DIY : How do I install Central Heating?

Venomgrass

Hi I'm considering moving into an old 3 storey house, which currently has no CH and uses storage heaters and Immersion tank heater for DHW.

How difficult is it to install the central heating pipes myself, are there any guides. I'll be using radiators in most rooms and most of the time we plan to only have a few rooms with the radiators on so would need a system to control this.

As for the boiler either a gasifying log burner with an accumulation tank, or a gas boiler if I can get a supply linked up. Would this affect the basic laying of the pipes and radiators?

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System

I believe you can do most of the basic work yourself i.e. hanging radiators but you will need someone gas safe to connect it up.

SailorSam

Some GasSafe engineers may not want to do the final fitting of just the boiler 'cos he's signing it off as all working properly. I think that would mean he'd have to check your work. If that was the case it maybe better to give him the whole job. If you were to try and call him back if there was a fault on the boiler, he could use your work as the cause.

izzy65

Hi, with respect to doing the work and getting a gas safe engineer to sign it off , my brother did all the pipe work in my mums house and got British Gas to come and do the final connect, the engineer reported there was a leak and to have all the joints checked, turned out it was his final joint that was leaking, one red faced engineer, they were reasonable price wise too.

Doozergirl

Interesting to read 'British Gas' and 'reasonably priced' in the same sentence.

brightontraveller

Venomgrass wrote: »

Hi I'm considering moving into an old 3 storey house, which currently has no CH and uses storage heaters and Immersion tank heater for DHW.

How difficult is it to install the central heating pipes myself, are there any guides. I'll be using radiators in most rooms and most of the time we plan to only have a few rooms with the radiators on so would need a system to control this.

As for the boiler either a gasifying log burner with an accumulation tank, or a gas boiler if I can get a supply linked up. Would this affect the basic laying of the pipes and radiators?

:beer:

How easy depends on your ability intallation , ease of assess building structure routing etc plenty of guides after you've decided on a system and installation method Most gas engineers are happy to connect in new boiler after households run all the pipe work to a certain point say meter or two from final boiler position they will then fix boiler to wall, fit gas pipe from meter and do the last bits of the connections termination to boiler etc easy money and if the central heating leaks and its not on any of the pipe work they have fitted they have no responsibility.. Charges anywhere from £500.- £1500 and most likely done in a day maybe more to if there lazy lol