OT - Ideal boilers (and boiler quality in general)

Mar 22, 2018 3 Replies

Just went round a couple of new developments purely to be nosey, and I noted that both (different developers with very different quality) had Ideal boilers in the show homes.



Advice here seems to be WB or Vaillant for decent quality.



Where do Ideal sit in the league table?



On a related note, if you buy a house is it worth replacing a cheap boiler over the summer instead of waiting for it to fail in the middle of winter? Again, not planning to buy anywhere but just speculating. I suppose it depends at least partly on how long you expect to live in the property.



Cheers


Dave R



Search me. But FWIW there was an Ideal icos boiler in the house I moved into twelve years ago and, apart from a new igniter and routine servicing, it's been flawless.

Another Dave

Another Dave formulated the question :

Our HE18 is 10 years old, it has so far needed a replacement PCB and a replacement igniter (spark plug). As just mentioned it has just failed again with a faulty PCB possibly due to a fan failure. I am in the middle of attempting to repair it, so no definite diagnosis as yet.

Nine times out of ten, they do all fail in the winter, because that is when they get most use.

far from ideal. Middle of the table in Which 2016, but bear in mind that only the top 2, WB & Vaillant have figures that indicate they're worth buying. Ease of getting parts was the only reported upside.

if it's about to die, sure.

NT

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