Derek in this episode of inside the boiler case goes to his local city plumbing to check out the brand new Worcester greenstar 1000 combination boiler.
@2.33 the stat monitors the burner door temp, so after servicing will trip if the seals are not in correctly / damaged (nice touch that). Prv and AAV are nice to get to, nice that the plate is accessible still. Looks a nice little unit.
Dek, I like it pal, defo be using some, dare I say it... looks as easy as a logic to work on !! Probably the best boiler they've made lol... Stu Hart .. hope you're well mate
Best looking worcester iv seen in a long time, but not quite as good as the competition im afraid...still it will make it a bit nicer when im repairing them in 5 years 😂👍👍
Wow price has actually shocked me. Will this be my next budget go to boiler 😮 may be or most definatly. Could do with an internal filling loop though 🤔
I haven’t seen one in the flesh yet but I like the ss hex and the usual parts that fail are easily got to from the front , would be good for tight spaces and looks a good price + flue coming in at about £ 750 inc vat for the 30 kw I might give one a go on my next landlord budget boiler swop cheers Derek 👍
Apart from the heat exchanger itself it’s the same inside as the 2000. It will be a while before we get feedback from the field on how good the new heat exchanger is. Let’s hope it’s better than the compact.
Cheap but with some pleasant surprises in the price range; with a somewhat honest design - I think it was a battle between the design engineers and those who set the price limits for the parts... I'm curious about the reliability: - 3-way valve - pump - I have seen this pump model in the past with a broken shaft when it came out of warranty and the owner paid 350E for a new one - the water flow meter - the expansion vessel - in recent years I have seen extremely bad expansion vessels on all brands of gas boilers... - the gasket from the combustion chamber cover - that safety thermostat is put there in case that gasket fails... - the electronic fan that I encountered with problems on a batch of bosch boilers... For the rest, I hope they don't have electronic boards with epilepsy or alzheimer software, as I've seen with other brands of boilers in the past (ferroli and immergas + almost all competing models with them that used electronic boards from Bertelli with processors from Freescale but also honeywell (bosch had the first defective boards when they let honeywell make them for them, then they also found out how to make less reliable boards after they got over the pride of honest germans). Electronic boards with ST processors are generally more stable + At viessmann I encountered unstable software... Probably some of these boilers will last for many years, but I expect there will be problems with them due to the combination of selected parts, although it can be seen that they struggled to offer you the maximum for that money
the only thing that might let this boiler down against other budget boilers (i could be wrong) Is the DHW flow rate its not very good which a lot of customers want to see an improvement from their old boilers
Pleasantly surprised!! It looks good fora Whooshitter Botch, lots of redeeming features & fairly inexpensive. Any Razor Sharp edges Del?? It would’ve been good to see the standard mounting bracket👍 Thanks Del insightful as usual.
I have installed this boiler few weeks ago, there is an issue with the heating and hot water now. Temperature goes 57c both demands goes off and after few minutes it’s starting again. As I understand it’s issue with temperature sensor issue. I will speak with Worcester help line tomorrow. If any advice pls put comments. Many thanks!
What do these boiler manufacturers know that we don't? First Baxi, Ideal, then Vaillant and now Worcester, all coming out with new boilers this year when gas boilers are supposed to get banned soon. I can't remember the year as it always gets pushed.
Most likely units they had in the pipeline and want to get them out quickly before there's no demand for them. Although I'm still skeptical that the no gas into new builds will even go ahead. Or at least they'll push it back.
It was going so well a stainless heat exchanger, then you open it up and it’s full of plastic composite, you know they will break down and block easily , plus the poor modulation levels it should be 10 to 1 as standard now to get ahead of Government regulations, what a shame
The inside look liike a mixture off different boiler mostly valiant, valiant -heat exchanger, valiant expansion Worcester mostly have red exp vessel, valiant diverter valve, glowworm condense trap and you could say even the plate but on some Worcester you have that one screw plate exchanger. I can see what will happen, give it a few years and we will be cursing this boiler, too much plastic inside because it cheaply designed the plastic components are prone to break. Let's see not happy with the panel not removing because I can see when draining the boiler sometimes the drain off is stiff can't get your grips on drain off and no space😮
vaillant does not make its primary heat exchanger, but buys it; at Vaillant, the combustion cover gasket is superior in design; that expansion vessel format is used by several manufacturers and from my experience it is not reliable.... the pump scares me the most with this boiler ... I have always had unpleasant experiences with this type of pumps