Gents,
During a recent 'Service', our boiler was condemed
We have a medium size 4 bedroom detatched house, with 10 rooms over 3 floors (including 2 bathrooms), 11 Rads (3 of which are doubles) and 11 sash windows plus the conservatory, which is half glass (6 windows and a polyboard roof)
Now I do realise that the old boiler was only about 16 Kw but the heating engineer wants to replace it with a Worcester greenstar 18 RDI...which to me means doing a like for like - no brainer kind of sizing for the new boiler, but from what little research i have done I get the feeling that this is not really adequte for a couple of reasons.
Firstly - I heard the heating engineer who switch off our old boiler tell him that ' for a house of this size- you'd need about a 24kw'er'......and since then I have called a heating supplier who estimated the exact same size over the phone based on the little information I gave them- as above.
i know its not accurate...but ballpark is good enough to confirm my concerns?
I'm concerned that although I have expressed this opinion but that he is still insisting that the boiler will be more than 'adequate' as it's moe powerful than our old boiler.
That may be the case but our old boiler never really gave the house a tropical feel......
I can't help thinking he's offloading a boiler he has in stock as I have said I am willing to pay extra for something a bit more manly. but he won't entertain it.
Any comments/advice on size would be more than welcome
During a recent 'Service', our boiler was condemed
We have a medium size 4 bedroom detatched house, with 10 rooms over 3 floors (including 2 bathrooms), 11 Rads (3 of which are doubles) and 11 sash windows plus the conservatory, which is half glass (6 windows and a polyboard roof)
Now I do realise that the old boiler was only about 16 Kw but the heating engineer wants to replace it with a Worcester greenstar 18 RDI...which to me means doing a like for like - no brainer kind of sizing for the new boiler, but from what little research i have done I get the feeling that this is not really adequte for a couple of reasons.
Firstly - I heard the heating engineer who switch off our old boiler tell him that ' for a house of this size- you'd need about a 24kw'er'......and since then I have called a heating supplier who estimated the exact same size over the phone based on the little information I gave them- as above.
i know its not accurate...but ballpark is good enough to confirm my concerns?
I'm concerned that although I have expressed this opinion but that he is still insisting that the boiler will be more than 'adequate' as it's moe powerful than our old boiler.
That may be the case but our old boiler never really gave the house a tropical feel......
I can't help thinking he's offloading a boiler he has in stock as I have said I am willing to pay extra for something a bit more manly. but he won't entertain it.
Any comments/advice on size would be more than welcome