Boiler question

[H0ckeynut]

Hi.

I have a few questions about combi boilers which I hope you can help with. Mostly around me trying to find the best place in my house to put it. At the moment, the favourite is to wall mount it in my utility room, over the washing machine & worktop. Other alternatives are bathroom (prefer not to), or a recess in the middle of my terrace house. But this isn't so close to the places where the hot water needs to go!

I've seen an installation recently, which seemed to take up nearly all of an old hot water cylinder kind of room. So what I'm wondering is if I'd have any worktop left below it, after the boiler is fitted and connection. It didn't look too bad until I saw that magnetic system cleaner sat below it. Can the position of that be altered from not immediately directly below? Then I push the rest of the pipes back against the wall and box them in. The size boiler I'm looking at is probably the Baxi Duotech (about 30kw) size.

The location in the middle of the house could be good, but the extractor pipe distance would have a be about 4 meters away, would that be a problem?

Lastly, I wondered how noisy they are when running. As I've not found any info on that in the specifications. What might it be comparable to?

Thanks,
David

 

[bengasman]

The best position for the filter is between the last tee in the return pipe, and the boiler.
If you want a cheap boiler that is not a total disaster, baxi is not too bad, but quite noisy. If you want a quiet boiler, Worcester Bosch or Vaillant; they are a lot better as well. Not as cheap of course.
For boiler location you should really talk to your installer as you are bound to overlook some issues, and create one or two that are not really there.

 

[baxpoti]

Duo-tecs are not noisy

If they are the comb box door is loose or the the plastic/rubber grommets holding the cables and pipes are not located correctly