Valiant VKS76E in Wilmslow area

[zx1200r]

Hi all, newcomer to the forum here. We have the above boiler and recently come winter it starts playing up. 3yrs ago it was a circuit board which took british gas from November to Feb to aquire and fit. The year after another problem. Last winter it behaved itself but if I remember right it wasn't a bad winter just miserable. Anyway, for the last 5 years or so BG have been telling us it needs replacing and now I'm inclined to agree. As you might imagine info isn't easy to come by on this unit so I was wondering if any of you good people could help as I suppose something of a similar capacity will be necessary. The system is open-vent as I understand it with a header tank, 18 radiators (almost all doubles) and an overly large probably primatic (I'm told) cylinder which we'll replace at the same time. As we have a manitenance contract with them BG are coming out this week to do a survey.
Thanks in advance.
Vinny.

 

[Killy Bing]

get three other quotes other than BG !!!

 

[zx1200r]

Thanks, tbh I'm not confident in them given our dealings so far. They installed a new pump which even the wife told him was smaller than the one he took out but he assured her was good for the job. The next engineer changed it for a larger one and the last engineer (last night) told us it wasn't running fast enough so he increased the speed! This guy told us a young lady will be coming out to survey but if she felt the job was to big they'd arrange someone else, needless to say we'll be making a phone call. Feels like a comedy sketch .

 

[vern]

Thanks, tbh I'm not confident in them given our dealings so far. They installed a new pump which even the wife told him was smaller than the one he took out but he assured her was good for the job. The next engineer changed it for a larger one and the last engineer (last night) told us it wasn't running fast enough so he increased the speed! This guy told us a young lady will be coming out to survey but if she felt the job was to big they'd arrange someone else, needless to say we'll be making a phone call. Feels like a comedy sketch .

Too far for me Vinny, shame I specialise in these works, as yours sounds light commercial spec, rather than domestic spec

 

[zx1200r]

Yes they did say commercial. Sorry to read that but thanks for your input.