Favorite Boilers?

[Koogatubac]

After going off worcesters (view my topic in gas safe engineers section)

Whats every1's favourite to fit regarding installation, reliability, engineer friendly

Ideal logics i would say are the best regarding installation and engineer friendly...

Any views??

 

[Koogatubac]

Share you pictures guys

 

[LPC]

Snap? Finished this one yesterday. Backboiler out, 29CDi Classic in over the other side of the house. I generally fit Worcesters or Vaillants. I've got a Vaillant in my own house and always will, but Worcesters are much nicer to fit. Not looking forward to repairing them in 15 years though!

 

[Dotty]

I love these bad boys



4,000kw of serious dual fuel grunt!

 

[gassafe]

Nice work 🙂

never seen saddle clips used much tho... Bet there fiddily! Talons hold the pipework solid plus only one screw per clip 🙂 plus pipe is not rubbing wall.

stick with the best... Worcester Bosch... The condense fill peed you off today, but just turn it off in installer mode!

 

[PlumbersMate]

Am I right to think worcesters are reliable but when they do break are a pig to work on?

 

[Destroyer2813]

Am I right to think worcesters are reliable but when they do break are a pig to work on?

Where you been hiding

 

[PlumbersMate]

Been working for a change ain't I lol moved house and been hitting the gym so just been browsing very rarely tbh. How's it going pal you busy?

 

[Kyle87]

These pics are very nice but I'd love to see 2" lower then these pics and I bet there's spaghetti junction of old pipework crossing over each other lol

 

[Atouchofgas]

Nice job guys. Lpc I hope that's a unswitched socket! Lol

 

[Destroyer2813]

Been working for a change ain't I lol moved house and been hitting the gym so just been browsing very rarely tbh. How's it going pal you busy?

Yeah just a tad, new baby, doing up a house and running a business as well

 

[PlumbersMate]

Yeah just a tad, new baby, doing up a house and running a business as well

Congrats on the new baby, good to hear people busy too

 

[Destroyer2813]

I only fit Worcesters never had a problem with em

 

[Destroyer2813]

You still working for bg

 

[Ermintrude]

Am I right to think worcesters are reliable but when they do break are a pig to work on?

They are horrible to repair and just massive lumps of plastic horribleness!

 

[LPC]

These pics are very nice but I'd love to see 2" lower then these pics and I bet there's spaghetti junction of old pipework crossing over each other lol

Nah straight down into the boards as it pretty much a re-pipe.

 

[LPC]

Nice job guys. Lpc I hope that's a unswitched socket! Lol

It's a plug socket! Works for me!

 

[Koogatubac]

Yeah mine was a 34kw CDi, they do look good boilers but im just peed off with this one and i think ive finally had enuff of worcester... I know valiant and viesmann have good reputations. Any1 got pics of their installs?

Regarding Worcester's, their not bad to fit, just the 15-20min self set up mode is a absolute joke! Rang worcester technical today and rang again to get 2nd opinion to make sure the other guy werent telling porkies and he said that turning off the self set up mode was 'dangerous' for the boiler...

 

[Koogatubac]

Nice work 🙂

never seen saddle clips used much tho... Bet there fiddily! Talons hold the pipework solid plus only one screw per clip 🙂 plus pipe is not rubbing wall.

stick with the best... Worcester Bosch... The condense fill peed you off today, but just turn it off in installer mode!

Working for this guy now all he likes is strictly copper inc the clips, loves to see bends and all the old fashioned ways of plumbing.

Do you know how to turn off this, i did get told twice but my memory is kind of a joke at the moment lol

 

[Ermintrude]

Keep meaning to take one but haven't done a nice job yet,........,

 

[Ray Stafford]

The best ones are those that fly out the door.

The worst ones are the ones that stick on the shelf.

🙂

 

[tamz]

Nice work 🙂

never seen saddle clips used much tho... Bet there fiddily! Talons hold the pipework solid plus only one screw per clip 🙂 plus pipe is not rubbing wall.

stick with the best... Worcester Bosch... The condense fill peed you off today, but just turn it off in installer mode!

I thought they were holderbats.

 

[Koogatubac]

An't a worcester member/staff on these forums? Hope he sees all this and responds on these topics.
Gas man your into baxi's an't you?

 

[PlumbersMate]

You still working for bg

Yeh bored as sin already though if I'm honest. But I'm torn, the perks are great, haven't bought diesel for 3 months, getting paid holidays etc

 

[Ermintrude]

We fit lots of Baxi, ideal and valliant. In that order . Have a working vogue in one if shops will take pic.

 

[Ray Stafford]

In order of our customers preference:

1) Worcester by a nose from
2) Vaillant

Both do twice as many as next nearest rival which is

3) Ideal

Then another gap and clustered together:

4) Glowworm
5) Baxi
6) Main

 

[Mike Jackson]

Intergas, ideal independent for budget combis and main HE for budget heat only. Will fit Worcester if the customer wants but don't like the way they run their installer scheme.

 

[Destroyer2813]

Yeh bored as sin already though if I'm honest. But I'm torn, the perks are great, haven't bought diesel for 3 months, getting paid holidays etc

They gonna put you through your gas or you stuck on wetside ?. Something must have made you go employed stick it out cor another 3 months and see can always go back se if u can get the work to survive

 

[Kyle87]

Lots and lots of ideal love on this forum.

My gas man has a vendetta against ideal as he worked for a lot of social housing etc and knows the isar pretty well.

I'm trying to convince him to give the logic plus a go. He's a Worcester cdi lover. I've fitted a couple with him and I like the solid bracket.
Fitted a ferroli and a Ariston and I wouldn't hang a coat on the supplied bracket if I had my way.

So I'm going to wait until I've got him onto one of my installs and then he will have no choice in the boiler

 

[PlumbersMate]

They gonna put you through your gas or you stuck on wetside ?. Something must have made you go employed stick it out cor another 3 months and see can always go back se if u can get the work to survive

Tbh always been busy enough on my own, but not rich just steady with crazy weeks now n then, but yeh only applied by chance and when it got offered it was too good to turn down and I do like the stability, just makes me feel ill the amount I earn my governor in one week! Lol

we had a meeting about 2 weeks ago where they said we will be taking gas work of BG the problem is there's nobody on the firm who is gas so they will need to employ some straight up rather than train in house and I can't see them paying me to go out with someone else all the time tbh, although when he first mentioned he mentioned me straight away as I'm the only one on the firm who's even done any gas training at all so I'm holding hope still

 

[Ray Stafford]

Lots and lots of ideal love on this forum.

In the last 30 months, Ideal have doubled their market share. Almost all at the expense of Baxi, Main and Glowworm.

 

[Ermintrude]

In the last 30 months, Ideal have doubled their market share. Almost all at the expense of Baxi, Main and Glowworm.

Probably due to the GA range

 

[vern]

In the last 30 months, Ideal have doubled their market share. Almost all at the expense of Baxi, Main and Glowworm.

They have had to Ray, sink or swim, they have all the Vaillant poached staff to pay also lol, they offered me free Tf1's to ditch WB, they are doing road shows also, to promote the vogue giving away filters to everyone

 

[vern]

Probably due to the GA range

Lol spot on, and heat team blaming the water quality even on a week old flushed system, to wriggle the warranty which was the gas valve lol

 

[Ermintrude]

Flue is carp. Made by mffi? Holland same as valliant group? Like cutting tinfoil with a hacksaw and trying not to crease it! Always insist on telescopic flue!