Advise on best heating & shower solution.

leo25

I am close to getting an two bathrooms in a 3 bed detached house refurbished and I thought thinking about shower types it would make sense to install a new heating system in order to ensure compatibility.
My existing system comprise the old style cold water in loft and
hot water tank in airing cupboard i.e stored hot water backed up with a boiler installed when house was built in 1988 (Glow-worm fuel saver MK.2).Incoming mains pressure is average at approx.10 litres per minute. I am also running x2 power showers on mira event and one aqulisha giving flow rates of 16 L/M & 18 L/M respectively. Shower lasts a maximum of 9-12 minutes.
With this background in mind can anybody advise on the best system solution bearing in mind I prefer a powerful shower of roughly 20-25 minutes if possible. Any advise on best brands or cost would be appreciated.

Flooky

The best thing to do is get a heating engineer who can design your system based on your needs. Without knowing all the parameters it's difficult to give you advice without being heavily formed on opinion.

plumb1_2

Look into having a pressurised cylinder

leo25

Thanks for your comments. I have had another experienced installer visit today they suggest a viesmann system boiler controlled with outdoor temp.sensor combined with a 250 litre tank (standard I think) located in garage. They suggested this would combine well with my existing power showers. The cold water loft tank would be taken out. How does this sound?

SuzieSue

You should post this question in the main DIY part of the forum (not the Is This Quote Fair part as you have not had a quote yet).

Hopefully you will get more responses.

leo25

Instruction on how to transfer please?

SuzieSue

leo25 wrote: »

Instruction on how to transfer please?

You can't transfer this thread, so just start a new thread on the main board, but remember to edit your first post on this thread (at the beginning of the post) to say that you have re-posted on the main DIY board as people get annoyed if they don't know it has also been posted somewhere else.

southcoastrgi

I've asked Nile to move it for you

Then I'll put my 5p's worth in which already will disagree with 2 posts on your thread

leo25

Please give me your advise as I am still looking for a solution?
The priority is flow rate and shower duration I am not a big user of central heating only had it on for a couple of hours all winter.

garryselby

I would consider a 28 to 30 maybe 35 but I have a 28Kw boiler loads of hot water .
But choice of boiler is important Baxi Duotec is good choice 7 year guarantee also consider Vaillant and Viessmann ,Do not put any boiler with a Aluminum heat ex changer takes too long to say why basically servicing time and Rubish , Bosch have them .
If you want it to last 20 years not 10 put a Magnaclean in and put inhibitor in every year or at start 6 months and clean it . I could spend few pages telling you it saves 6% on gas but will save on maintenance so keep it short ,how do I know this works we own about 40 boilers and my bill as gone from thousands to small hundreds on maintenance and breakdowns after practicing what I preach .
I dont think you need a monster boiler 30Kw will kill it only uses whats required .
We are gas safe registered and I am not here to sell so its independent not biased .

leo25

Thanks for the advice when you say 30kw is this a combi boiler or system combined with tank?