Moving Boiler

IslaView

Hi, 

We are currently looking to do up our kitchen. We plan on doing it as cheap as we can as we do not plan to stay here for more than a few more years. 

Currently the boiler is in a free standing cupboard in the kitchen. Our idea is to move it out to the shed/out house and get rid of the radiator to put in underfloor heating. This then frees up approximately 1.9m of wall and floor space meaning we can fit in more cupboards and worktop space, also making the kitchen look and flow better.

I've been quoted around £500 to move the boiler, and believe electric underfloor heating will cost around £300-£400.

Does anyone know if the extra spend on moving boiler, underfloor heating and extra cupboards will increase the house valuation sufficiently to make the extra work worthwhile?

Cheers

TheJP

IslaView said:

Hi, 

We are currently looking to do up our kitchen. We plan on doing it as cheap as we can as we do not plan to stay here for more than a few more years. 

Currently the boiler is in a free standing cupboard in the kitchen. Our idea is to move it out to the shed/out house and get rid of the radiator to put in underfloor heating. This then frees up approximately 1.9m of wall and floor space meaning we can fit in more cupboards and worktop space, also making the kitchen look and flow better.

I've been quoted around £500 to move the boiler, and believe electric underfloor heating will cost around £300-£400.

Does anyone know if the extra spend on moving boiler, underfloor heating and extra cupboards will increase the house valuation sufficiently to make the extra work worthwhile?

Cheers

I doubt it will add value to the property just as the refurb of the kitchen wont add value just makes it more marketable.

FreeBear

IslaView said: I've been quoted around £500 to move the boiler, and believe electric underfloor heating will cost around £300-£400.

Don't fit electric underfloor heating - It will cost you a ruddy fortune to run. Unless it is a fairly new floor slab, it will require extra insulation to reduce heat loss.

For discrete heating in a kitchen without wasting wall space with radiators, I would recommend a plinth heater plumbed in to the CH system - They are not particularly cheap to purchase (£200-£300), but well worth it in my opinion.

eddddy

As above, it's unlikely to add measurable value to the property - the reason to do it would be if it improves your 'lifestyle', and that improvement is worth £900 to you.

Presumably the shed / outhouse is robust and directly connected to the house - so the pipes just go through an external wall.

You'd probably want a frost stat in the outhouse to protect the boiler and the pipes. There might be times when it's over 5 degrees in the house (so the house thermostat doesn't kick in), but below 0 degrees in the outhouse.

Also, you might use a bit more gas if the boiler and some pipework is in a colder outhouse. And the current boiler might be giving out a bit of heat into the kitchen, which you'd lose if the boiler goes in the outhouse.

Have you looked at compact boilers, which could fit into a smaller kitchen cupboard?

lincroft1710

How old is the boiler? Because it may not be economic to move an old boiler. Also a lot of people won't want to buy a house with the boiler in an outhouse.If you can fit a wall mounted combi boiler in the kitchen that would be a better idea.

IslaView

lincroft1710 said:

How old is the boiler? Because it may not be economic to move an old boiler. Also a lot of people won't want to buy a house with the boiler in an outhouse.If you can fit a wall mounted combi boiler in the kitchen that would be a better idea.

It's only 5 years old and is already wall mounted, but in a small purpose built cupboard in the kitchen. By moving it to the outhouse (which is relatively warm, and just the other wide of the same wall) we free up nearly 2m of worktop space and 1.3m of cupboard space. I plan to get a remote control placed in the kitchen so the only reason to go to the boiler itself is if pressure drops. 

The house is small with very little storage space, so extra cupboards would help a lot. 

eddddy

IslaView said:

I plan to get a remote control placed in the kitchen so the only reason to go to the boiler itself is if pressure drops. 

Do you mean a programable room thermostat? You wouldn't normally put that in the kitchen - especially if the kitchen is to be heated by electric underfloor heating (which isn't controlled by the boiler).

You'd normally put the room thermostat in the living room - away from things like radiators, windows, external walls, etc

Don't you currently have a room thermostat?


(Unless you mean the boiler thermostat which controls the max temperature of water in the pipes. But you should very rarely need to change that, and I doubt you can control that remotely.)