gas condensing combi fitting, rough estimate for labour, midlands area.

redboy1

Thanks for the reviews on the viessmann boilers but on the same site there seems to be a lot more bad reviews for the bosh, for example

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 04/10/2011

"Worcester Bosch Greenstar FS42Cdi Regular"

I have had this boiler for 29months, no wonder the manufacturers give 24months guarantee. It was all fine up to now. Everything went wrong with this boiler..... I have to replace new condensing pump (cost £290.00 plus labour £150.00=£440.00) new thermo-switch, door seal, and another part (cost £40.00 plus labour £75.00= £115.00) Now PCB (£102.00 plus labour £150.00=£252) Total of £807.00. Original cost of the boiler was £1499.00! I am disappointed with the boiler and the expensive...

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 06/05/2011

I had a new boiler from WB just over 4 years ago. It was a 40kw condensing boiler. We have had a lot of problems with the electronics and today the boiler was condemned by a heating engineer. It had leaked, and corroded, and broke the seals on the boiler so it was leaking carbon monoxide. I now have to have a new boiler (from another manufacturer, of course). All very disappointing and expensive, and I would not recommend this boiler to anyone....

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 13/02/2011

nothing but trouble. packs in on a regular basis no matter what the weather or settings used. avoid like the plague....

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 22/12/2010

very poor product from a well known company will never touch a b...dy worcester just had circuit board £130 on insulation plumber found the usual fault of a copper pipe thats fitted to a plastic valve this has worn threads and is leaking its t..ts off £100 ,looked at other pipes and found another leaky pipe hence the water pressure problem from day one when this was fitted by british gas .Last year they were called out for boken rubber pipe another £120 + and another £120 for non start problem last year so in total in 4 years alot spent,now this dilema has happened 3 days to xmas NO HOT WATER NO heating AND now skint due to NOW REPLACING THIS piece of scrap with something more reliable...what company uses brass onto plastic valves...WORCESTER 240CDI 4YEARS OLD ..do not buy A WORCESTER it will cost YOU in the end


Written on: 13/12/2010

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
I have been an oftec registered oil engieer for 35 years and the Bosch Greenstar range is the first boiler that ive ever refused to service.I recommend customers get Bosch to service them. My reasons are in my opinion the design of the boiler is such that corrosion is affecting the whole boiler to the extent that i judge that within 5 years the boiler may need replacing.By getting Bosch to do the servicing maybe they will have to stand by their product. The overall design has taken boiler servicing back 30 years.WARMFRONT seem to have a fixation on fitting this horrible boiler.Iam not the only engineer refusing to service these boilers Beware before you buy.

Etc, Etc

redboy1

you wont find a lot of good reviews on things as people tend to only post a review when something goes wrong or breaks.

After reading up and doing a bit of research on the viessmann's it seems the old 100 series had a few problems, they stopped being manufactured in 2008 and the new series are a lot more reliable.

I will let you all know how it goes when fitted.

Another question is how much water do these chuck out when condensing ?
I have an acko drain running down the side of my house which just empty,s into the ground. Were going to put the water dispensing pipe into this and see how it goes.



The offending culprit

heating-eng

redboy1 wrote: »

Thanks for the reviews on the viessmann boilers but on the same site there seems to be a lot more bad reviews for the bosh, for example

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 04/10/2011

"Worcester Bosch Greenstar FS42Cdi Regular"

I have had this boiler for 29months, no wonder the manufacturers give 24months guarantee. It was all fine up to now. Everything went wrong with this boiler..... I have to replace new condensing pump (cost £290.00 plus labour £150.00=£440.00) new thermo-switch, door seal, and another part (cost £40.00 plus labour £75.00= £115.00) Now PCB (£102.00 plus labour £150.00=£252) Total of £807.00. Original cost of the boiler was £1499.00! I am disappointed with the boiler and the expensive...

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 06/05/2011

I had a new boiler from WB just over 4 years ago. It was a 40kw condensing boiler. We have had a lot of problems with the electronics and today the boiler was condemned by a heating engineer. It had leaked, and corroded, and broke the seals on the boiler so it was leaking carbon monoxide. I now have to have a new boiler (from another manufacturer, of course). All very disappointing and expensive, and I would not recommend this boiler to anyone....

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 13/02/2011

nothing but trouble. packs in on a regular basis no matter what the weather or settings used. avoid like the plague....

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
★☆☆☆☆
Written on: 22/12/2010

very poor product from a well known company will never touch a b...dy worcester just had circuit board £130 on insulation plumber found the usual fault of a copper pipe thats fitted to a plastic valve this has worn threads and is leaking its t..ts off £100 ,looked at other pipes and found another leaky pipe hence the water pressure problem from day one when this was fitted by british gas .Last year they were called out for boken rubber pipe another £120 + and another £120 for non start problem last year so in total in 4 years alot spent,now this dilema has happened 3 days to xmas NO HOT WATER NO heating AND now skint due to NOW REPLACING THIS piece of scrap with something more reliable...what company uses brass onto plastic valves...WORCESTER 240CDI 4YEARS OLD ..do not buy A WORCESTER it will cost YOU in the end


Written on: 13/12/2010

Review of Worcester Bosch Boiler
I have been an oftec registered oil engieer for 35 years and the Bosch Greenstar range is the first boiler that ive ever refused to service.I recommend customers get Bosch to service them. My reasons are in my opinion the design of the boiler is such that corrosion is affecting the whole boiler to the extent that i judge that within 5 years the boiler may need replacing.By getting Bosch to do the servicing maybe they will have to stand by their product. The overall design has taken boiler servicing back 30 years.WARMFRONT seem to have a fixation on fitting this horrible boiler.Iam not the only engineer refusing to service these boilers Beware before you buy.

Etc, Etc

I just used them as example, most manufactures have there own engineers if things go wrong, viessmann use local plumbers, not good if you fall out with them.
My advice is not to buy one , but you take your chances.
Good luck.

redboy1

All Done Thanks to everyone's input.
Pleased with the job, he power flushed it twice with chemicals but the system was quite clean really, He fitted one of them magnet filter things, put some chemical into the CH when he filled it and fitted a programmable stat.

Few pics, just got to decorate now