system with good quality inhibitor... The rest is up to the gods...

 

[RGII79]

Baxi neta tec combi ga

its a beast

 

[lame plumber]

If you mean biggest selling, the answer is Worcester, by quite a large margin.

trabants were a high volume car once, didnt make them any good 🙂

 

[Ray Stafford]

trabants were a high volume car once, didnt make them any good 🙂

True. But that was in a closed market, without free competition.

Worcester have been market leader in the UK for well over a decade, against all comers. You don't have to like them. You don't have to buy them. But if you pretend that they are not the biggest swinging dick on the block, then you are just fooling yourself.

 

[lame plumber]

they are going to do a tescos soon, the markets saturated and theyll only realise to late, same as ford and leyland did in the uk, and toyota and others moved in and proved quality counts for everything.

 

[gasmanrob]

Best value for money is the duotec HE A. When you take into account

purchase price, spare parts, reliability, ease of use and customer controls, in the event it does break.... It's easy to work on with plenty of room to access everything so labor time is reduced and so is any repair bill. Plus you do get a long warranty, and it has the vaillant heat exchanger.

pound for pound the best value combination boiler.

That's my opinion and I'm sticking too it..... Have fitted 3 in the last 2 weeks and number 4 goes in tomorrow number 5 starts Monday

 

[RGII79]

Worcester have been market leader in the UK for well over a decade, against all comers. You don't have to like them. You don't have to buy them. But if you pretend that they are not the biggest swinging dick on the block, then you are just fooling yourself.

more plastic and orings than anything else

 

[gasmanrob]

I have to say I still have a few sine's on the service books still with the original heat exchanger and gas valves now there's a boiler!

 

[Ray Stafford]

I have to say I still have a few sine's on the service books still with the original heat exchanger and gas valves now there's a boiler!

Yep, one of the all time classics. Over engineered, but in a good way.

 

[IDCHAPPY]

I got a sime format 100c in my flat, I like the old girl 🙂

 

[Alpha man]

We now know you've worked on Alpha boilers, because your re come ding an ideal over your name sake!

Dare I say it, I prefer Ideal over the latest Alpha.

 

[hammers4spanner]

If you mean biggest selling, the answer is Worcester, by quite a large margin.

funny that plumb center tell me its ideal logic

 

[Ray Stafford]

funny that plumb center tell me its ideal logic

Not by a long chalk.

Its possible that the Ideal Logic boiler (and all its derivatives) are the biggest selling single platform, but overall, Worcester have significantly more market share than Ideal - even after factoring in Ideal's OEM business. Vaillant would be next then Ideal and BDR jostling for 3rd place.

 

[alltec]

Thanks for all the advice - seems like the warranty is likely to be wiggled out of, and most of all avoid the Worcester.

 

[alltec]

Doesnt matter how reliable it is, you're getting it for free, you have 3 grand saved to chuck at it in repairs.

wanting the world for free?

Well surely if you were in my shoes you'd want the most reliable boiler available to save on future repairs, irrespective if you've paid for the initial price or not, especially when I have a very reliable 30 year old floor standing boiler. I'm obviously not working now due to economic climate, but while I was working I would have paid for 10 boiler installations each year in tax - so I count this as just taking back some of the money the government has taken from me (which is how the system is supposed to work, you contribute and get something back on hard times).