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Condensing Boilers Are Rubbish!

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  • redpete
    redpete Posts: 4,735 Forumite
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    boozercruiser wrote: »
    With hind site.....I could perhaps have had a condensing type which did not have a combined hot water tank.

    But I am where I am moaning about what I am moaning about

    So are you going to edit the thread title that calls all condensing boilers rubbish when it is this particular model that doesn't meet your needs in one respect, and delete the references to John Prescott when he had nothing to do with the recommendation of this boiler nor your choice to have it.
    loose does not rhyme with choose but lose does and is the word you meant to write.
  • boozercruiser
    boozercruiser Posts: 763 Forumite
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    edited 10 February 2012 at 7:10PM
    redpete wrote: »
    So are you going to edit the thread title that calls all condensing boilers rubbish when it is this particular model that doesn't meet your needs in one respect, and delete the references to John Prescott when he had nothing to do with the recommendation of this boiler nor your choice to have it.

    Please read... especially about Prescotts part in this particular fiasco.

    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1710224/Are-condensing-boilers-a-waste-of-money.html#ixzz1CWEyGrbk

    "In 2005, the then-deputy PM John Prescott drew up a masterplan to help Britain meet its CO2 emissions targets, as dictated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. This involved a new law ordering that all new and replacement boilers fitted to British homes — some 1.4m annually — must from that date be of the condensing type".

    Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1710224/Are-condensing-boilers-a-waste-of-money.html#ixzz1m0G042J4

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1342357/Central-heating-break-big-freeze-Heres-.html#ixzz1CWT9LDtj

    So get YOUR facts right M8.

    It is because of the likes of Prescott that one has NO CHOICE but to fit a Condensing Boiler.

    Only for it being the LAW I would not have purchased a Condensing Boiler at all...least of all Worcester.

    I took advice on the best model from the Installer.

    How on earth anyone can defend Prescott after the devastation he left behind on the road and knocking down thousands of homes which could have been refurbished I do not know.

    You are another one who's rubbish advice I can well do without...including the poster above you.:mad:
    You've heard the budget speech now you've been told. Make lots of cash then die before you're old 'Cause we're gonna Tax Gran that's what it is We're gonna Tax Gran freeze her allowances. You better hope next winter isn't cold. We're gonna Tax Gran, we're glad she's there.To subsidize the Billionaires. We're gonna Tax Gran and this is wrong!
  • paulsad
    paulsad Posts: 1,315 Forumite
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    Mine is bloody brilliant !
  • boozercruiser
    boozercruiser Posts: 763 Forumite
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    paulsad wrote: »
    Mine is bloody brilliant !

    I am so very pleased for you M8...well done.:D

    Actually, when mine is running O.K. and it has been for around 18 months now, I am more than pleased with it.

    Apart from my hot water issue:cool:
    You've heard the budget speech now you've been told. Make lots of cash then die before you're old 'Cause we're gonna Tax Gran that's what it is We're gonna Tax Gran freeze her allowances. You better hope next winter isn't cold. We're gonna Tax Gran, we're glad she's there.To subsidize the Billionaires. We're gonna Tax Gran and this is wrong!
  • paulsad
    paulsad Posts: 1,315 Forumite
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    Mine is a Bosch - I never have the pre water heating on at all - doesn't seem to make a lot of difference it heats the water pretty quick when the heating is off - the shower I fitted to it is very powerful so no problems there ... now if I could only afford to pay the bloody gas bill ... ;)
  • boozercruiser
    boozercruiser Posts: 763 Forumite
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    paulsad wrote: »
    Mine is a Bosch - I never have the pre water heating on at all - doesn't seem to make a lot of difference it heats the water pretty quick when the heating is off - the shower I fitted to it is very powerful so no problems there ... now if I could only afford to pay the bloody gas bill ... ;)

    I am with you about the Bill.

    "now if I could only afford to pay the bloody gas bill"

    Mine of course is Oil...we cannot get Gas here....and around £1600:eek: to fill my Tank...ouch!
    You've heard the budget speech now you've been told. Make lots of cash then die before you're old 'Cause we're gonna Tax Gran that's what it is We're gonna Tax Gran freeze her allowances. You better hope next winter isn't cold. We're gonna Tax Gran, we're glad she's there.To subsidize the Billionaires. We're gonna Tax Gran and this is wrong!
  • cepheus
    cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
    boozercruiser is a dedicated anti-environmenalist, hence the Prescott rant! Don't mention windfarms whatever you do!
  • boozercruiser
    boozercruiser Posts: 763 Forumite
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    Oh! no...where did cepheus spring from in this post:eek:

    This person is on my ignor list as he usually talks rap:eek I thought stalking was against the Law!:D
    You've heard the budget speech now you've been told. Make lots of cash then die before you're old 'Cause we're gonna Tax Gran that's what it is We're gonna Tax Gran freeze her allowances. You better hope next winter isn't cold. We're gonna Tax Gran, we're glad she's there.To subsidize the Billionaires. We're gonna Tax Gran and this is wrong!
  • cepheus
    cepheus Posts: 20,053 Forumite
    Obviously he doesn't completely ignore me!
  • redpete
    redpete Posts: 4,735 Forumite
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    boozercruiser wrote: »
    Please read... especially about Prescotts part in this particular fiasco.

    "In 2005, the then-deputy PM John Prescott drew up a masterplan ...involved a new law ordering that all new and replacement boilers fitted to British homes — some 1.4m annually — must from that date be of the condensing type".

    But your complaint is about the model you decided to have installed with the integrated hot water reservoir - there are many condensing boilers that are not combi boilers and many combi boilers that don't have an integrated hot water reservoir, so John Prescott's policy has nothing to do with the problem you are complaining about.

    You originally asked:
    Does anyone else have this problem who has a Condensing Boiler...or is it just Worcester Bosch?

    Do you yet accept that the problem is not because it is a condensing boiler?
    loose does not rhyme with choose but lose does and is the word you meant to write.
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