Anyone fitting Glow worm combis?

[Ray Stafford]

Boo heatline!!!!

Nothing wrong with Heatline of itself. Their Sargon and Solaris boilers were rather good.

However, if you ask a factory to produce a £399 boiler, then they will use cheap components and will spend less on design, quality control and all those other good things.

In their home market (Turkey) Heatline, or rather the Demirdokum factory, make a completely different product, and are perceived as the top quality brand.

Funny old world, innit?

 

[gasmanrob]

Cheap parts! A hydro block for a c24 is £250 plus the dreaded!

But it they have to make money somewhere.

 

[Killy Bing]

Cheap parts! A hydro block for a c24 is £250 plus the dreaded!

But it they have to make money somewhere.

I must confess, when williams stopped doing heatlines me and Ali got one a stripped it for parts in the maidstone branch car park.

Proceeded to make a killing repairing three boilers.....

 

[Ray Stafford]

Cheap parts! A hydro block for a c24 is £250 plus the dreaded!

But it they have to make money somewhere.

Hi Rob

I think you are confusing the money that Vaillant UK charge for SPARES with the value of the original COMPONENT used in the Demirdokum factory.

The point I was making is that if I bought BMW and ordered them to make cheap cars, then they would have to cut their standards somewhere. There is nothing to say that a factory can't make a cheap product on one line, and a much higher quality product on another.

This is exactly what DemirDokum do. They make good quality boilers for their domestic market, but export less high quality appliances for their owners export markets.

Their engineering people are devastated that they are seen in the UK as cheap rubbish, because they aren't allowed to send their good products here.

 

[Riley]

My last four boilers out sargons. Nasty machines

 

[Ray Stafford]

My last four boilers out sargons. Nasty machines

que ?

 

[Riley]

My last four boiler replacements were sargons in a block of flats each had failed each in more spectacular fashion than the last. I'm a firm believer that a lot of it comes from good / bad installation and maintenance. The units themselves may not be too bad but I've never worked on one that's not falling apart

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Fitted 10 flexicoms in 2013 on the same site and only had one problem,hot water not hot enough! Came out on warranty and changed pretty much the whole boiler but didn't cost a penny so no complaints from the custard.