I'm doing a complete renovation on my house and the other half's uncle has decided to sort of project manage it. As part of this, the 70's 8mm microbore heating system has come out and a new boiler fitted upstairs. He has a good plumbing/heating mate, but has kindly decided to save money we're going to run in pipes etc ourselves and get him to connect up and commission.
I'm happy with this, but he's also challenged the cost of the components right down, and pointed out an offer with a really crap boiler and some rads for next to no money. I'm all for saving money but this sounds like a false economy...
Can anyone suggest a decent ish 24kw combi that I can preferably source myself to make sure I don't end up with some bag of crap that'll break down in a couple of years?
Also I'm a bit conscious of the rad sizing, I've ran the numbers through three calculators online and got wildly different results.
For example, the living room, 1 external wall (insulated cavity), solid concrete floor, dimensions 4.52m wide x 3.9m long x 2.4m high, window area 3.62m2. Results have ranged from between 3370 to 6600 btu
Any ideas? I want to get this right, don't want to have to re-do it all!
I'm happy with this, but he's also challenged the cost of the components right down, and pointed out an offer with a really crap boiler and some rads for next to no money. I'm all for saving money but this sounds like a false economy...
Can anyone suggest a decent ish 24kw combi that I can preferably source myself to make sure I don't end up with some bag of crap that'll break down in a couple of years?
Also I'm a bit conscious of the rad sizing, I've ran the numbers through three calculators online and got wildly different results.
For example, the living room, 1 external wall (insulated cavity), solid concrete floor, dimensions 4.52m wide x 3.9m long x 2.4m high, window area 3.62m2. Results have ranged from between 3370 to 6600 btu
Any ideas? I want to get this right, don't want to have to re-do it all!
