My new house comes complete with a Baxi Barcelona CH boiler which repeatedly locks out. following speaking to a plumber friend of mine and reading up on numerous horror stories on the web, it seems that I may be wise to replace the whole thing.
The house is a large, 4 bed, detached Victorian house with an attic conversion. Currently there is a family bathroom plus a small bathroom in the attic conversion and a total of 20 radiators. Once we complete building work I expect to have an en-suite with shower, a guest bathroom with bath and shower, plus a bathroom in the attic conversion which will either have a shower or bath with shower over. I have 2 growing daughters who will soon be competing for hot water first thing in the morning and it may well be realistic for 2 showers to be running simultaneously.
The current Baxi system is coupled with a large (4/5ft tall ?) Heatrae Sadia Megaflo cylinder and the hot water system is mains pressure. I know next to nothing about how the Megaflo system works, which may explain my next question...
My friend has suggested (by phone) a Worcester-Bosch 40Cdi boiler, which has lots of interesting stats. such as a 16l flow rate. Googling has also found the Worcester-Bosch Highflow 440 with a 20l flow rate (though this declines to 11l once the 'heat bank' is exhausted). Am I right in assuming that the Megaflo cylinder would mean that the 40Cdi could meet my requirements as well as the 440 could ? He's also offering me mates rates utilising his trade discount to get the 40CDi for circa 940+VAT...which seems better than anything google has found.
Any alternative boiler suggestions ?
TIA,
Craig