Hi
I have a combi boiler, which was installed by the previous owners in our upstairs back bedroom. I want to move it to a more suitable location downstairs in the house eventually (into a ground floor extension that isn't built yet) and have some questions ... hope somebody can help? I'm trying to assess how much of a disruption the work will be. The reasons will become apparent ...
Pipes ...
Is the job of moving the boiler fairly straight forward as far as the existing pipework is concerned... ie: could loops be made in the right places where the boiler used to be, and the boiler inserted into the system downstairs, without having to disrupt much of the rest of the house?
Gas ...
The gas feed comes out of the kitchen to the outside wall, up the outside wall, back inside under the first floor, under the bathroom, under the back bedroom and eventually to the boiler. This would all become redundant, apart from the feed in the kitchen - this is where we would take the gas from to fit a new supply pipe to the new boiler location. Can this be isolated / emptied and simply left in place, or should it come out? I'd want to get rid of the pipework outside, but don't fancy having to lift 20 feet of t&g floorboards...
The bathroom ...
I'm planning a bathroom refurb very soon - this is what's brought these questions about. The pipework that feeds the boiler - the cold supply and the gas, runs under the bathroom floor. This is fine for now as it will be 12 months before I come to move the boiler, but I'll be having a nice new tiled bathroom floor put down before Chrimbo. When it comes to moving the boiler next year I don't want to have to rip up the new bathroom floor to get to any pipework that will become redundant. So the same question as above really - can this be left in place disused, drained etc. as long as nothing is connected at either end and it's labelled up?
Thanks very much[/b]
I have a combi boiler, which was installed by the previous owners in our upstairs back bedroom. I want to move it to a more suitable location downstairs in the house eventually (into a ground floor extension that isn't built yet) and have some questions ... hope somebody can help? I'm trying to assess how much of a disruption the work will be. The reasons will become apparent ...
Pipes ...
Is the job of moving the boiler fairly straight forward as far as the existing pipework is concerned... ie: could loops be made in the right places where the boiler used to be, and the boiler inserted into the system downstairs, without having to disrupt much of the rest of the house?
Gas ...
The gas feed comes out of the kitchen to the outside wall, up the outside wall, back inside under the first floor, under the bathroom, under the back bedroom and eventually to the boiler. This would all become redundant, apart from the feed in the kitchen - this is where we would take the gas from to fit a new supply pipe to the new boiler location. Can this be isolated / emptied and simply left in place, or should it come out? I'd want to get rid of the pipework outside, but don't fancy having to lift 20 feet of t&g floorboards...
The bathroom ...
I'm planning a bathroom refurb very soon - this is what's brought these questions about. The pipework that feeds the boiler - the cold supply and the gas, runs under the bathroom floor. This is fine for now as it will be 12 months before I come to move the boiler, but I'll be having a nice new tiled bathroom floor put down before Chrimbo. When it comes to moving the boiler next year I don't want to have to rip up the new bathroom floor to get to any pipework that will become redundant. So the same question as above really - can this be left in place disused, drained etc. as long as nothing is connected at either end and it's labelled up?
Thanks very much[/b]
