My post will be in 2 parts so please bear with me.
part one is with a problem with the current boiler system, part two will be question regarding a new boiler/heating/hot water installation.
O.k its my first post so please be gentle. I`ve tried to read the stickies.
Ideal classic boiler approx 10+ years old model NA XXXX XXXX
3 bed semi, 1940's 2 occupants, sealed system, we have a hot water tank and timer control in a big cupboard upstairs, boiler is in kitchen downstairs, cold water feed from meter in kitchen, flue on side of house gas supplied from pipe on outer wall of house. Thermostat is placed in upstairs landing and i think we have some sort of water tank in loft, not sure if thats part of heating system or not. Hope that helps people suss out our system.. oh and the pump is on the top of the boiler.
Problem: boiler was overheating cutting out, cold downstairs radiators. After ****ing my pants i spent a good 2 hours reading this website and deduced it was the pump (Many thanks). Tried to give it a tap etc but it was dead. After ringing for quotes on changing a new pump at the weekend, i dedided to change it myself and got a new pump, same spec from B&Q (red pump grunsof??*spelling). All went well bar trying to re open the isolation valves either side of the pump. Inlet i managed to get open again, but outlet from the pump is 3/4 open. I cannot for the life of me get it open any further. Any ideas, bar getting my kitchen very wet by manually opening it with the pump off? This i think is causing some knock on effects, ie cant put heating and hot water on at the same time, as the downstairs radiators start to cool.
Anyway as a temporary measure its ok as we can at least stay warm. We are looking at a new system so here comes part II.
My big question comes next. The house is in need of modernisation and a new boiler/ heating system is on our to do list asap.
The key to us making what we want of the house is taking back the space where the hot water tank currently occupies. (its next to the bathroom and would make a perfect shower cubile/ wet cube thingy). What are my options for not having a hot water tank? could i install a combi system to do this? we have plenty of space space in the loft is that any good?
I would also want a couple of radiators adding to the current set up (for extended living room with patio doors and one for our new kitchen (which was coal room/ utility room). Could the majority of the existing system be kept in place? like pipework to and from existing boiler, assuming it works well with the new boiler set up etc?
ideally i need an expert to look at this and suggest a solution (s) to us keeping the boiler in kitchen and taking back the hot water cylinder space, anyone in the Worcestershire area who really knows there systems? or recomend anyone?. We have the money to rennovate the house but i see the heating/hot water system as the foundation bit ready for us to get cracking with the rest of the house. It will after all have an impact on what we can and cant do. So i want this sorted as the first step, or at least know where i am limited.
or if anyone can recomend some good websites/ reading material i dont mind having to self educate myself and then trying to find a decent plumber/ heating engineer and tell him what we want.
If anyone can help or point me in right direction i would be very grateful. This is our first house and getting used to DIY is killing me, even as a so called very young civil engineer.
Regards
Alex
part one is with a problem with the current boiler system, part two will be question regarding a new boiler/heating/hot water installation.
O.k its my first post so please be gentle. I`ve tried to read the stickies.
Ideal classic boiler approx 10+ years old model NA XXXX XXXX
3 bed semi, 1940's 2 occupants, sealed system, we have a hot water tank and timer control in a big cupboard upstairs, boiler is in kitchen downstairs, cold water feed from meter in kitchen, flue on side of house gas supplied from pipe on outer wall of house. Thermostat is placed in upstairs landing and i think we have some sort of water tank in loft, not sure if thats part of heating system or not. Hope that helps people suss out our system.. oh and the pump is on the top of the boiler.
Problem: boiler was overheating cutting out, cold downstairs radiators. After ****ing my pants i spent a good 2 hours reading this website and deduced it was the pump (Many thanks). Tried to give it a tap etc but it was dead. After ringing for quotes on changing a new pump at the weekend, i dedided to change it myself and got a new pump, same spec from B&Q (red pump grunsof??*spelling). All went well bar trying to re open the isolation valves either side of the pump. Inlet i managed to get open again, but outlet from the pump is 3/4 open. I cannot for the life of me get it open any further. Any ideas, bar getting my kitchen very wet by manually opening it with the pump off? This i think is causing some knock on effects, ie cant put heating and hot water on at the same time, as the downstairs radiators start to cool.
Anyway as a temporary measure its ok as we can at least stay warm. We are looking at a new system so here comes part II.
My big question comes next. The house is in need of modernisation and a new boiler/ heating system is on our to do list asap.
The key to us making what we want of the house is taking back the space where the hot water tank currently occupies. (its next to the bathroom and would make a perfect shower cubile/ wet cube thingy). What are my options for not having a hot water tank? could i install a combi system to do this? we have plenty of space space in the loft is that any good?
I would also want a couple of radiators adding to the current set up (for extended living room with patio doors and one for our new kitchen (which was coal room/ utility room). Could the majority of the existing system be kept in place? like pipework to and from existing boiler, assuming it works well with the new boiler set up etc?
ideally i need an expert to look at this and suggest a solution (s) to us keeping the boiler in kitchen and taking back the hot water cylinder space, anyone in the Worcestershire area who really knows there systems? or recomend anyone?. We have the money to rennovate the house but i see the heating/hot water system as the foundation bit ready for us to get cracking with the rest of the house. It will after all have an impact on what we can and cant do. So i want this sorted as the first step, or at least know where i am limited.
or if anyone can recomend some good websites/ reading material i dont mind having to self educate myself and then trying to find a decent plumber/ heating engineer and tell him what we want.
If anyone can help or point me in right direction i would be very grateful. This is our first house and getting used to DIY is killing me, even as a so called very young civil engineer.
Regards
Alex
