I've just been reading up on the above as part of some college work, some of you may know that all replacement external circulating pumps had to be high efficiency from January 2013.
In 2015, this will also apply to the integral pumps found in combi/system boilers, some manufacturers have already starting putting high efficiency pumps in already.
However from 2020, it will will also apply to the /replacement/ of integral pumps in /existing/ appliances, now some appliances, like my boiler for example which was installed in 2008 will only be 12 years old in 2020 and it came with a standard efficiency pump...this means that, if the pump was to fail, the boiler would have to replaced unless the manufacturer released a new modified high efficiency pump! My boiler was just an example, it was on sale with the same pump until end of 2011.
Surely this is madness?! Replace an entire boiler which may well be in perfect working order just because a high efficiency pump isn't available?
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