hi, im trying to price up a a small 2 bedroom bungalow which will be built and we might sell on. Iv had experiance with underfloor and too much experiance with rads. Now they reackon running cost of underfloor is 25-40% cheaper due to lower temps. And one company claimed it take 40% less time to...
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Due to the economic climate I have now had to come back to the home ownership market - I have just purchased a small bungalow that needs complete renovation and main part is heating boiler - the property has oil fired boiler which is years old - I have had a heating engineer out to give me a...
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My mum who is 73 has recently moved house to a bungalow where she cannot have her central heating on without the hot water also coming on. This annoys her as she feels it must be bumping up her gas bills. She has had a quote for "separating" the systems, which is about £2300 inclusive of VAT...
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I have an overflow leak from my hot water tank header tank, not difficult to fix in itself, but the tank is in the roof of a chalet style bungalow, where the clearance between the top of the tank and the inner roof space is too small to get access to. Would I need to consider, removing part of...
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I'm halfway through building a 50sqm bungalow in London. It will be highly insulated so I won't need a heating system too much. At some point I may install a solar water heater or a air source heat pump
I want to use wet underfloor heating but I'm unsure how to combine this with my hot water...
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I am just about to move into a 3 bed semi bungalow.It has a back boiler which needs removing and six rads so far i've had three plumbers over to give me a quote,two suggested a vaillant and the other prefered glow worm,but i gather they are much the same.Condensing boiler seems to be the...
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Hi Everyone,
I am new here, and have joined after coming across the site searching for an answer to my question on google :)
Anyway I hope you can help me, I have recently finished an extension on the house, apart from a larger kitchen we now have a utilty / cloakroom next to the main...
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Hi
I have recently moved into a bungalow that has a Potterton 100e bolier in the roof. There are a few issues that i could do with some advice on.
1. When i turn on the hot water tap, it shoots out under pressuer but takes maybe a minute to become hot. this wastes a huge amount of water.
2...
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I am an OAP and live in a 1930's semi 2 bed bungalow(5 rooms in all), with a 20 year old floor mounted Potterton boiler. British Gas came to service and basically condemed it.
I have a visit from one of their advisors on Saturday and I am concerned they may blind me with science and recommend...
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Have recently had a condensing boiler fitted Worcester Greenstar 30si, along with a wireless room stat Siemens RDJ10RF, We have this set at 20 degrees but have noticed that say if it is reading 17degrees when we switch heating on the temp will gradually rise but go to 21 or 21.5 then switch off...
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I live in a bungalow and due to height restrictions in the loft the intaller laid the tank on its side, many moons ago.
I was checking the insulation on the tank and noted that the stat was well ABOVE the horizontal centre line and set at 50C.
This expains why we sometimes run short of hot...
plotnine
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hi new to forums so ihope i dont mess this up- here goes
in the attached is a(rough) drawing of a dual ch system.the house is about 1800 sq ftand about 50 ft long with hot press in the middle. the boiler is pretty big 120000btu output the bb hasnot been sized yet(but mid to large size i expect)...
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I have 3 bed bungalow with 30" lounge with old type storage heaters,
there is no mains gas,so--
What with latest fan assisted storage heaters, or, go bottled gas or oil???
whats going to be cheapest to run`?????
I use oil in my works , and that`s doubled !!!!
Back to burning free...
joner7777
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Good mornings,
I'm in the middle of quoting my first Power Shower, the customer has his heart set on a Mira Event XS Thermostatic to replace the old thermo mixer unit.
Its a bungalow, dedicated tank feed hot/cold (proven), good pressure, hot water cylinder and cold water storage cylinder of...
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Any suggestion sof what to start looking at trying will very appreciated.
A couple of months ago we moved into our Bungalow, it's had a small extension on the back of the kitchen with a Rad added t-ing off from the bedrrom rad (the last one on the circuit.) The 'extra' rad (in the extension)...
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