Grandee oil boilers - Any experience

[lance]

Trabant, springs to mind.

 

[Roger Welton]

I personally have had too many problems with them over the years, wouldn't fit one.

Any w/h oil boiler is always a bit of a compromise (not to mention a back ache getting it hung!) only use them if no other sensible option and then only grant.

Good luck with the relaunch, though would have though you would be better with a new brand name also!

 

[WHPES]

SInce the post I serviced two of them and repaired another. On two the pressure relief valve had failed and for a relatively simple task it took about 3 hours to sort - I had to remove nearly all the pipework and equipment inside the boiler casing to be able to get at it. Also the burner is hung underneath and awkward to work on. There doesn't seem to be a hook to hang it on the framework so you need to position a stool under the boiler with a stack of yellow pages to rest it when its out. Finally I needed to add a 2 pipe system to one of them and there was hardly any space to come through the wall and fit a second loop. The cases are a nightmare to get back on with all the wires and pipes.

As Simon says I have had to replace the o rings on the Sika flow switches several times and I assume this must be because they are too close to the hot pipework and keep perishing. I have replaced the o rings in the Danfoss 3 port valve on one of them twice (the last time with silicone rubber o rings and so far so good) and I assume this is also the case.

So no, I have to agree that IMO they are one of the worst designed boilers around and its a no-no for me.

 

[lance]

Mind you, Worcester condensing oil boilers , are something to behold.

I usually light up a Hamlet and read my "Totalrubbish" magazine after being near one...

 

[ecowarm]

Mind you, Worcester condensing oil boilers , are something to behold.

I usually light up a Hamlet and read my "Total Carp" magazine after being near one...

I agree there Lance

 

[WHPES]

Unfortunately Worcesters are nothing like they used to be.

 

[Roger Welton]

But they have a shiny Worcester badge on the front and a pretty casing! (hiding loads of plastic tat :disappointed

 

[SimonG]

Worcesters still better than the grant t bags.

 

[WHPES]

Just to reiterate my grumbles about Grandee boilers. I was called to service one today. The burner is slung underneath with a tangle of hoses and cables near to impossible to shove inside the casing and get the casing on. The casing itself is a nightmare to get on and off properly. There is no hook to suspend the burner onto when taking it out for servicing, it is nigh on impossible to properly clean out the combustion chamber, there is little space to fit a second pipe to the pump for a 2 pipe system. Changing the Pressure relief valve is a total nightmare and to cap it off, there is no sampling point on the boiler itself so one has to constantly walk round the outside of the property to read the combustion analyser, then back again to make adjustments, then back again and so on. The boiler was at the rear of the house and each time you had to go through the house, put your boots on, go across the lawn and over the veg patch to get the the flue, then back again and again!!

After doing that, I was almost thinking that the Trianco Centajets (although I believe them to be the work of the devil) really aren't all that bad!

GRRRRRR!!!

 

[SimonG]

I have one I look after, upstairs in a bungalow. It's about 12" off of the floor. Absolute nightmare. You have my sympathy.