Gas, Oil & LPG Boiler Replacement
Is your boiler is over 10 years old? If so you could be wasting up to half the gas and oil you buy!
Choosing a central heating installation with a high efficiency condensing boiler with the correct heating controls can make a huge difference to your heating bills over time. Up to 40% savings can be made.
Our boiler installation service
As every boiler installation is different we will provide a full written quote detailing work we recommend to be done with a fixed price.
However all our boiler installations included the following services as standard:
- Installation of high efficiency condensing boiler
- power flush to heating system
- fit a room thermostat
- fit thermostatic valves to radiators where required
- install hot water and heating controls as recommended by the Energy Saving Trust
Types of Boiler
Combination (or combi) boilers
Heat water instantaneously on opening a hot tap, so there is no need for a storage cylinder.
Read more about Pros
- small space needed for boiler frees up cupboard space
- easy installation normally 1 day
- constant hot water supply
- pressurised hot water to taps
Cons
- no heating or hot water upon failure
- supplys only one hot tap at a time
- low flow rates for bath filling
System boilers
These are designed to generate heat for your home as well as hot water that can be stored in a separate hot water storage cylinder. This can be situated anywhere in your home with no need for a separate tank in the loft.
Read more about Pros
- removes loft tanks for central heating system
- compact installation
- high hot water flow rates if used with un vented cylinders (up to 50 ltrs per min)
- un interrupted hot water, supplied by emersion should boiler fail
Cons
- complicated cylinder and heating controls with wiring needed
- space for a large cylinder some where
- extra piping from cylinder to boiler control valves
Heat only boilers
Work in conjunction with a hot water storage cylinder and cold water top up tanks to provide both central heating and hot water.
Read more about Pros
- easy replacement for existing under kitchen unit boiler minimal kitchen disturbance
- less chance of old radiator circuits leaking due to water pressures
- large supply of hot water
- hot water supply even if boiler fails with emersion fitted
Cons
- loft tanks still fitted
- chance of freezing
- vented system difficult to balance
- low flow rates to showers
- complicated valves and control gear with separate programmers
Back Boiler
A back boiler is a small, compact boiler fitted at the back of an open fireplace hearth. It sits behind a gas or electric fire (or in the chimney breast) and provides hot water and central heating to the property.
Read more about Pros
- no need to re-site the boiler and modify the pipework
- kitchen cupboard space is not lossed
- no major disruptions to property or redecoration
- the only like-for-like direct back boiler replacement in the UK
Read more about Baxi have devloped a small high efficiency Bermuda back boiler unit that has a SEDBUK Band A rating which has been designed to work with the Valor Dimension™ electric fires.
When the boiler was first launched in 1996 Baxi estimated that around 80% of all boiler installations were the Bermuda. Today around 2.3 million homes across the UK still use the Baxi Bermuda.
The Baxi Bermuda BBU HE is a fully room sealed 15kw heat only boiler. It has a Class 5 NOx rating and is over 90% effcient. This will benefit householders with great savings on energy bills.
To find out more information about back boilers view the Baxi web site and read the section about what is a back boiler.
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The type of boiler you need will depend on a number of factors, such as the size of your house and your hot water requirements.
