Valiant VKS76E

[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
Thanks in advance.
Vinny.

 

[lame plumber]

post in im looking for a plumber section with your area and one on here will quote for you with luck

 

[zx1200r]

post in im looking for a plumber section with your area and one on here will quote for you with luck

Done, thanks

 

[vern]

Welcome Vinny
that beast you have suffer ignition failure for a variety of reasons, get some one to size your system up, you may get away with 2x 30 kw boilers on a LOW LOSS HEADER, again hard to say without seeing it, the gas valves are unique to this boiler and are obsolete now too

good luck

 

[zx1200r]

Thanks Vern. Tonight we switched it on manually and it tried a few times before the reset button activated, it did start eventually. Might be a nip in the air come morning though.

 

[vern]

Get it replaced soon as pal, they just fail when they get to this stage, I am sure there's some in Wilmslow on here who fits Vaillants too

 

[zx1200r]

Get it replaced soon as pal, they just fail when they get to this stage, I am sure there's some in Wilmslow on here who fits Vaillants too

Yep we're looking into it at the mo' but what bioler would you recommend? Odd thing is we've come to realise the bugger comes on fine in the morning with both the heating and water coming on 6-7AM but in the evening with both set at 5-6PM it trips?

Anyway vern you mentioned 2x30kw boilers as opposed to say 1 x 60kw, the gas fitter who came also mentioned that but at the time I failed to ask why. Would it be to provide some sort of backup?