New boiler problems ➖please help

AppleDap

Hi
I'm having a new boiler put in and it's been recommended to have magna clean. My CH is approx 20 years old. Now I'm on a really tight budget. The combi boiler quote is for £1410 with magna clean an optional extra of £90 and also an RF wireless room thermostat an optional extra also of £90.
My max budget at the moment is £1500 so I can only afford to have one of them. I would prefer to have a thermostat but the magna clean is recommend to protect the system.
What do you think ?

Farway

If your CH is 20 years old your installer should have included powerflush, have they?

Other wise the built up sludge in the CH pipes & rads will soon clog up your brand new boiler

I would go for magna clean, a bog standard, wired, programmable thermostat is fine, and in some houses the RF ones just do not work, depending on house layout & construction

StuC75

Can you not stretch the extra £90? or see what they would be installing otherwise \ if one could be retrospectively fitted when you could afford...

Magnaclean is good idea as using the existing rads & pipework - so reduces risk of sludge getting back to the new boiler...

Wireless room stat is good as it helps to get a better gauge of how you want the rooms to be balanced out - is the wall the right place to measure the room temp to gauge when heating should cut off - instead I have mine on unit at side or even take upstairs on a night if want to nudge the heating through the night \ early morning... wired sensors are so much more limited in usefulness..

This can save money in the long run in that the heating isn't running when not needed (or too warm in other areas).. can use the trv's to then adjust each room..

C_Mababejive

If you have to choose,choose the magnaclean...

matelodave

£90 is a helluva lot of money for a wireless programmable thermostat.


Assuming that you were going to have a stat installed anyway, lets say £10 plus installation, something like the Salus Programmable stat http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/300785901570?limghlpsr=true&lpid=102&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=102 will cost you about £40-50 plus installation. So the cost of the programmable one should only be about £30- £40 extra.


It's still got to be installed and as it doesn't need any wiring around the house like a wired in one it should actually cost a lot less to install. So it shouldn't really cost you much extra if anything at all. You could always do it yourself - it's not difficult

Dieselman

My rf stat was £35.00

Have the Magnaclean aswell but didn't need a power flush again my old one was 20 years old.

Shop around for more quotes.:D

AppleDap

Hi
Thank you for all your replies. I'm sorry I haven't been on to thank you all earlier but I've had a lot of issues to deal with.
I went for the magna clean and a Baxi Duo Tec 28 HE boiler and had it installed just before xmas. I went with a company who is quite big in my area and have a lot of contracts with local goventment etc as I thought it would be better than for instance a one man band outfit.

I think I've made a big mistake as everything's gone wrong.

The day is was installed they left before testing it and just turned it on and left. they left my bathroom (where the boiler is) in a terrible mess. They took out my bath and toilet to renew some pipes and didn't put them back properly and had water leaking from the toilet and the seal not put back on the bath properly (along with a catalogue of other things).
The next morning I discovered a drip coming from the underside if the boiler plus the pressure had gone down to zero and I had to repressurise the boiler.
I called in the morning and they came out late afternoon, and they didn't do anything, sid I'd imagined the drip. They eventually came last week, twice, and sorted out the leaky toilet and bath and a few other things, as they said there were a few pipes leaking. They also said that they had sorted out the leak on the boiler, but it's still dripping and the pressure still falls.

I'm getting really fed up now. The drip is underneath on the left side, it seems to be coming from the oval shaped hole in the boiler. When the heating is on it doesn't drip, when its off it does. I wake up in the morning to a small pool of water.

Does anyone know what is causing this ? I am being pressurised to pay for the boiler which I'm not happy to do until its resolved.

It has taken a lot for me to get this money together for a boiler, I was without one for 2 years before this, as my old one broke down December 27th 2011, and I don't want to pay for one not working properly.

Any advice would be appreciated, many thanks.

macman

It's the installer's problem, not yours. Don't make the final payment until they sort it. Give them a deadline. If they refuse to come out then get the manufacturer to fix it under warranty (assuming the installer has properly reg'd it). Did they properly complete the Benchmark paperwork and hand it to you?

AppleDap

Hi macman, thank you for your reply. What's the Benchmark paperwork? I was given the instruction manual and a gas safe certificate.

macman

Look at the back of the manual, they are supposed to fill in the form, and you are supposed to sign it.
Have they reg'd the boiler?

AppleDap

macman wrote: »

Look at the back of the manual, they are supposed to fill in the form, and you are supposed to sign it.
Have they reg'd the boiler?

Thanks, I've just found it at the back of the instruction book and it has been filled in, it's the first time I've noticed it. He's even ticked that he's explained it to me !
What do you think can be causing the drip ? It seems to be coming from inside the boiler on the left side and not from the pipes leading into it.