Hi all,
I'm at the start of a long renovation of my home and one of the first things I'm looking at is plumbing/electrics and looking at getting the place re-wired and having the heating system updated.
Been going back and forth on what to upgrade the current vented boiler/water tank with and thought either a combi or a system boiler would be the answer as it could improve the water pressure and we could get rid of the manky water tanks in the loft.
Anyway - I had an engineer from a national gas/heating company out to have a look and he says that at least some (probably all) of the heating pipework is something called Truwell - which was an alloy that was used in the 70s due to a shortage of copper. According to the engineer this stuff needs to go.
I'm anticipating a monster quote for all this work so I wondered if anyone on here would consider tackling some of this themselves? I'm a fairly competent DIYer but not sure if I could handle removing all of the old pipework and re-installing a new system. As the house is in need of a full renovation I don't need to be too precious about things. I would obviously leave the boiler/tank/gas work to a certified professional.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I'm at the start of a long renovation of my home and one of the first things I'm looking at is plumbing/electrics and looking at getting the place re-wired and having the heating system updated.
Been going back and forth on what to upgrade the current vented boiler/water tank with and thought either a combi or a system boiler would be the answer as it could improve the water pressure and we could get rid of the manky water tanks in the loft.
Anyway - I had an engineer from a national gas/heating company out to have a look and he says that at least some (probably all) of the heating pipework is something called Truwell - which was an alloy that was used in the 70s due to a shortage of copper. According to the engineer this stuff needs to go.
I'm anticipating a monster quote for all this work so I wondered if anyone on here would consider tackling some of this themselves? I'm a fairly competent DIYer but not sure if I could handle removing all of the old pipework and re-installing a new system. As the house is in need of a full renovation I don't need to be too precious about things. I would obviously leave the boiler/tank/gas work to a certified professional.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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