Recent content by peterd51

Hi dcawkwell, 'You can install the cylinder later if you want. You may be so happy with the combi that you won't bother.' I like to have a bit of water stored in the house in case 'the mains' gets shut off. The way things are going in this country it can't be long before we start seeing...

Hi, Armo74 & dcawkwell: thanks for the info. Charnwood: 'You could always cough up 40-odd quid for a couple of bits of plastic and a rivet' sorry I don't understand. Is that a method of using a combi boiler to heat the hot water tank or a joke for the other guys? I guess either the...

Hi Charnwood, thanks for the link. I tried that one previously and it's due to getting a much higher value there that I asked the questions on here. I managed to get to Wickes today and found the CH tutorial with the calculator as suggested by dcawkwell... so I'll add that into my...

Hi, thanks for the replies, sorry for any confusion I may be using the wrong terms (I'm a network engineer!). There's a water heater in the kitchen that I want to have changed to an old-fashioned central heating boiler, not a combi or a condensing type. Then I'll have eight rads plus a...

Hi, we've just bought a 'standard' three bed semi... fully double-glazed (not sure when it was installed), cavity walls insulated (again, not sure when), about 200mm glass-fibre in the roof done about four years ago (certificates stapled to beams). There's a 'standard' gas fire in...