We've resisted the regular "siren calls" to install a modern (e.g. condensing) boiler and have stuck to a traditional "box in the corner" that has run happily for over 25 years. Boy, are we glad to stick with "old reliable"
With a hot water tank and electric immersion as backup. Plus a kettle.
British Gas keep telling us it's old and you can't get parts.
But then the engineers admit that, apart from the casing and burner the only "parts" are a gas valve (design unchanged in decades) and thermocouple. Both have been replaced at least once.
And it keeps the kitchen warm.
If we replaced it we'd need a heater installed in the kitchen.
And apparently it's less efficient and we'd save money on our gas bill.
Which apparently we'd spend (and more) on maintenance as newer boilers are so much more complex........
Seriously though, I hope you get sorted soon.
Someone I know has an even more difficult gas combined hot-water hot-air central heating system which failed. They were ill at home with bronchitis in the worst of the winter and it took 2 months to replace!
