Worcester Bosch - God has heard me......

[Bunker]

Went to the local merchant today and saw the WB mobile showroom outside. Chaps invited me in for a chat to which I said "its alright mate, Im an oily, you wont want to talk to me....." to which he replied, we do, come in...

So I did. 2 fellas, a rep and a trainer. I lamented about their awful oil products - THEY AGREED and said "BEHOLD, we have new stuff on the horizon..."...

So, WB have completely redesigned their gear, apparently they took a bunch of Grant devotees and threw them in a pot with some teckies and voila, new sensibly designed boilers! They have even invited me to an all in booze up and tour at the WB factory in July.

Then I woke up.

Scrub the last bit about waking up, I couldnt resist it....actually its 100% true and I applaud them, about time they applied their superb brand name to something half decent in our market. So, anyone a WB cynic? - find your local rep and ask him about it, should be very interesting.

 

[dancinplumba]

So, they have managed to brain wash another :-(

 

[SimonG]

Hopefully Grant will do the same with their pile of pap

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

worcesters are rubbish end of discussion

 

[Roger Welton]

Worcesters recent oil efforts are poor, which is a shame as the old danesmore and heatslaves weren't too bad.

 

[SimonG]

worcesters are rubbish end of discussion

Oh no it's not.

What happened to no swearing on an open forum?

 

[dancinplumba]

Get in there si

 

[kimbo]

had a new customer with a wb greenstar camray with the baffles welded in with sulphur. Previous engineer took 3hrs to get one baffle out. I refused to touch it and told him to get wb out which he did.They took 4 hours to get rest of baffles out and had to cut them out. They promised to replace it with a new boiler which has a two part heat exchanger?
Still wouldnt touch them with a barge pole.

 

[SimonG]

Get in there si

Forum rules are forum rules! Or are they?

 

[Bunker]

Worcesters recent oil efforts are poor, which is a shame as the old danesmore and heatslaves weren't too bad.

Interestingly those names are coming back, the new ones will be Danesmoors and Heatslaves.

 

[SimonG]

Interestingly those names are coming back, the new ones will be Danesmoors and Heatslaves.

Are they going back to the brown and orange control panels?

 

[Bunker]

I agree with all of the abuse they get, I despise the current and recent stuff but I welcome the chance of seeing new stuff dont you?

 

[vern]

Oh no it's not.

What happened to no swearing on an open forum?

Haha infraction! Points too....been there got the points lol

 

[villa_tom]

Apart from being awkward to repair, they are fantastic boilers when in operation in my opinion. I'm not oil, but I'd imagine there performance would be the same weather oil or gas.

Lets face it, most repairs are a result of lack of servicing. If appliances where as often as advised, then repairs would be a lot rarer.

Im not saying worcester are perfect, but they are up there with my boiler of choice.

If they can sort out the layout issues like they seem to be doing with the oil then I'd say they'd be up there as the best boiler on the market.

 

[SimonG]

I must admit I do like call outs to SE oil worcesters.

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

my bad lads tired thought this was in the arms

 

[SimonG]

my bad lads tired thought this was in the arms

Shame we don't have an oily oftec/experienced engineer section like the gsr one

 

[vern]

Thing is this is a big investment for WB as they only 60'000 oil boilers a year, small compared to their gas market, maybe this will increase their numbers, no doubt the investment is because a lot of eurocrats regs have been relaxed regards the modulating burners etc

 

[SimonG]

The trouble with WB at the minute is that their customer service sucks and is getting worse all the time.

 

[Bunker]

Oh, and they're going to front burners too.

 

[Bunker]

The trouble with WB at the minute is that their customer service sucks and is getting worse all the time.

Is better than Grants and they're still doing ok, maybe they'll improve that?

 

[vern]

Oh, and they're going to front burners too.

What make though?

 

[SimonG]

Hopefully sterling. I wish.

 

[Gray0689]

Hopefully Grant will do the same with their pile of pap

If you think grant are rubbish what do you use
As imho grand are the best by far

 

[Bunker]

New WB to use a Riello.
I'm off on 24th for the factory visit and jolly, to look at their new range of oilers. I have a 'plus 1' ticket if anyone is interested. If not, I'll report back.