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Ökofen vs. Fröling, in Spain

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  •  Kabe
17.2. - 29.2.2008
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Hallo!

Firs of all I beg your pardon for writing in English, but I don’t speak German. Sorry! I hope I will not be banned for it! :)
I am writing from Spain, the north of it, where I live. I am interested in installing a pellet boiler as heating system (also for water supply) in my house, whose construction will begin soon (180 m2 in two floors). Well, I know that Austrian Pelletskessel manufacturers are very well considered in all Europe, i.e. Ökofen and Fröling. Actually I am interested in either of these models, but I can’t make up my mind. As a matter of fact their prices are quite different in Spain, although they are considered pretty as the same level. Here the prices in Spain of both of them:

ÖKOFEN PE 25 kw: 7.876 €

FRÖLING P2 25 kw: 12.216 €

These prices don’t include vat, and refer only to the nude boiler, without accessories and so on.

As you see, Fröling PE is considerably more expensive than Ökofen P2, at least in Spain. Does this price difference mean a significant quality gap between them? Maybe the importing rates are different for both of them. Are they really equivalent? Do they cost pretty much the same in Austria? What do you advise me, considering quality-price relation between both of tem?

Vielen Dank!

  •  peele
25.2.2008  (#1)
choose the p2 - I am a heating Installer and have installed both boilers. There is a reason for the price difference...First of all you can't see it from the outside it's the detail that makes the difference, it's the material which is used. After having installed more than 15 Oekofen boilers I changed my supplier. On the long run several problems occured with the installed ökofen boilers and customers got dissatisfied. I now install Fröling boilers for several reasons - the P2 is an absolutely perfectionised model. It's beeing produced for more than 7 years now. All problems which occured in the first two years are solved and ideas from installers were consitantly transformed. The experience of fröling dates back to the 1960s and the modern boilers are qualitywise unbeatable. I swapt to fröling aswell because they offer the whole product range (pellet, wood lod and wood chips). I have been installing the P2 for almost 4 years know - the few problems which occured with the boilers where mostly homemade by the customers. If the boiler runs my cusomers are happy and happy customers got me a lot more customers...and if things like that happen, you know you got the right product. Further more I visited the production of Fröling in Austria (the fröling movie "in the hotspot" http://www.froeling.com/en/ will give you an idea of what I am talking) it's high tech! Precise production is one of the keys of top quality. For me as an installer it's important that my supplier isn't a small company - a lot of the little one go bankrupt after some year and the you have to problem of getting no spare parts - secondly it's the personal supply (semiars etc) and thirdly I prefer family companies to shareholder companies - the later one have a different opinion about long term investments . Fröling invested arround 15 Mio. in 2006 and 2007 (not another woodboiler company invested nearly as much!!!)
I can't explain you everything in detail - I simply have less problem with the froeling than with the ökofen. And that is worth the price difference - with cheap boilers the final bill often comes later!
good luck with whatever you coose
frank

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  •  Kabe
29.2.2008  (#2)
thaks - Thank you very much, peele, for your information and advise. The difference is now clear for me. The only problem I see about Fröling (besides being so expensive, of course!) is the poor technical suppor it has in my region. In any case, thank you very much, again, for your help.
Kabe

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