oil heating installation

[scrumpyjack]

Help please--can anyone advise me on the smallest oil tank size that I can get and how much bigger than the tank the slab needs to be?
If I put 30min fireboard up can I site the tank right next to the existing fence?
Can I keep the immersion heater with the new boiler?,a greenstar heatslave 12/18 combi?--the boiler will be at the back of the house a long way from the taps.

 

[doitall]

Why buy a combi if you want to keep the cylinder

 

[wilhelm]

scrumpyjack try this.

 

[oilman]

If you are going to put the tank in yourself, you will have a considerable amount of homework to do, as you will have to comply with building regs, and this will mean submitting drawings to start. If someone is installing it for you, let them worry, and advise you where necessary.

You can have any size tank you like (up to 3500 litres. I only recommend steel tanks, which you can have built to order, and to any dimensions, and painted in your choice of colour, and delivered cheaper than a plastic tank would be.

FFS don't put in a combi, unless you have lots of money.

 

[wilhelm]

hold on, you just bang in a tank, and say previous owner did it.

apparently

 

[scrumpyjack]

If you are going to put the tank in yourself, you will have a considerable amount of homework to do, as you will have to comply with building regs, and this will mean submitting drawings to start. If someone is installing it for you, let them worry, and advise you where necessary.

You can have any size tank you like (up to 3500 litres. I only recommend steel tanks, which you can have built to order, and to any dimensions, and painted in your choice of colour, and delivered cheaper than a plastic tank would be.

FFS don't put in a combi, unless you have lots of money.

oilman--No,I don't have pots of dosh-the opposite in fact, my heating is partly grant funded and I still need to add £2k.
Do you mean that combi's are expensive to buy, or to run!
Oil is expensive enough as it is!
The installers engineer even suggested that we get a small instant hot water appliance as the hot water would not come through quickly.
What sort of advice is that?