I am lucky to live in a detached house that has four bedrooms in it - I have an Ideal Mexico 2 boiler with 3 inch steel barrell pipework coming up the external of the house.
I have had a few gas engineers come out to try and replace and they all want to rip out floorboards and generally make a mess and I have done so much research.
I have the following questions
- I believe I have a one pipe system - Is this correct?
- Do I have gravity hot water or fully pumped system?
- Is it possible to have hot water only without central heating? I believe not - If I turn on th eboiler the flow pipe gets hot, some of which goes to the hot water cylinder but the remainder goes to the radiators. Is this correct?
I tried to include a picture of the boiler and pipework - Would be really good to have expert advice from wise forum members on this
My thought was to replace with an Intergas OV HRE 30KW - And I was hoping it would be a like for like swap.
One final point - I replaced a cast iron radiator with a column radiator and a TRV4 valves - It only gets lukewarm - Would the pump speed change how hot the rad gets? There is a 28mm Magnaclean filter on one branch of the return
