Should I replace my oil boiler or repair it?
Homeowners trying to figure out if an existing oil boiler needs a full replacement or just a deep cleaning risk spending large amounts of money prematurely. They also struggle to determine whether to disconnect the setup or reconnect the same type of boiler to their water heater.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Switching to a high efficiency combi boiler
- 2Installing a heat pump water heater
- 3Replacing the boiler with one that doesn't have a tankless coil
- 4Replacing components like the thermocouple themselves
- 5Seeking a second opinion or attempting to deep clean and brush out the heat exchanger
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“This is set up when we bought the house. Need new boiler, disconnect or get same exact boiler hooked up to water heater?”source ↗
“how would we know if this truly needs replacing or if a deep cleaning can do it? We are really just trying to exhaust our options before we commit to a full new unit and spend all that money.”source ↗
Where this came up
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