Hot water cylinder recomendations. Is Megaflo the best ?

[mavverick]

Hi All.

I have found this forum extremely useful, keep up the good work guys.

I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine, he reckons megaflo make the best hot water cylinders but I suspect his bias might be because megaflo dont have an external expansion vessel, which makes it look tidy etc, as I will be having a cylinder fitted soon I am trying to do some research, its a 5 bed house with a family bath and en-suite then downstairs which has a basin. We dont usually use the bath, typically a quick shower, household of 5.

In this scenarip, is a 300l indirect overkill or just about right, and secondly which cylinder is the best out there. The setup is UFH downstairs, rads upstairs, boiler is a worcester 30kw compact system boiler.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Peterdevon]

I have found the ones without an external vessel lose their bubble specially when they have a hot water circulation pump before they are due for a service.

 

[SimonG]

Probably most expensive but much better value for money on the market. You will get a fair few different answers. I used to fit plumb centres own brand but fit RM now.

 

[Gasmk1]

much like Worcester they are the big brand so can seem to be the best but you will get a lot of different views as to which is. I like OSO's. pretty sure megaflo aren't only ones with internal expansion, kingpin have internal expansion. it doesn't necessarily make it better it does make the cylinder larger as you have a gap at the top

 

[Sparkgap]

ACV are a good alternative.

 

[Jim Goodenough]

Joule are good quality too - they make a version with an internal expansion gap called Joule Air (I haven't fitted the later).