Worcester or Vaillant Boiler?
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I've had a quote for a replacement CH boiler & there is a choice between a Worcester Greenstar 30i or a Vaillent Ecotec Plus 831. The Vaillent is £60 more & a bit larger, but both have 7 year warranties. The water supply is hard & we don't have a water softener (they have included an inline scale reducer in the quote).
Are the two boilers much the same or does one have a better reputation than the other?
Are the two boilers much the same or does one have a better reputation than the other?
Worcester are very light and tinney latley, but have a very good foot hold in the UK being a british company (before the bosch buy out) they use aluminium heat exchangers where as Vaillant use stainless steel.
The Vaillant is a cracking boiler but not with out its issues, we have had a few chew through diverter valves and Vaillnt tried to blame the water quality but the systems were brand new and the water test came back perfect.
Id still go with Vaillant though
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GTRmad said:
Neither, Baxi with a 10 year warranty!!
A 10 year warranty is worth f
k all when Baxi take 4 days to turn up, as I'm finding out with a brand new Main water heater I've fitted for a customer. One thing I can't fault is Worcester customer services, longest a customer has waited is next day for a service call and they strive for first time repair.
OP, be warned that Vaillant parts are expensive.
Vaillant all the way. Vaillant actually design their boiler so that all the parts that need servicing or if anything needs replacing it's easy to take the boiler apart.
This will cut down on the amount of time a heating engineer is at your house and also makes their job a lot easier!
This will cut down on the amount of time a heating engineer is at your house and also makes their job a lot easier!
Simpo Two said:
Option 3 - keep the one you have?
Not really: it's a 20 year old Baxi back boiler I installed myself back in the day when you could do that sort of thing. I've already changed the cast iron heat exchanger once & I don't really want to do it again.marshall100 said:
Paying for the badge on either.
What would you suggest then? Do you know of a reliable installer in the Reading/Wokingham area who can quote?it looks like a majority vote for Vaillant then. The warranty is claimed to be 7 years parts & labour so I hope the cost of spares doesn't come into it.
Thanks to everyone for responding.
barryrs said:
Ideal & Alpha have some of the most efficient boilers (EUPD compliant) on the market and you can have the option of flue gas heat recovery built in for the same cost as a Vaillant or Bosch.
Ideal Logic + is a great boiler and they will be offering a 10 year warranty on the Vogue soon.Alphas are just gas fired sieves. IMO of course
Serviced a worcester greenstar today and the s
tty plastic flap that hides the programmer broke on me £27.00 to replace and in stock at my local spares place was told they sell a few. So i stand by my first post they are cheap tinny plastic pieces of crap on the outside
The vaillant has a metal flap that dont break.
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marshall100 said:
I work for a plumbers merchant, and Viessmann seem to be growing in popularity. I had a hardcore Worcester installer who I managed to switch and he hasn't looked back since.
Have a look at a Gloworm Boiler. We have had over 70 Glowworms installed over the past 4 years and earlier this year had 28 Viessmann's installed.
The only reason we switched was the fact they were very aggressively trying to buy in business with massive discounts.
We have just gone back to Glowrom and fitted 13 of their boilers.
Now with the 7 year Club Energy option and the 10 year and 15 year options they are as good as anyone else
Personally I think the 10 year is the best option.
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