Needing a bit of advice on heating and refit of bathroom.
We've decided to bite the bullet and get some big jobs out of the way in one go. The bathroom is in desperate need of updating and we need to look at heating solutions in the house too.
We have a downstairs bathroom with hot water coming from an old tank with an immersion heater installed in a cupboard adjacent to the bathroom.
Our heating is limited to 2 old night storage heaters. 1 small one in the lounge/dining room and a larger one upstairs in the main bedroom. There's also an open fire in the lounge area. So there's no heating in our kitchen, bathroom or 2nd bedroom.
We had in mind to have a new immersion tank installed, having an electric shower fitted (we currently only have the bath) and putting in underfloor heating in the lounge/dining area and bathroom as these floorings both need to come up.
So we get a plumber round to give us some advice and prices and he says don't bother with underfloor heating as it's just a fad and we should really look at a combi-boiler and have rads in each room, plus we can have a mains shower instead of an electric one.
We haven't considered having rads everywhere because the wife doesn't like central heating and we don't like the idea of our limited wall spaces being taken up by them. Plus because there's no existing plumbing upstairs won't it be costly to run pipes up there?
Anyway which sounds the best option or does anyone have any alternative options to suggest? We have no gas running to the house so electric options only. Thanks.
We've decided to bite the bullet and get some big jobs out of the way in one go. The bathroom is in desperate need of updating and we need to look at heating solutions in the house too.
We have a downstairs bathroom with hot water coming from an old tank with an immersion heater installed in a cupboard adjacent to the bathroom.
Our heating is limited to 2 old night storage heaters. 1 small one in the lounge/dining room and a larger one upstairs in the main bedroom. There's also an open fire in the lounge area. So there's no heating in our kitchen, bathroom or 2nd bedroom.
We had in mind to have a new immersion tank installed, having an electric shower fitted (we currently only have the bath) and putting in underfloor heating in the lounge/dining area and bathroom as these floorings both need to come up.
So we get a plumber round to give us some advice and prices and he says don't bother with underfloor heating as it's just a fad and we should really look at a combi-boiler and have rads in each room, plus we can have a mains shower instead of an electric one.
We haven't considered having rads everywhere because the wife doesn't like central heating and we don't like the idea of our limited wall spaces being taken up by them. Plus because there's no existing plumbing upstairs won't it be costly to run pipes up there?
Anyway which sounds the best option or does anyone have any alternative options to suggest? We have no gas running to the house so electric options only. Thanks.
Did you tell the plumber you have no gas 
