Recent content by nic11

Sorry, was more aimed at those shocked that I have an electric shower.

We had our son stay with us through covid due to a break up and I forget the number of times I berated him as he used to turn the shower on, go get ready for five mins or so before getting a shower as he was used to a shower that was fed from a HWT. A couple of the plumbers did ask if we wanted...

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The timer is set that way, isn't usually on for long in the morning. we probably use a quarter or less of the tank a day.

Electric shower is a thermo regulated one that does constant temp. It starts to heat the water first and then turns the flow on. I hear the boiler fire up in the morning and evening (but over the summer not for long). My obvious ignorance thinking it costs more that way. What do people think...

Yup, heats up the cold water itself. Only me and the wife for the last 10 years, previous owners were an old couple who's lived here for 30+. So can't see the current boiler have had a lot of welly, but who knows. Part of my thinking do I replace whilst I have the money now, or wait until it...

Forgive the naivety - heat only, as in just for CH? We would still some hot water? My thinking is if a plumber is decent they'll give both quotes, but if they are pushing for a new boiler option only, that might be £££££. My concern over a new system completely is whether it could cope. The...

Already had the manual (when we first moved in the boiler had a fault and diagnosis from the manual was a replacement control board. Did that and it fixed it, no problems since), but thanks :)

Current boiler is a Ideal HE18, which I think is a condensing boiler (?). Should I be asking also for a quote to just replace the HWT, system clean, and boiler service.

feed/expansion tank (with ball float valve). It's a 30 year old gas boiler (ideal) with a vented HWT that supplies about approx 1bar pressure hot water (installed a mixer tap when put in new kitchen and hot water was a trickle so after research got one where the min pressure was 0.5 and that's...

Sounds good. I have one who's a big company so suspect they might not be the installer, but I guess smaller companies might outsource so probably a good question to ask, thanks. I have 2 personal recommendations and 3 from checkatrade.

It would need replacing I believe as when the boiler is running (hot water only) the overflow from the expansion tank drips. We don't have a bath, so hot water is used just for the kitchen sink. Seemed wasteful to have the boiler fire up to heat a big water tank for that. Why would a big KW for...

Sorry misunderstood the section heading. Not really looking for quotes on here, that's why arranging for local quotes elsewhere.

I am aiming to get a new gas combi boiler (have a boiler & HWT system) and starting arranging to get a bunch of quotes. What should I be asking to ensure I get the information I need to decide between them. Don't want to just go for the cheapest (or most expensive thinking that'll be best)...

No, but it seems that it's likely one of those (now thinking about it), thanks. My wife had a stroke almost two weeks ago, so there was an ambulance crew round and I think they did a test as part of their assessment.