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Need a new boiler
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The make is a Stelrad Mexico Slimline RS 55.
So, the best option is to wait until it breaks down right?0 -
My Ideal boiler is 20 years old and still going strong, but they did go through an unreliable phase.
I'd stick with it until it packs up.That gum you like is coming back in style.0 -
I'd do afew sums before going for a new one - if it's 65% efficient and new on is 90% then you've got a potential 25% benefit. If your gas bill is £1000 now then potentially it would save £250. Installing a new one would probably be around £2.5-3k so it would take you 10 years or so to get your money back.
You would be better off making sure that you've got decent insulation around your water tank, up in the loft and do as much draft proofing that you can. Get some decent controls and set them up properly and you could probably save yourself £100+ a year on your present bill (if you did some cost saving and managed to reduce your bill by £100 or more then the payback on a new one would be even longer as perversely you save less money by getting a more efficient boiler)Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers0 -
tanyasharma wrote: »The make is a Stelrad Mexico Slimline RS 55.
So, the best option is to wait until it breaks down right?
Pretty much, although you will need to have it serviced each year to make sure it is 'safe' -any local Gas Safe registered plumber can do this but do ask for a quote before they turn up. The fact it is an old boiler is actually a good sign - it must be a long lasting design to have been going for so long. My boiler (a Glow-worm) is over 20 years old (the London contact number on the sticker on the front has the prefix 081!) and, touch wood, has NEVER needed any sort of repair at all. Old boilers are just basically huge geezers (and i don't mean Big Daddy here) with a pump attached. Very little to go wrong, unlike the sophisticated (some would say unnecessarily so) modern boilers.
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When my Gloworm boiler's external grill fell to bits years ago, gave the factory in Belper a ring and they sent me a new one by return.
They are now owned by Vaillant and still manufacture here in the East Midlands.That gum you like is coming back in style.0 -
tanyasharma wrote: »The make is a Stelrad Mexico Slimline RS 55.
So, the best option is to wait until it breaks down right?
It's about 30 years old, limited on parts and 65% effiecient. Does it take very long to heat the property up?, is it noisy and full of 30 years of scale?, do you want a new one?
Good simple old boiler but a bit of a long in the tooth and a gas guzzler.
If you wait for it to break down you may well find the timing to be inconvenient so it may be worth pre-empting that moment particularly if you are planning to do decorative work in the room / area where the boiler is currently located.0 -
You are sounding like a British Gas Maintenance engineer again, ollski lol.0
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Lol, old habits. True though.0
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I will never forgive greedy selfish "British" gas that scared my 90 year old grandmother into replacing her boiler that she never had any problems with. Then over charged her thousands to install it, installed it under her bedroom window so with the exhaust she couldn't open her window and had to call them out over a dozen times in the first year and spent her last year often in a cold house using fan heaters.
They acted as if they were the gas board and were doing her a favor and convinced her that the reliable 20 year old boiler was dangerous and wasteful.
So no don't replace it unless it's broken and beyond repair.0 -
tanyasharma wrote: »The make is a Stelrad Mexico Slimline RS 55.
So, the best option is to wait until it breaks down right?
No, service and maintain it so that it doesn't break down. Boilers are modular, almost every part can be replaced, if it's economic to do so.No free lunch, and no free laptop0
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