Advice on brand new Potterton Powermax

[pennard]

Hi I have joined this great forum to try and get some advice from the experts here :smiley2:

9 years ago I built an extension that has been finished externally but due to a new baby arriving work stopped and it still hasnt been completed!!! At the time I bought a new boiler that is still sitting wrapped up in the garage waiting to be installed!

For the last 6 months I have tried to get numerous plumbers round to install it but most dont even call back when they find that the boiler is a Potterton Powermax HE with a 90ltr tank. I am told that it is very hard to work on, unreliable and impossible to get parts for anymore. They say that I should cut my losses and just by a new Vaillant system boiler and a 200ltr tank.

So should it try and get it installed still?

or sell it whole on ebay/ or break it and sell the parts? and get a different boiler installed?

Thanks for any help

Martin

 

[Chalked]

Hi
I would ring a plumber and say I will pay you £10 an hour more than your normal rate. This will be more attractive and justify fitting a customer supplied boiler. These will still beed guaranteeing with the manufacturer and registering with fas safe. Most plumbers put a profit on the boiler cost to allow for this. .

 

[Chalked]

Hi
I would ring a plumber and say I will pay you £10 an hour more than your normal rate. This will be more attractive and justify fitting a customer supplied boiler. These will still beed guaranteeing with the manufacturer and registering with fas safe. Most plumbers put a profit on the boiler cost to allow for this. .

 

[Gasmk1]

Check with potterton to see if there will still be a warranty as it has never been fitted, problems could occur because it has been stored for so long, and any one installing it for you would be worried about this.

 

[joni os]

Powermax were a good idea, but servicing a problem as was flue.(corrosion)
If it comes complete with flue pipe sell on ebay. These were often installed in positions,away from external wall, unsuitable for condensate runs or unvented pressure relief pipework.
Only someone in that situation would contemplate a direct swap but essential flue changed with boiler.

 

[joni os]

Powermax were a good idea, but servicing a problem as was flue.(corrosion)
If it comes complete with flue pipe sell on ebay. These were often installed in positions,away from external wall, unsuitable for condensate runs or unvented pressure relief pipework.
Only someone in that situation would contemplate a direct swap but essential flue changed with boiler.

 

[pennard]

Thanks for the replies.

I have all the flue pipes along with extra bends, straights and even 2 lead roof vents

Any idea what the value would be??

To add I now have a 3,68 kw solar array on the roof so could divert any spare generation to an immersion heater if I went for a system boiler / tank setup.

 

[Leo21]

If the boilers nine years the old Baxi won't honour any warranty. As a rule we don't like fitting supplied boilers, customers complain as what they perceive to be our labour charges.

 

[joni os]

Put it on ebay. Start at £500.00 Cash on collection. No point in having paypal keep money for 90 days and too many opportunities to rise a grievance. Whats your area.

 

[pennard]

I am in the Southampton area

 

[Chalked]

Put it on ebay. Start at £500.00 Cash on collection. No point in having paypal keep money for 90 days and too many opportunities to rise a grievance. Whats your area.

Be lucky to get £200!

 

[Chalked]

Put it on ebay. Start at £500.00 Cash on collection. No point in having paypal keep money for 90 days and too many opportunities to rise a grievance. Whats your area.

Be lucky to get £200!

 

[Subby]

Death trap.
Throw it in a skip.

 

[Subby]

Death trap.
Throw it in a skip.

 

[Rickster123]

I agree with the eBay idea. I think it would sell well particularly around Southampton. There's loads of them fitted around the city centre.

 

[pennard]

Thanks for all the replies. Ebay it is then :smilewinkgrin: