Simplest way to replace the boiler...

PC Paul · 2005-12-17T22:09:49+00:00

A friend of mine needs her old kitchen wallmounted boiler replacing on a tight budget...What's the simplest and/or best way to do it?She currently has radiators without TRVs, a wall stat, an all-in-one pumped mixer shower and the aforementioned old-standard (no integral anything) boiler.Quotes and 'advice' from a few plumbers who've been round range from walking out again to 'well it has to be a combi nowadays - regulations - and you'd have to replace the shower because it would blow the O-rings, and fit TRVs all round, and oh the radiators are probably corrdoed and weouldn't take the pressure so they'd need replacing too,and the pipes are buried in the floor so we'd have to put new ones in the walls...'.Some of that may have been good advice, and some would be an improvement, but given the brief of doing it cheap, it missed by a mile!Hopefully I can get better advice here - on what type of boiler to fit, what else might need doing, and the best way to go about getting it done. i.e. is it worth buying the boiler online and finding someone to fit it or is that impossible? Any grants going at the moment? (West Midlands area, 20yo boiler... 1970's house)Thanks for any thoughts...

Dec 17, 2005 21 Replies

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Set Square 20 years ago

That's not what you said initially!

Sounds like it is a Y-Plan system - which already has all the necessary boiler interlocks. But, AIUI, TRVs will be *required* - rather than optional - to meet current regs.

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Part P Avoider 20 years ago

Cheapest way.......Do it yourself. Saves a fortune! Spanner monkeys an sparkies always charge a fortune for shoddy work! That f**cks me righ off

-- Part P Avoider

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