Hi Folks,
We've just bought a new house, in which eventually we'd like to redo the bathroom & attic bedroom (both places where the water tanks are stored for the CH system), ideally without these tanks in place.
Our initial intention was to move in with the CH system as-is, and have the tanks removed, plumbing adjusted etc at a later date, when the cash was in hand to do that and the bathroom at the same time. However, on reflection, it perhaps makes more sense to have all the "infrastructure" work (also going to go through a rewire, fortunately my dad is a sparky, so that helps save some money) done up-front, before we move in / start decorating so that we dont have to move everything / destroy my lovely handiwork at a later stage.
With the requirement for removal of storage tanks to make more space (coupled with the fact that we use very little hot water, just a couple of showers each day and the odd bit of hand washing), a combi boiler seemed the right way to go for us, so am after the following advice / information if you're willing and able?
* Recommendations for heating engineers in the hertfordshire (Letchworth) area.
* Recommendations for boilers (see house info below if it's useful?)
* Any specific questions I ought to ask any heating engineers to sort the gooduns from the badduns?
* An idea of the number of changes which are going to be needed to the plumbing / time it's like to take / cost of installation. If any of that is even close to possible from just my description?
House:
3 storey (attic conversion) house, as follows:
- Ground floor - lounge, kitchen, garage
- 1st floor - lounge, bedroom, bathroom
- 2nd floor (attic) - bedroom
1 radiator in each room, except garage
sink in kitchen and bathroom (along with bath, loo)
electric shower in bathroom (will eventually replace with one which takes water from the combi, with a thermostatic control)
cold-fill dish washer and washing machine in kitchen
boiler in garage (where i would like to keep it)
current CH system: boiler (dont have make/model to hand) takes a gas pipe (wider bore with an adaptor at the boiler to shrink it down?), and a cold water feed, and provides a hot feed out (presumably to copper tank where heat is exchanged to CH and hot water?), in loft is a HUGE cold water tank and a smaller expansion tank for the CH system, programmer currently in bathroom, thermostat on stairs.
Price wise, happy to spend the money to get a decent boiler which will hopefully fail less than a cheapy one, but dont feel the need (unless you tell me it's really worth it?) to go for a top of the line model. When i buy a car, i'm more into reliability, ease of maintenence etc over a posh badge, same applies here
A thousand thanks for all and any help you can provide!
Gav.
We've just bought a new house, in which eventually we'd like to redo the bathroom & attic bedroom (both places where the water tanks are stored for the CH system), ideally without these tanks in place.
Our initial intention was to move in with the CH system as-is, and have the tanks removed, plumbing adjusted etc at a later date, when the cash was in hand to do that and the bathroom at the same time. However, on reflection, it perhaps makes more sense to have all the "infrastructure" work (also going to go through a rewire, fortunately my dad is a sparky, so that helps save some money) done up-front, before we move in / start decorating so that we dont have to move everything / destroy my lovely handiwork at a later stage.
With the requirement for removal of storage tanks to make more space (coupled with the fact that we use very little hot water, just a couple of showers each day and the odd bit of hand washing), a combi boiler seemed the right way to go for us, so am after the following advice / information if you're willing and able?
* Recommendations for heating engineers in the hertfordshire (Letchworth) area.
* Recommendations for boilers (see house info below if it's useful?)
* Any specific questions I ought to ask any heating engineers to sort the gooduns from the badduns?
* An idea of the number of changes which are going to be needed to the plumbing / time it's like to take / cost of installation. If any of that is even close to possible from just my description?
House:
3 storey (attic conversion) house, as follows:
- Ground floor - lounge, kitchen, garage
- 1st floor - lounge, bedroom, bathroom
- 2nd floor (attic) - bedroom
1 radiator in each room, except garage
sink in kitchen and bathroom (along with bath, loo)
electric shower in bathroom (will eventually replace with one which takes water from the combi, with a thermostatic control)
cold-fill dish washer and washing machine in kitchen
boiler in garage (where i would like to keep it)
current CH system: boiler (dont have make/model to hand) takes a gas pipe (wider bore with an adaptor at the boiler to shrink it down?), and a cold water feed, and provides a hot feed out (presumably to copper tank where heat is exchanged to CH and hot water?), in loft is a HUGE cold water tank and a smaller expansion tank for the CH system, programmer currently in bathroom, thermostat on stairs.
Price wise, happy to spend the money to get a decent boiler which will hopefully fail less than a cheapy one, but dont feel the need (unless you tell me it's really worth it?) to go for a top of the line model. When i buy a car, i'm more into reliability, ease of maintenence etc over a posh badge, same applies here
A thousand thanks for all and any help you can provide!
Gav.
