Which brand of pushfit & relocating a boiler?

[Sybaritic]

Advise appreciated please. I'm currently rennovating a 4 bed Edwardian property. Stripping out is just about complete - everything has been removed, steel gas pipe, gas lighting pipes, cloth insulated cable etc.

I'm in the middle of making decisions about what to install, I've already decided on push-fit plastic for the CH and DWS to cut down the fit-out time.
Q then, is what's the general preference re brands, cost is a consideration, but not the only one. My thoughts were either Polyblumb or JG Speedfit for both the heating and the water?

Next Q, the old - but never seems to have been used - multipoint boiler has been removed from the an awkward wall in the kitchen as all the plaster had blown. I'd like to relocate this to an old outside toilet attached to the main building. The privvy has been stripped to bare bricks and has had a rotten window removed. Due to the flu on the old boiler it has to go on this wall, which currently has a 3ft by 2ft windown shaped hole.
So second Q, can the boilder be temporarily mounted on board (ply, builders' etc) which is attached to the wall until the brickwork is made good? I understand that if I brick up the old window so there's just the flu there probably isn't going to be enough air getting under the old toilet door to sustain the gas burn?
How do I overcome this please?

 

[gremlin16]

if I brick up the old window so there's just the flu there probably isn't going to be enough air getting under the old toilet door to sustain the gas burn?
How do I overcome this please?

Easy answer, employ someone that knows what thier doing eg gas/heating installer.

 

[Sybaritic]

if I brick up the old window so there's just the flu there probably isn't going to be enough air getting under the old toilet door to sustain the gas burn?
How do I overcome this please?

Easy answer, employ someone that knows what thier doing eg gas/heating installer.

Having been stiffed on the purchase price that's not so easy...

 

[Tibbot]

can the boilder be temporarily mounted on board (ply, builders' etc) which is attached to the wall until the brickwork is made good? ?

Your post is probably and wind-up. In case it isn't. There's no such thing as 'temporary' with gas work.

 

[Sybaritic]

can the boilder be temporarily mounted on board (ply, builders' etc) which is attached to the wall until the brickwork is made good? ?

Your post is probably and wind-up. In case it isn't. There's no such thing as 'temporary' with gas work.

It certainly isn't a wind-up. The old boiler has life in it - I want it to run for a year or 2 and then it'll be replaced. I'm carrying out the chasing and socket sinking, laying of conduiting etc of the electrics. The gas boiler will be used for the CH and DHWS. When it gets changed I'd like to install a solar CH system, so I don't want to go an buy a new combi boiler straight away.

The current thinking is to use trackpipe for the GS to the oven and the boiler rather than copper and have a someone GasSafe test and sign off the system before it's connected up.

 

[sooey]

Best of luck with that one.

 

[Sybaritic]

Best of luck with that one.

Thanks I'm enjoying the chasing. BTW the change of the boiler location, trackpipe etc is at the suggestion of my local plumber, who is now on holiday, so I'm not plucking this stuff out of thin air.
In my area of SW London sticking the boilder in the old outside toilet is now standard, due to the cost per sq ft of the property.

 

[mickyg]

you cant mount it on ply. period. Any work you do on the gas will be illegal, signed off or not. If your thinking of re-fitting the water heater yourself, then I would respectfully suggest you reconsider and get the work carried out by someone qualified.

 

[Tibbot]

have a someone GasSafe test and sign off the system before it's connected up.

Again there's no such thing as 'signing off'. That's why it's called a 'SELF Certification Scheme'.

 

[Sybaritic]

you cant mount it on ply. period. Any work you do on the gas will be illegal, signed off or not. If your thinking of re-fitting the water heater yourself, then I would respectfully suggest you reconsider and get the work carried out by someone qualified.

Thanks - at least it's a definitive answer. I'm not really inclinded to do the gas work myself, just prepping for a fitter and buying materials - but I'd like to know what the regs are before talking it over/how much making good the old outside loo requires to make it suitable. So advice as to whether the balance of cost for say trackpipe V conventional 22mm copper & fitting is worth it and what plastic system is generally preferred would be appreciated. I am intending to install the push-fit CH and DWS unless the quote I'm waiting for is competitive. The new water mains has already gone in without any issue.