Is this boiler any good?

[BoltonSte]

I can get a v.v.v.v good price* on a Saunier Duval Thermaclassic F30E SB.

I currently have a baxi bahama, which although efficient, maintains this by slowing the hot water down to a trickle to heat it. The current Baxi is 10 years old so was thinking of maybe changing if the above is better, I'll be converting my celler so seems a good time to change.

Anyone in the know?

*£250 to be precise.

Ta

Ste

Never heard of it .... but 10 years is nothing for a boiler (unless you're having problems with it)

buy it, keep it incase the other one goes pop, but dont go to the effort of changing it if it aint broke?

Buy a cheap boiler from an unknown maker at your peril. I did and had quite a bit of trouble with it. Finally it packed in a couple of years ago. When? - you guessed it - right in the middle of a cold snap like this one.

Luckily I have a mate who's a gas fitter. He shuffled his jobs around and fitted me a replacement one next day. This time we got a baxi. He's been fitting them for 20 years and has hardly had any problems with 'em.

You have been warned

HTH Keith

[dirtydog]

As the saying goes you get what you pay for

saunier duval is hardly an unknown make, but would not be at the top of my list, but if the price is right? edit, you can have the most expensive boiler or the cheapest, either way does not mean you will/won't have problems, you pays your money and takes your chance, they all go wrong.

[BoltonSte]

It's only cheap because they are 'nearly new' they were fitted into new apartments in the IOM, only for the gas pressure to be too low to run them all. So they are being taken out and replaced (they've been fired up once on installation to check they work).

Bluefishman, according to the bumph I can find, these are about as efficient as my current BAXI one. What I'm really after is something that doesn't fall to a trickle when I run the hot.

What would you reccomend as a good choice for a 3bed, 4 storey terrace?

Ste

Depends where your Hot taps are in relation to the floors and the flow rate coming into your house. If you have a slow flow rate in, you will only get a slow flow out the boiler.

[BoltonSte]

It's weird though, the cold belts out. Although we do have issues with pressure when other people are using the water as it's an old row of cottages with a single supply pipe (planning on connecting to the mains at the front when I do the celler).

Here's the symptoms:

Hot water on - High flow
Hot water begins to get warm - Flow slows
Hot water not touched - Flow slows right down, flow through boiler is slowed and it stops heating, flow pics up and the cycle begins again.

It may be tap related though as neither of us seem to recall it doing it outside the kitchen. But you do have to turn the flow right down to get a good hot bath.

Ste

One of the best is Worcester Bosch - not the chepaest but good