Central Heating boiler

[Dilbert]

We've had a Greenstar for 6 years, no problems apart from the condensor pipe freezing during that extreme cold spell we had earlier in the year, but that was sorted out easily enough, and would have happeded to any boiler. Have it serviced once a year - £20 or so.

I know a couple of people who have had Worcestor Boilers for donkeys years and had no problems.

 

[Globalti]

We've had a Greenstar for 6 years, no problems apart from the condensor pipe freezing during that extreme cold spell we had earlier in the year, but that was sorted out easily enough, and would have happeded to any boiler.

Not if the installer routed the condensate drain indoors.

 

[goo_mason]

Not if the installer routed the condensate drain indoors.

I had that problem. However, the guy who came back to check it out was the guy who'd originally come in and quoted me for the work (local company I'd used for servicing my existing boiler at that point). He went back and had serious words with the young guys who'd installed it the year before, as they'd not routed the condensate pipe indoors as he'd factored into the quote price.

He came back himself and over two visits replumbed it to run across my hall, into the bathroom, in under the shower and out to the drainage pipe beneath my bath. Took him about 6hrs in total (lots of drilling through thick, stone walls and cutting pipework to run unobtrusively around the hall wall), and I wasn't charged. He did it so well that all I had to do was put the tiles back on the front of the shower base and cut one to fit around the pipe. No other mess at all.

That's what I call service.

For those in the Edinburgh area, the company is 'Contract Heating'. Been using them for almost 12 years and they're excellent.

(Additionally, they were over a grand cheaper than the price I was quoted by British Gas - and BG wanted to rip up my hall and bathroom flooring to route the condensate pipework, which would have set me back another few grand having that all replaced).

 

[rodgy-dodge]

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We've just had a quote for upgrading our central heating, and our (very trustworthy) gas man has recommended a Worcester Greenstar 30SI boiler.

Anyone got one? Comments?
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ours is a worcester / bosch greenstar 28 right size for a three bedroom semi had it installed in February this year instantly saw the difference with the gas bills. We did have a problem with the Fan after about three months it just stopped working. We thought it may have over heated with the hot weather at the time but the engineer said it had been fitted with the wrong size fan! just something to check out when getting it installed! it was fixed within 24hrs under the gauantee
really pleased we did our research gets a good write up and rating

 

[Dilbert]

Not if the installer routed the condensate drain indoors.

Yes, although in fairness it was one night in six years and I'm not sure how they would have been able to route it indoors TBH as our kitchen floor is concrete. Point is it was not the boilers fault.