Boiler, Hot Water, Central HEating or Underfloor heating

itn

Hi, ill be moving into 1930`s semi detached property, the elderly gentleman who lived has the old electric heaters in each room, old ones with bright orange filament when switched on.

There is no central heating at the moment, and so will need to fit in a new Hot water system.

Requirements:

1. Good flow rate
2. Instant hot water, cant be dealing with waiting to war up water.
3. Reliable
4. economical

What are my options?

Im not so sure about having central heating fitted or going with underfloor heating?..

can i have a boiler fitted and have UFH?

advice please??

economiser

Unless you have electric heating you would have to have a boiler with underfloor heating. Underfloor heating may not be practical with a 1930's semi. if you have suspended floors. I think it it would certainly be the most expensive option.

I would have thought your choice was between a conventional radiator system with hot water storage or a combination boiler. The later is more compact and would be cheaper to install but depending on the water pressure available you may find the limited supply of hot water a problem. For example you may find a person having a nice hot shower suddenly gets a somewhat cooler shower if someone turns on a hot tap elsewhere in the house.

bruce2110

right in answer to question... how long is a peice of string!!!!

firstly - how many bedrooms do you have?

2) how many wetrooms(bathrooms/ensuits ect)

3) how many ground floor rooms?

do you intend to tile the entire ground floor or combine with wood flooring as well?

if its a 1930's house, what type of floor do you have? ie floor boards or concrete.

you really need to decide on the above issues for anyone to give you good advice on suitable heating systems...

however, i would recomend a system boiler and and pressurised hot water cylinder. this would be able to provide adequate heating including UFH or radiators, pressurised cylinder would provide decent hot water pressure eliminating the need for shower pumps plus allowing mutiple draw-offs without affecting the pressure of the system.

with a pressurised system of heating and hot water, you would also eliminate the need for tanks in the loft which could present easier expansion options if you decide to convert the loft at a later date.

this option though, would not be cheap, it would run into several thousand pounds.

you could go down the route of having a combination boiler, this would provide pressurised hot water without the need to store any tanks of hot water, you would still be able to do away with the tanks in the loft as well.

as far as the heating goes, you would need to install a rather large combi boiler to satisfy your heating and hot water requirements if you wanted UFH.
but i have to admit i'm not much of expert on the sizing of combi boilers as i only install them to smaller propertys, but i'm sure there are guys on here who could offer better advice regarding combi boilers though.

anyway, hth!

Bruce2110

itn

economiser - i ment electric UFH, ta

bruse2110 - 3 bedroom semi, 1 bathroom upstairs, downstairs is 1 through lounge condervatory and a kitchen, and a hallway.

im considering laminated flooring, maybe carpets in rooms, ive been told i can get UFH for under carpets.. it would be electric and not a wet UFH.

i popped into a local plumbing and heating place who has quoted me between £4000 and £4500 for a full install of boiler, and radiators for my property, a bit on the high side i thought...

regards

itn