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I live in a 4 bed detached house (1935) which has an ancient Potterton oil boiler (it looks about 40 years old at least). This wonderful old boiler has given me good service for the last 15 years but last winter's oil cost was around 1000 pounds and this seems much too high to me. Also on any night close to zero degrees we have to light a coal fire to stay warm.
I have improved the insulation as best I can and now I am turning my attention to the boiler.
I would appreciate advice on the following points.
a.Should I stick with oil? (There is no gas in the house and BG quoted 500 pounds to install it.
b.A condensing boiler seems to be sensible and will be compulsory soon but I have a single pipe central heating sysytem and I have been told that condensing boilers wont run in condense mode on a single pipe system.Is this correct? As I understand it the returning water temperature has to be low enough to trigger condensing but surely there is a way to do this even on a single pipe system
I have improved the insulation as best I can and now I am turning my attention to the boiler.
I would appreciate advice on the following points.
a.Should I stick with oil? (There is no gas in the house and BG quoted 500 pounds to install it.
b.A condensing boiler seems to be sensible and will be compulsory soon but I have a single pipe central heating sysytem and I have been told that condensing boilers wont run in condense mode on a single pipe system.Is this correct? As I understand it the returning water temperature has to be low enough to trigger condensing but surely there is a way to do this even on a single pipe system