OK, I was going by your original post referring to a conventional system, hadn't noticed the one about a possible combi. But it seems the existing boiler is OK so I'd have thought sorting the system out would be better than changing to a combi.
well the issue is: I have a baxi back boiler with electric fire front (don’t want this long term it’s ugly)
plumber says the rads are old and rusted.
Says even if you change rads you still have crap in the boiler itself and in the pipes. So might get the same problem.
so kind of said you can change rads and he can flush the pipes but still might have the same issue.
the other issue is I am fitting new flooring. Given eventually I would prefer not to have a crap old electric fire in my dining room, I would need to change one day anyway.
My head is spinning on this and I don’t understand it well enough to really consider the options.
The other thing to mention is the heating system is terrible - never gets above 20 degrees in the winter.
so obv the rads need changing….the bit I am struggling with is he said that without new pipes/boiler, you may just get the same problem as the rust crap is prob in the boiler, tank and pipes. Is this true?
The more I think of it: the poor performance, the fact i am doing flooring now which I don’t want to rip up, the ugly baxi fire in dining room and the other thing - I could do with space in the airing cupboard…the more I think about it the more a new install seems appealing.
then on the other hand. My boiler works (poorly, but it works). Could I just flush it all as best I can, put on rads and just deal with it if I have to get the laminate up?
this is doing my head in
