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Hi everyone... I wonder if someone can help. I have a fairly old standard gravity fed system. It is a Ideal boiler with a lifestyle 722 controller for hot water and heating with a separate mechanical room stat. Last week i had an electrician replace the room stat with a honeywell cm907...

Thanks for all the replies. The other slight complication that I should have mentioned earlier is that it is a large house with 14 radiators, some are 2.5-3KW in power so I guess that the combi might not cope with producing heating and water simultaneously? I was looking at a 37-40KW boiler...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I had a combi in my last place and was not massively impressed by it. When you opened the hot water tap it would run cold as soon as you opened it more than a little and it took 30 minutes literally to run a bath. I heard that an unvented system would sort that. It...

I am looking at putting in an unvented system but there are issues with water pressure. The water board have told me that there is three bar pressure at the main, so I can only presume that it is my pipe into the property that is restricting it. I get around 15-20l per minute. I have just...

The alternative I am considering is one of the big Valliant boilers with their unistor tanks the reason being is that they do a decent size tank so plenty of water available. They look pricey but I guess that you get what you pay for? Is that a better set up? I have a fairly big house...

The time has come to replace my 197x ideal standard boiler (huge old thing cemented into the floor) and I am considering putting in one of these ideal istor 325. My friend has just had one put in and thinks they are great. It would be great to remove the old header tanks, etc. and have just...

We have an victorian ground floor tenement flat that has mould appearing on the inside of the external walls of both the bedroom and living room (both have the wall running along the front of the property. This rises from the bottom of the wall up a couple of feet. I am planning to get a...

Thanks for the info. Sorry, I may have misquoted them and the mains flow rate is 15 lpm (he used some kind of flow meter on my outside tap). Not that keen on replacing the water main without the guarantee that I can significantly improve the flow rate. I have spoken to Scottish Water and...

I am looking at replacing my boiler with a heat bank on a vented system or an unvented system. I had British Gas in yesterday and they advised me that my mains water pressure was around 15 litres per minute and that would really defeat the benefit of using one of these systems and unless I can...

I have now spoken to British Gas and they have measured the mains water pressure and it is around 15 litres per minute - not bad, not great. I have been advised to speak to my water authority about getting this upgraded to 25 litres per minute by installing a wider bore pipe. Apparently...

that bill doesnt sound too unreasonable - I have just some off a capped rate and it has doubled - I pay almost £200 per month for gas and electric.

All, Thanks for your many detailed replies. I had not heard of or considered a thermal store and this definitely sounds worthy of consideration. I have been doing a bit of research and have a couple of further questions about this. Is it economical to keep a full tank of water permanently...

We have been in our victorian house for about 4 years and have decided to replace the boiler. The current system is a conventional vented system, microbore pipes and an early 70s ideal standard boiler and some old and some new radiators. The house is fairly large 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 4...