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McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Unfortunately our airing cupboard has no space for the boilers due to the slope of the bedroom roof.

Ideally I want to keep my hot water tank & immersion. I'm not keen on mains hot water  pressure on my 50 year-old radiator pipes.

Gromitdog:
Hi Ted

I think the clue to why you got problems is in the name of the boiler unfortunately, We went for a Vassmaan back in 2019 and its run like a dream ever since and their was only a little difference in the price.  Hopefully your get it fixed very soon and be toasty warm ;).

Gromitdog

royhall:
Ted. I'm pretty sure all back boilers were finally phased out in 2020 (Hurrah). The Viessmann boilers are reported to be suffering from burner box corrosion, the larger ones have even had a recall/replacement notice that cost the company a lot of money. When you say a bad connection to the condensate pump, was that water or electrics. The pumps on those things are a nightmare, if you have wooden floors you can replace the pump with a decent one. There's not room in a BBU for a better pump so we put them under the floor next to the chimney breast and pipe/wire to there. Obviously the pump needs to be lower than the heat exchanger so that wont work on a concrete floor.

I don't know the layout of your house but there are usually options. Is it a house or bungalow, is it concrete floors, are there laminate/tiled floors everywhere, is there room outside where you could build a small lean-to boiler room, is your chimney on an outside wall etc.

In 30 years as a gas engineer I have never failed to find a way to replace a boiler. An example was a back boiler replacement that we couldn't figure out. In the end the chimney breast (on an outside wall) was opened up and a combi put inside the old chimney then they had a cupboard front fitted. There was a lot of other work to it but that was the jist. Just some ideas for you.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I believe only Baxi made a condensing boiler to directly  replace their famous Baxi Bermuda back boiler item.

When our house was built a Bermuda model was fitted from new in 1967. That first boiler lasted until 1987 when it was replaced with a similar unit with a more modern front gas fire. The boiler sits behind it in the fireplace recess. The second boiler was replaced in 2014 with the current condensing type.

With Baxi  boiler life of 20 & 17 years I stuck with Baxi due to a good experience with the brand plus no one else made one that would  was a direct replacement. Obviously lost the front gas fire for a modern electric unit due to the special chimney arrangement.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I agree Roy there must be other options, the local firm that fitted the BBU seemed to think the rear bedroom was the only other viable option.

We have solid concrete floors no wood on the ground floor. The. Kitchen option would mean having our consumer unit moved plus a relocation of Gas Hob & Oven Units.

Our outside walls, one side is our driveway, other side is our neighbours drive. Rear wall has full width Conservatory, front wall is  the building line. My worry with the loft is it's a low height as it's a Dorma- Bungalow design. The existing header tanks would struggle to get them raised above the boiler.

The rear bedroom option might be the best of a lousy  set of alternatives. Our boiler never faulted for the first 3 years. It's only since our serious fire that the boiler has started faulting.

With a bit of luck we can squeeze another 4 years out of what we have provided the insurance cover is not prohibitive.

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