How old is your gas boiler?

We’ve just replaced a boiler (Potterton) that lasted 33 years. We live in a very hard water area too. It was actually still going strong but we replaced the whole kitchen so thought we’d better get a new boiler too. We’ve now got a Worcester Bosch, which we’re pleased with, but we don’t expect to get 33 years out of that! (As an aside, our fridge-freezer, double oven and hob were also 33 years old, and we don’t expect the same length of life from their replacements either!)

Worchester Combi, its about 12yo, just had a new pressure vessel, a new pressure gauge and a relief valve, cost £280 to fix, it was an A rated boiler when new and i ve no intention of replacing, parts are plentiful and i ve a great gas engineer.

24 years old. We had it re-sited after 3 years when we extended the kitchen too. Our heating engineer said say we might struggle to get parts if it packs up. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

7 years.

My last boiler (Worcester) was installed in 1996 and I had it replaced last year (so 28 years old). It hadn’t broken down but parts were no longer readily available.

I don’t expect anything to last these days so will see how the new one turns out!

My last boiler was 25 years old and just kept going! We only changed it as we were having an extention and lots of work done to house, it was a Worcester and the one we have now is too

Our valiant one is 24 years old

we have been lucky that it hasn’t had much go wrong…. However it is acting up this winter.

had one repair man out who couldn’t fix it , British Gas came out suggested a new one , in between the two men coming out, it has started working again 🤷‍♂️

however we have had a quote for a new one for 3k from BG , that I think we will go with shortly. The good news about it starting to work again- is that fingers crossed we can save the money for it before hand .

Just had a Worcester boiler replaced, it lasted 12 years.

Not impressed.

I've gone with a different manufacturer, I was told Worcester are shit now.

If it’s worth repairing still, and the fact it’s undergoing a repair currently, it’s probably worth keeping until it conks out.

However, they always break in the winter, and then you have the hassle of not having it until you can get a new one fitted.

I’ve just had a Vaillant boiler replaced after 16 years but that was only because several things went wrong with it and it wasn’t worth repairing tbh. I’d got to the point of waking up every morning crossing my fingers that the radiators would be on!

That might be pushing it if you live in a hard water area. It knackers boilers more quickly than soft water does, according to my plumber.

My previous boilers lasted 13 and 14 years before they became uneconomical to repair. Neither of them were Worcester Bosch though.

My current one came with a 13 year guarantee, and I fully expect it to need replacing when the guarantee runs out.