Does this boiler calculation sound right?

[D_Hailsham]

In the London area most pre 1940 houses have solid walls !

It must depend on which part of London you mean and who the builder was. Costains started using cavity walls in 1924.

Cavity walls were originally used on houses which were exposed to heavy rain, e.g seaside properties. The outside skin prevented the inside one getting damp.

 

[twgas]

My house is 1930s and has cavity walls.
Hands up anyone who has cavity walls...

 

[ianniann]

No cavity in mine, just a soft fluffy filling

 

[spacecat]

went back to have a look at the house today (moving in next week)
and the boiler is a big floorstanding Marathon Myson.
It was on and the radiators seemed nice and hot and a new honeywell thermostat had been fitted in the hallway.The hosue has not been lived in properly for 6 months but felt warm


The boiler itself seemed like it had been well maintained and was very clean.

Do you think i should just leave it and wait until it packs up or rip out and replace?

My current boiler is also a marathon Myson and has been going steady for 15 years no probs

can you get parts for them if needed?

 

[D_Hailsham]

the boiler is a big floor-standing Marathon Myson. It was on and the radiators seemed nice and hot and a new Honeywell thermostat had been fitted in the hallway.The house has not been lived in properly for 6 months but felt warm

The boiler itself seemed like it had been well maintained and was very clean.

But did your surveyor ask for info about the service history of the boiler? Any one can give it a bit of spit and polish, particularly when they want to sell the house.

Do you think i should just leave it and wait until it packs up or rip out and replace?

The normal advice to someone contemplating replacing a working boiler is to wait until it breaks down. If it can be repaired and is economical to repair, then it should be repaired.

As for doing it now, you have to list all the tasks you intend to do in the house - redecoration, new kitchen, new bathroom etc etc, then cost and prioritize them. Obviously, if you are putting a new kitchen in, then that is the time to change the boiler (assuming it is in the kitchen) as you don't want the upheaval twice.

 

[spacecat]

But did your surveyor ask for info about the service history of the boiler? Any one can give it a bit of spit and polish, particularly when they want to sell the house.

Apparently it has been serviced and wea re going to get it done via our own current BG contract

Do you think i should just leave it and wait until it packs up or rip out and replace?

The normal advice to someone contemplating replacing a working boiler is to wait until it breaks down. If it can be repaired and is economical to repair, then it should be repaired.

As for doing it now, you have to list all the tasks you intend to do in the house - redecoration, new kitchen, new bathroom etc etc, then cost and prioritize them. Obviously, if you are putting a new kitchen in, then that is the time to change the boiler (assuming it is in the kitchen) as you don't want the upheaval twice.[/quote]

We will be putting in a new kitchen at some point but want to live in the place for a while before decding what we want to exactly so we dont rush in and then think we wished we had done it differently

 

[D_Hailsham]

Then I would leave the boiler until you do the kitchen - unless it packs up completely.

I see you haven't quite got the hang of using quotes. There must be a [quote] at the beginning and a [/quote] at the end. It's like brackets in an equation, they come in pairs. So if you have one quote inside another you do this:

[quote]Blah Blah
[quote]Rhubarb Rhubarb[/quote][/quote]

Which turns out as

Blah Blah

Rhubarb Rhubarb

The Preview facility is very useful when quoting.

 

[ianniann]

I think others have mentioned here that replacing a working boiler with a more efficient one is at best marginally cost effective. It's hard to be precise because you simply can't put reliable numbers on how long the old one might last or cost to repair and how long the new one might last before it also needs work.

The boiler scrappage scheme bribe possibly pushed the balance towards making it worth buying a new one, but that's finished at least for now.