G
Goldspoon
Hi all,
Present boiler appears to be ready for the knackers yard. It's a Gloworm Xtrafast 120 and has caused much irritation and misery this last year. Basically red lights flash every day and it keeps tripping out. Engineers (various) have cost over £300 this last year. A few days ago water start hissing out of a black plastic fitting. Engineer says part is £100 plus £50 to fit it but he says something else is also wrong and he cannot guarantee getting it going. So we pay upfront the £150 as "he cannot risk using his money". He says we are wasting our time with this boiler.
He has quoted £1300 to fit a new 30KW boiler (says it's a special price for me and he is doing a similar one for £1900 somewhere else). I have no idea at this stage of make or model and I'd certainly be researching further if I was to go ahead (which is not an option at moment due to being skint).
B&Q sell a 24KW boiler for £299. I can get it fitted at zero cost. It's a a Garda HE24 condensing boiler 90.754 BTU Flow rate 10.1 litres per minute. Now to me all I know this is going to be a cheap boiler and one get what one pays for. But... we are skint (saving to pay a tax bill end of Jan) and to be honest, at that price, I am happy if it lasts a couple of years.
Am I being foolish to fit it? Anybody know anything about these boilers?
Alternative is using electric heaters (we have 3) and joining the health club across the road for showers and using the kettle to provide washing up water.
House is two storey: 9 rads and two people living in it. Only one bath OR one shower running at one time.
Present boiler appears to be ready for the knackers yard. It's a Gloworm Xtrafast 120 and has caused much irritation and misery this last year. Basically red lights flash every day and it keeps tripping out. Engineers (various) have cost over £300 this last year. A few days ago water start hissing out of a black plastic fitting. Engineer says part is £100 plus £50 to fit it but he says something else is also wrong and he cannot guarantee getting it going. So we pay upfront the £150 as "he cannot risk using his money". He says we are wasting our time with this boiler.
He has quoted £1300 to fit a new 30KW boiler (says it's a special price for me and he is doing a similar one for £1900 somewhere else). I have no idea at this stage of make or model and I'd certainly be researching further if I was to go ahead (which is not an option at moment due to being skint).
B&Q sell a 24KW boiler for £299. I can get it fitted at zero cost. It's a a Garda HE24 condensing boiler 90.754 BTU Flow rate 10.1 litres per minute. Now to me all I know this is going to be a cheap boiler and one get what one pays for. But... we are skint (saving to pay a tax bill end of Jan) and to be honest, at that price, I am happy if it lasts a couple of years.
Am I being foolish to fit it? Anybody know anything about these boilers?
Alternative is using electric heaters (we have 3) and joining the health club across the road for showers and using the kettle to provide washing up water.
House is two storey: 9 rads and two people living in it. Only one bath OR one shower running at one time.
