cost to add in central heating upstairs

[zuber ali]

Hi asking a piece of string question here so after a ball park figure.

i am looking at purchasing a property, there is currently central heating serving all of the ground floor although on a very old boiler, the heating does not extend to serve the first floor (standard 3 bed semi and bathroom).

any ball park ideas of what this would cost in london assuming the boiler needs to also be changed as not adequetly sized. not looking for a exact figure but just back of fag packet guess.

thanks if you can help

 

[CountryFan]

That really is a piece of string question and unlikely to get a ball park figure except for something ridiculous like £20k. Don’t assume anything and obtain at least 3 quotes. Boiler might be old but working.

 

[foxhole]

Had a new boiler installed , pipework to first floor rerouted, along with gas work £1600, but I installed all the rads myself. Few years ago so probably looking at double that or more.

 

[Murdochcat]

If you can it would make sense to split upstairs and down And have a thermostats per floor

 

[Justin Passing]

The reply for a renter would be nothing like that for your forever house.
2 quick guys could throw a whole system in in 2 days, materials (I'm out of date so guessing a bit, well under 2k.) plus labour.
OTOH a good combi boiler could cost you over 2k.
If things are awkward, it can take a number of man-days to change a boiler
Depends if the house is stripped - no carpets etc, where the pipes have to go, if the gas main is big enough, etc etc.
Look even on ebay, you'll see cheap quotes.
If the boiler's old, it's probably for the skip.
Old rads can look pretty naff too.

But if someone cheap is prepared to connect to what you have and put 4 rads in, that's minimum one day's work and 2-3 hundred in parts.

 

[Mottie]

My mate has not long bought a 5 bed house. The upstairs underfloor heating was useless so he had it all taken out and rads put in. Had some heating and plumbing to a downstairs bathroom, a bit of correction work to the boiler piping and a service on the oil boiler. I think he had some new controls fitted too. He had it done while he was away on holiday and he took up all the floorboards before he went and refitted them when he came home. Cost him £9k