Plumbing advice · Boilers & Heating
Which Boiler Brand Should You Buy?
Worcester Bosch, Vaillant, Ideal and the rest: an installer's honest view of the brand question.
The forums overstate the gaps
The mainstream brands are closer in reliability than the arguments suggest. Warranty length, local parts availability and the quality of the installation move your outcome far more than the badge does.
What actually matters
A boiler sized correctly for the house, fitted to manufacturer spec, on a cleansed system with a magnetic filter, serviced annually. Do those four things and any mainstream brand will see out its warranty and beyond.
Our practice
We fit the brands whose parts sit on the merchant's shelf in your postcode, because a rare boiler with a two-day part wait is a worse product than a common one fixed by teatime, whatever the review score said.
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