Hello.
I live in a 1930's mid terraced 3 bedroom house and about to pull the trigger on a loft extension and ground floor refurb. We need as much space as possible (can't afford to move) so as a result we will have to remove the cold water tanks from the loft.
The loft extension will mean that we end up with 2 bathrooms - the en-suite in the loft and the family bathroom to the first floor. Since our current central heating system is working off of a single pipe setup, we're going to pretty much start again and install new boiler and feed and return pipework.
So here's the problem. I want to install a combi boiler to supply the house with it's hot water, but having read a little I'm starting to think that it might not be quite up for the job. Being realistic, It would only be rare that both shower and bath/shower would be used at the same time, but my kids are getting older so I can't really determine what the demand will look like in a few years time.
Ideally, I'd like a combi to be installed in to the kitchen and be hidden behind a cupboard, but then maybe I'm after too much.
Although I haven't planned for it, I suspect I could fit a megaflow in the loft somewhere, but again, that's going to eat up space which we really don't want to do unless we have to.
So the question is... Given a clean slate, what options do you think I could consider here?
Thanks in advance,
Dave.
I live in a 1930's mid terraced 3 bedroom house and about to pull the trigger on a loft extension and ground floor refurb. We need as much space as possible (can't afford to move) so as a result we will have to remove the cold water tanks from the loft.
The loft extension will mean that we end up with 2 bathrooms - the en-suite in the loft and the family bathroom to the first floor. Since our current central heating system is working off of a single pipe setup, we're going to pretty much start again and install new boiler and feed and return pipework.
So here's the problem. I want to install a combi boiler to supply the house with it's hot water, but having read a little I'm starting to think that it might not be quite up for the job. Being realistic, It would only be rare that both shower and bath/shower would be used at the same time, but my kids are getting older so I can't really determine what the demand will look like in a few years time.
Ideally, I'd like a combi to be installed in to the kitchen and be hidden behind a cupboard, but then maybe I'm after too much.
Although I haven't planned for it, I suspect I could fit a megaflow in the loft somewhere, but again, that's going to eat up space which we really don't want to do unless we have to.
So the question is... Given a clean slate, what options do you think I could consider here?
Thanks in advance,
Dave.