Can two boilers become one??

[Zamarano]

Hello,

I live in a 4 bed detached bungalow which has a flat roof extension.

For some strange reason when we bought the place we were told by the current owners that the kitchen water was not heated by the boiler but instead by a small electric immersion under the sink (glorified kettle!!)

The argument is that the water from the cylinder that provides water to bathroom and toilet cannot get to the kitchen because of the distance and because the kitchen has a flat roof (something to do with gravity??)

Further to some advice I had the following done:

Worcester Bosch 26cdi Combi installed close to the other boiler which now supplies just hot water to the kitchen.

A 6ft vented cylinder thing - we have a power shower and need this apparently. Immersion timer and heater - thermostat

Separate thermostat in living room (i think it should be in the hall)
7 day electronic timer installed onto existing system glow worm boiler.

All of this cost me a lot of money, in fact I don't want to say how much!!

Now as the price of gas goes up and I start to think about the central heating system (i know very little about plumbing.heating) and ways of reducing my bills.

Can I use one boiler instead of two?? oh and I dont want a combi

 

[doitall]

Why not keep the combi and adapt the pipework to a Y plan if it isn't already, to supply the cylinder and heating, then get rid of the old boiler

 

[Zamarano]

Why not keep the combi and adapt the pipework to a Y plan if it isn't already, to supply the cylinder and heating, then get rid of the old boiler

I have thought about this. My freind whose a gas engineer said that I could convert the combi to a system boiler to do the heating and heat the cylinder.

The issue here is that he thinks the cylinder would have to be put in the loft?? (is this safe?) this could then solve the gravity issue and would require some pipe work to be externally exposed requiring insulation (from pitchroof to flat roof).

Is this what you are saying. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[doitall]

No I'm saying keep the combi supplying the kitchen and install the heating side as a Y plan with fully pumped primaries to the cylinder.

Why does it need to be moved

 

[Zamarano]

Oh right, so instead of getting water to the kitchen from the cylinder we keep it as it is and use a valve Y plan??

My question is that how would a combi supply a cylinder?

 

[doitall]

Via the heating side.

From the old boiler you have two pipes for heating and two for the cylinder primaries, your heating engineer should be able to convert them to fit the combi with a Y plan flow share valve, or 2 x single valves (S plan)