How much to replace Baxi fire with efficient heating system?

rosie383

We have a baxi bermuda gas fire with back boiler in our house. We never use the fire and now one pane of glass is broken on the front of it and we were quoted almost £300 for a replacement pane of glass.
We want rid of the fire anyway, as it a bit old fashioned looking, and as I said, we never use it anyway.
What is a reasonable price for putting in a gas central heating system? We have radiators in all the rooms, but the system we have is rubbish. we have to turn a stopcock-type thing off in the summer so we can get hot water without having all the radiators on. A couple of years ago we had it looked at by a gas engineer and he said that it was so outdated he couldn't fix it.
Everyone seems to be putting in combi-boilers now. Is that the best thing to have? At the mo, we don't have many options, and end up with masses of piping hot water that we don't need so we can have the heat on for a couple of hours.

rosie383

So, come on.... I'm sure someone out there has had central heating put in in the last year or so and could give me a rough idea of cost.
Pretty please???????????

Andy_WSM

I guess it would have helped if you'd put your thread in the heating forum!

Sunnyday

I was reading about this a couple of months ago as we too have an old baxi bermuda back boiler and fire.

Ours isn`t as old as yours seems to be though, the fire is a bit dated and we don`t use it much but the back boiler is great.

I won`t be replacing ours until absolutely necessary as it wouldn`t be cost effective for us as its still running great with low bills BUT i`ve just discovered that baxi now do new condensing back boilers.

Not sure if this is what you would be interested in but as they`re quite new it would be an option if you didn`t want to go to all the trouble of finding space for a combi.

HTH

SD

rosie383

Thanks Andy. I didn't realise there was a heating forum as well. I thought gas and electric would be the right place to put it.

Sunnyday. I don't think space would be a problem. We have spare wall space in the kitchen, and we would be able to get rid of the big hot water tank in the small bedroom, so that would free up a lot of storage space.
I will cut and paste the OP onto the heating forum. Thanks Andy.