Combi boiler with built in storage tanks
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Crack on then.
Some people just won't listen. Gonna be fun when that combi (storage or otherwise) packs up...5 bed and no hot water with a disabled bathroom too.
An immersion backup would be essential for me. Perhaps have an electric shower in one of the bathrooms?
An immersion backup would be essential for me. Perhaps have an electric shower in one of the bathrooms?
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As long as there are two immersion heaters in the cylinder. No good only being able to heat up half a cylinder. He doesn’t want stored hot water though.
The 29kw in your existing combi boiler will be enough to heat up your radiators. So to save money just cap off the hot water side to your combi. Effectively making it a heat only boiler. No need to throw away a perfectly good boiler.
Then purchase an on demand water heater. It will be smaller than your combi. Maybe put them side by side. A gas pipework upgrade will obviously be needed. Just need an engineer to steer you in the right direction to what Gas powered water heater to go for. Unless you’ve got a weir gauge and can work out how many litres you are going to need?
I hate combi boilers you have no argument from me there.
Is there no loft? You're starting to sound like one of those people who appear on here from time to time, looking not for advice but instead for professional confirmation of a decision they've already made. Like so many before you, you're now upset because you've been told your plan won't work satisfactorily.
As Dan says, crack on if you're determined that this is what you want. It's a decent boiler, and I happen to know that Dan has experience fitting them, it's just not really suitable for your property
And it wasn't a great experience either
Shame Intergas won't bring out an updated Prestige here .So just to update everyone here after having the said boiler installed now for about 5 days. We have been able to run two showers at the same time and a the kitchen tap running, all without any problems and that is without having separate dedicated pipes going to the loft bathroom from the boiler (so the first floor and loft floor share the same historic single pipe - not ideal but seems to have worked surprisingly).
They can me old chum. You will have to catch up with products on the market. And how they are piped up.
Or have an in-line instant electric water heater in the shower supply pipe, for backup only.
The Vitodens 111-W has a good reputation.
Twitchy electrics, rubber hoses, pizz awkward access to the pump at the back even with plenty of access to the side. Mickey Mouse casing.
Performance is pretty good as the cylinder is plate loaded.
Better value than the 222.
There would have to be very good reason for me to fit another.
Performance is pretty good as the cylinder is plate loaded.
Better value than the 222.
There would have to be very good reason for me to fit another.
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