New Gas Bolier

bkeano

Hi

Have applied for SEI grant for Boiler upgrade! Has anyone done this recently. Is it worth doing. My current bolier is over 15 yrs old and gives off very poor heating.

Thanks

shawnee

I am in a similar situation and have been approved for new boiler. I have been quoted 2800 to have the system upgraded and think I will get a grant of around 600. The upgrade is for a bigger and higher output boiler and a zone system. A friend had it installed and seems pleased with the system. The other option is to spend around 1800 and leave out the grant etc :D Am leaning towards getting the grant option.

Hell Toupee

Deffo worth doing mine is just complete and the difference in the heat output is unreal - plus the facility to heat the water direct to the cylinder cuts out the need to use the immersion heater.
I got a grant of €800 inc the €100 for the BER cert.
If you need a recommendation I would highly recommend the lads who did my house, very clean and 3 pleasant lads too.
PM me if you want contact details (They're based in Dublin)

shawnee

Thanks for the reply, I am in Limerick however, I have a plumber recommendation but was undecided which to go for.

Dub_Jim_Royle

Have been looking through this forum since Stephen's Day. Haven't found an answer to my query. Gas boiler gone since Christmas Eve, luckily we had planned to be somewhere else over Christmas.
It's the PCB that's gone.
The boiler itself is 10yrs old so we think we want to change it and get one with a decent warranty.
We are getting quotes from 2 plumbers, 1 wants to use an Ariston or Veissman, but the other wants to use a FlexiCom. Have read reviews on them all and the FlexiCom seems to get almost universal bad reviews.
Would anyone have a recommendation of any of these or any other option.

Thanks very much, Happy New Year

Micky Dolenz

Dub_Jim_Royle wrote: »

Have been looking through this forum since Stephen's Day. Haven't found an answer to my query. Gas boiler gone since Christmas Eve, luckily we had planned to be somewhere else over Christmas.
It's the PCB that's gone.
The boiler itself is 10yrs old so we think we want to change it and get one with a decent warranty.
We are getting quotes from 2 plumbers, 1 wants to use an Ariston or Veissman, but the other wants to use a FlexiCom. Have read reviews on them all and the FlexiCom seems to get almost universal bad reviews.
Would anyone have a recommendation of any of these or any other option.

Thanks very much, Happy New Year

You pay for what you get. The Gloworm is the cheapest of the three.

yoshytoshy

Flexicom is a reliable boiler and a more robust exchanger aswell.

JohnnieK

yoshytoshy wrote: »

Flexicom is a reliable boiler and a more robust exchanger aswell.

It has an aluminium silicate heat exchanger, not as good as stainless steel. The thing that saves it is the layout of the water ways though very good.

I suppose any boiler is good (on the wet side that is) on a clean heating system

yoshytoshy

JohnnieK wrote: »

It has an aluminium silicate heat exchanger, not as good as stainless steel. The thing that saves it is the layout of the water ways though very good.

I suppose any boiler is good (on the wet side that is) on a clean heating system

The smaller the area ,the greater chance dirt gets stuck. I'd prefer a larger water area in a boiler ,to heat my house. Stainless exchangers are very small.

JohnnieK

yoshytoshy wrote: »

The smaller the area ,the greater chance dirt gets stuck. I'd prefer a larger water area in a boiler ,to heat my house. Stainless exchangers are very small.

True, but the one on the Viessmann isn't.

yoshytoshy

Just to show others who don't know what a worcester looks like.

The worcester fires the flame down and heats the exchanger equally on all sides ,this to me is the best way of transferring heating to any exchanger ,because the flame is fully trapped within the drum.

The worcester drum is stainless were it covers the baffles ,so essentially one side of the exchanger is stainless.



The viessman fires sideways ,

JohnnieK

I dont know how this moved from Glow-Worm to the battle between Viessmann and Worcester. I'm not dissputing the Worcester yoshy and i have installed a few but but when I give the option between the 4 i install the most and the literature off them to my customers the majority go for the Viessmann. It may fire sideways but it's through a cylindrical burner with an even flame around the circumference of the burner thus giving an equal amount of heat to the exchanger.

yoshytoshy

I just honestly don't know how anyone can say the glow worm is a bad boiler ,I think it's fine if someone wants a better price.

The worcester exchanger is vertical so nothing can ever lodge as such.

Main gripe with the viessman is dirt lodging in the lowest part of the exchanger because it's horizontal and the same goes for any of the horziontal exchanger boilers.

Anyways thats my 2c .