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Recommendations for boiler replacement ?

  • 03-01-2014 2:16pm
    #1
    SpaceTime
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    I'm just wondering what boiler would people suggest for an ageing Potterton Suprima Natural Gas boiler that heats a 17 radiator system. It's an open system with three zones and indirect hot water.

    It seems to have a temperature control issue which I suspect is the PCB (again) and I'm just not sure it's worth spending money on it.

    It's probably about 13-14 years old.

    It's located in a boiler house, so I'm not too worried about compact size. The main thing I want is decent controls. Ideally, I'd like one I can set the system temperature in ºC

    I find the ring of dots approach with no temperature reference a bit stupid.


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  • #2
    Egass13
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    SpaceTime wrote: »
    I'm just wondering what boiler would people suggest for an ageing Potterton Suprima Natural Gas boiler that heats a 17 radiator system. It's an open system with three zones and indirect hot water.

    It seems to have a temperature control issue which I suspect is the PCB (again) and I'm just not sure it's worth spending money on it.

    It's probably about 13-14 years old.

    It's located in a boiler house, so I'm not too worried about compact size. The main thing I want is decent controls. Ideally, I'd like one I can set the system temperature in ºC

    I find the ring of dots approach with no temperature reference a bit stupid.

    When you say temperature problem what's happening ? Could be as simple as a thermistor which cost about 20euro.


  • #3
    SpaceTime
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    It's definitely switching on and off but even at the lowest temperature setting the radiators are pretty hot. I'd estimate around 75ºC or so.

    If you turn it up any higher, it doesn't really get any hotter either, so I think there's something odd going on.

    We'd some issues with a shower pump, which resulted in the plumber fitting a cylinder stat which was unnecessary as I think the electric immersion had actually overheated the tank, not the boiler and caused cracking of plastic fittings on the flexible anti-vibration hoses on the pump.

    He drained down the system and caused a lot of airlocks which took some time so resolve.

    The system's a little bit unusual and can be a bit hard to get air locks out of sometimes due to its layout rather than anything else.

    I called a different plumber, who quoted me over €1000 to resolve these and wanted to install all sorts of magnate filters and do power flushes. The system seemed completely clean when it was drained down, so I thought it was rather unnecessary but he kept insisting, so I haven't phoned back.

    He also suggested the boiler's probably due replacement at this stage.

    If it's just a thermistor I don't really fancy spending a few grand for the hell of it.


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