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I have been going round in circles trying to decide the best way to upgrade the CH of our 2.5 bedroom single glazed cottage. Currently we have a conventional system with tanks in the attic and HWC in the bathroom cupboard. There is an approx 30 year old AGA oil fired boiler which has not put a foot wrong since we moved in at the start of winter. We are going to be building a small extension this year and want to get the system upgraded at the same time (boiler location needs to be moved also).
The options I am considering are:
1) replace boiler with new one and keep the system as it is (with minor alterations to account for new boiler location) - heating engineer had no problems with rest of system (except oil tank will need replacing in a few years time). The engineer recommended an external boiler.
2) oil fired combi boiler - we only have one bathroom so thought this was a good option but have started to read a lot of negative things about combis. Would be nice to gain back the space of the HWC (but not essential)
3) Air source heat pump - even with adding secondary I am worried that we may not be warm enough. I was originally thinking we go for UFH but would require disruption of digging down. I feel like this option will require lots of rads and take up valuable space in our small house.
I know that it is probably difficult to say over a forum without all the information but does option 1 seem like the sensible approach?
The options I am considering are:
1) replace boiler with new one and keep the system as it is (with minor alterations to account for new boiler location) - heating engineer had no problems with rest of system (except oil tank will need replacing in a few years time). The engineer recommended an external boiler.
2) oil fired combi boiler - we only have one bathroom so thought this was a good option but have started to read a lot of negative things about combis. Would be nice to gain back the space of the HWC (but not essential)
3) Air source heat pump - even with adding secondary I am worried that we may not be warm enough. I was originally thinking we go for UFH but would require disruption of digging down. I feel like this option will require lots of rads and take up valuable space in our small house.
I know that it is probably difficult to say over a forum without all the information but does option 1 seem like the sensible approach?