attention Gas Fitters and Heating Engineers

roddydogs

keystone wrote: »

Stop it! This thread is FIVE years old and so is the pathetic EU dictat.

Cheers

Sorry didnt notice

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but were condensing boilers available in 1997?

fluffymuffy

roddydogs wrote: »

Sorry didnt notice

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but were condensing boilers available in 1997?

We bought a Vailant condensing boiler in April 1996. It was still working fine when we moved out in 2009.

Canucklehead

fluffymuffy wrote: »

We bought a Vailant condensing boiler in April 1996. It was still working fine when we moved out in 2009.

Hi

You must be mistaken! Everybody knows they only last 8 years maximum:D so says roddydogs.

Maybe there should be more posts like fluffymuffy's to balance the 'discussion'


GSR.

roddydogs

So how long do you reckon, if your the "Expert" ? whats your experience?. Im Just passing on what my Boiler Service man told me.

heating-eng

if you fit a quality boiler , flush the system and fit a filter (magnaclean) then i would hope that a new boiler would last 15 years . but normally they do not get flushed correctly ,

rockin_plumber

roddydogs wrote: »

Sorry didnt notice

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but were condensing boilers available in 1997?

Archie Kidd was supplying them back in 1982, I do believe they were the first condensing boilers available, obviously a bit big for the average size house but the very beginings of what we see today:T

They arent the best looking things though or the quietest so would be best in a dedicated plant room not in the kitchen.

And many are going longer than any of these modern boilers ever will, our company has fitted quite a few of them and looked after properly will go on and on, plus there are no technical electric bits or sensors to go wrong!!

http://www.hwch.co.uk/kidd.html

Canucklehead

roddydogs wrote: »

So how long do you reckon, if your the "Expert" ? whats your experience?. Im Just passing on what my Boiler Service man told me.

Hi

If I came round and told you they should /would last 15-20 years would you quote me in the same way you have quoted your Boiler Service man?

GSR

heating-eng

Canucklehead wrote: »

Hi

If I came round and told you they should /would last 15-20 years would you quote me in the same way you have quoted your Boiler Service man?

GSR

to be honest most of the time when people do change boilers that are 5/10 years old it is because they are sick of them breaking down ...

the boiler could of still gone on the last 15 years

i once changed a boiler that was one year old ......

roddydogs

Canucklehead wrote: »

Hi

If I came round and told you they should /would last 15-20 years would you quote me in the same way you have quoted your Boiler Service man?

GSR

Why dont you answer my question, instead of ducking it?

Chippy_Minton_2

roddydogs wrote: »

So how long do you reckon, if your the "Expert" ? whats your experience?. Im Just passing on what my Boiler Service man told me.

One born every minute.

I bet you have a new boiler fitted every five years.:rotfl: