anyone know anything about boilers?

[jayteedee]

anyone know anything about them here?

Got a suprima 30, been in since the house was built 13 years ago.

just back from my holiday the ****ing thing won't fire up. It's been a bit dodge for a while, previously if you wanted the heating to come on you had to press the reset button on it until it switched to "infrared mode" and the light on it was flickering red. Now it does bugger all in either the flickering red mode or the the over mode it switches to with the light on amber.

Not my forte at all, and don't trust anyone who's gonna come round, tut and say it'll cost me... but are we looking a small fortune to get it working?

 

[Helz]

Ahhhhhhhh, the old Potterton Suprima. My last house had one of those, the landlord denied any problem but there's a major problem, it does keep cutting out and you have to reset it. It was on Watchdog at the time and I think the company had to cave in and replace loads of the boards on any problem boilers.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=389187

 

[rallycinq]

anyone know anything about boilers?

I'm officially stilll married to an old one! it doesn't properly work either!!

Cheers

SPD

 

[balidey]

anyone know anything about boilers?

I'm officially stilll married to an old one! it doesn't properly work either!!

Cheers

SPD

I heard they need 'servicing' regularly. I get a man in to service mine. Much to dangerous to do it unless you are a professional.

 

[dannygp]

Boilers should be serviced once every 12 months and can ONLY be looked at/fixed by someone who is Corgi Registered (although its not Corgi now.) If something goes wrong you WILL get a very large ***** in your anus.

 

[tim1989]

You need to get a plumber round to have a look. No ones really going to be able to tel whats wrong with it with out looking at it. If anything big has gone wrong with it you might as well get a new boiler will cost you abit but will cost about half the money to run then your old one

 

[Hellcat]

Our old Vaillant has packed up too. Time to get a new one. Wocester Bosch me thinks.

 

[hmallett]

...you might as well get a new boiler will cost you abit but will cost about half the money to run then your old one

I'd be surprised if it was half the running costs.
My boiler is only slightly younger and was about 80-85% efficient when new. A new "A" rated boiler is about 90-92% efficient.

 

[rallycinq]

I heard they need 'servicing' regularly. I get a man in to service mine. Much to dangerous to do it unless you are a professional.

Used to enjoy the servicing, but started refusing to be serviced.

Just the same as a vacuum cleaner.

When it stops sucking, change the bag.

Cheers

SPD

 

[tim1989]

I'd be surprised if it was half the running costs.
My boiler is only slightly younger and was about 80-85% efficient when new. A new "A" rated boiler is about 90-92% efficient.

so your boiler is about 11years old? new that would not run over 65% they only started running at over 80% efficiency in about 2004 and then in 2005 they started running over 90% when condensing boilers come about