Which boiler please..... Vaillant Ecotec Plus 831 or 824

NewStudent

I'm about to have central heating installed in a house I am hoping to rent out and need to decide on a boiler. Can anyone please help? Does anyone know which is better or if there are any better alternatives? Does anyone own one of these? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

gas4you

If there is a bath at the property, go with the 831.

If it only has a shower, or an electric shower and hot taps, then the 824 will be more than enough.

squeekswhenwalking

I agree, only downside with vaillant is their hopeless wait times for tech advice, boilers usually good though I prefer Worcester

BeauBelle

Hi

We had a Valliant Ecotech plus 831 installed about 3 years ago and have had no problems (touch wood!) with it. We have a 4 bed house and there is plenty of heat and hot water when we need it.

One thing we have found with it were the original dials on the front that control water and radiator tempreture were very flimsy and we had to have them repaired. Valliant customers services were great, were out within a couple of days and everything was done under warranty. We had a 2 year warranty as standard, not sure if its still the case.

Hope that helps

BB

NewStudent

Thanks everyone for your help. It is a 4 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms, so its rather large. Its also got a separate shower as well. I'm still a bit confused as to which one would be best. Thanks x

macman

2 baths and a shower? An electric shower does not count.

gas4you

I would never recommend either of these, or a combi generally, in a house of this size.

How many of you live there?

NewStudent

At the moment no one lives there. When renovations have finished I am hoping to rent it out.