Gas Combi Boiler Choice (Water Softener)

[Ada69]

I have a Victorian 2 bed house with 1 bathroom. Pulling out the old boiler and tanks and going get a combi installed. Now I want the system to also have a water softener in it, here lies the problem I believe. Worcester Bosch advise not to use water softeners on their boilers due to them having an Aluminum Primary heat exchanger with a secondary heat exchanger being made of stainless steel, Tech help line said it would ruin the boiler and to look at another boiler which was honest of them I felt. Vaillant combi boilers have a Stainless Steel Primary heat exchanger and a Stainless steel secondary heat exchanger so this would work with a water softener?. Does this mean that if I want to use a water softener I am limiting myself to which boiler I can choose. Could someone please recommend me a Vaillant combi boiler for my house, I don’t want it to be under powered for the house either! Bit out of my depth on this one!

Thank you

 

[Kev the gas]

Connect the filling loop to a hard water supply ie before the water softener and connect the cold inlet to the boiler with softened water.

 

[Ada69]

Kev,

Does this mean I could use a WB boiler and still have hot water produced which is softened with no damage to the boiler? I need softened hot water due to sore skin on my hands. The WB Tech help line to not mention this at all. Thanks

 

[TimeServed]

Look at the Vaillant ecoTEC range.

 

[TBServices]

Why would you even want a WB? You been reading that stupid which magazine? Lol.

Get a proper boiler, made of metal not plastic.