hello,
Bit of background info, got a small 2 bed house, 1 bathroom and 8 radiators. Conventional ideal classic boiler with hot tank and cold tanks in loft
all our radiators and the boiler is the original since circa 1991 although its chugging along fine, we want to do a complete refresh as sick of "do you want hot water tomorrow morning?" Yes we can upgrade to a proper programmer but its not going to last forever
Question 1, ive seen a combi boiler i quite like. Its a worcester greenstar 42cdi, which is going to be massively over spec, but its got high water output for showers and our mains water pressure & flow seems powerful but not measured. We'd probably go into the loft at some pointer so will add 3 more radiators and most likely an en suite so ive taken this into account with the beasty boiler.
Are there any negatives to having an over specced boiler? Other than costs? (looks like its only £1500-1600 anyway) In my mind its like buying a bigger engined car, probably wont need the power but if i do i know ive got it.
We'd be changing all the radiators from single radiators to the type 22.
The kitchen doesnt have a radiator, it use to but when the extension was built, they put in more kitchen units and the pipes behind some units (done before we moved in)
In the extension (kitchen doesnt have a full wall leading to the extension, kinda round arch where you walk then another arch over the worktop) theres a radiator probably 600x1200 single radiator which heats both rooms or tries its hardest as walking from the front room into kitchen you can feel probably 5-6 degrees difference.
So im thinking big solution, one of those beasty type 33 radiator, 600x1800.
Would that be enough to heat both rooms? Roughly 8m long by 4m wide, but the radiator is in the extension.
The only problem I see is the dining table is quite close to the radiator and I could imagine sitting next to it and basically turn into human scratchings!
I'm not rulling out fitting a radiator in the kitchen but where it'll go will be basically 600x600
Bit of background info, got a small 2 bed house, 1 bathroom and 8 radiators. Conventional ideal classic boiler with hot tank and cold tanks in loft
all our radiators and the boiler is the original since circa 1991 although its chugging along fine, we want to do a complete refresh as sick of "do you want hot water tomorrow morning?" Yes we can upgrade to a proper programmer but its not going to last forever
Question 1, ive seen a combi boiler i quite like. Its a worcester greenstar 42cdi, which is going to be massively over spec, but its got high water output for showers and our mains water pressure & flow seems powerful but not measured. We'd probably go into the loft at some pointer so will add 3 more radiators and most likely an en suite so ive taken this into account with the beasty boiler.
Are there any negatives to having an over specced boiler? Other than costs? (looks like its only £1500-1600 anyway) In my mind its like buying a bigger engined car, probably wont need the power but if i do i know ive got it.
We'd be changing all the radiators from single radiators to the type 22.
The kitchen doesnt have a radiator, it use to but when the extension was built, they put in more kitchen units and the pipes behind some units (done before we moved in)
In the extension (kitchen doesnt have a full wall leading to the extension, kinda round arch where you walk then another arch over the worktop) theres a radiator probably 600x1200 single radiator which heats both rooms or tries its hardest as walking from the front room into kitchen you can feel probably 5-6 degrees difference.
So im thinking big solution, one of those beasty type 33 radiator, 600x1800.
Would that be enough to heat both rooms? Roughly 8m long by 4m wide, but the radiator is in the extension.
The only problem I see is the dining table is quite close to the radiator and I could imagine sitting next to it and basically turn into human scratchings!
I'm not rulling out fitting a radiator in the kitchen but where it'll go will be basically 600x600
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