Conventional boiler to combination in South Croydon Flat
Our customer had an ageing Potterton wall hung boiler, which was affected by sludge, and wished to convert it to a mains pressure combination boiler solution. The old boiler and cylinder had been squeezed into a new kitchen conversion, so it was very awkward to access the constituent parts. We removed the old wall hung boiler and cylinder, and fitted a new Worcester-Bosch condensing combination boiler. The hot water cylinder, tanks and associated controls were no longer required in the new configuration, and were scrapped. We cut a neat slot in the kitchen cabinet carcass, which allowed us to achieve […]
Replacement for unreliable Ideal Combi
Our customer lives in Oxted, Surrey, and had an Ideal combination boiler initially installed under the Warmfront scheme around 7 years ago. Not uncommonly for this model, a plethora of parts had been fitted over the years to try to keep it working, but without any success. Some of the old parts were still on site. We recommended fitting a new Worcester Bosch Greenstar 28i Junior condensing combination boiler. This new unit easily fitted inside the old boiler cupboard, and was considerably quieter than its predecessor. This was quite an easy job (makes a change) because all the pipework […]
Large Vaillant Combi in loft
Our customer owns a terraced town house in London SE19. He had considered a solar hot water system in the loft, as he wanted to minimise his family impact on the environment; with solar hot water it is important to maximise the hot water storage, or you quickly run out of solar heated water and have to use the boiler. Unfortunately, the design of these properties leaves a low headroom in the loft, restricting the size of cylinder, and there is limited weight capacity for large volumes of water. So, instead, he decided to fit the Vaillant ecoTEC+ 937 hybrid […]
Large Worcester combi hidden in loft
The house, located in Smallfield, near Gatwick, had a conventional heating system with a copper cylinder, water tank etc. The old boiler had been mounted in a bedroom cupboard, which is always best avoided for noise reasons. We fitted a new Worcester Bosch Greenstar 37CDi combination boiler in the loft space, on a custom made partition. The Worcester boiler has a high hot water flow rate, which uses over 37Kw of power. This necessitated a new gas pipe, which we connected via the existing external recessed meter housing and routed into the loft space. The new boiler system rendered the […]
Warm Air out, new radiator system in
The house, located in leafy Caterham, Surrey, was built in the early 60s and was heated by a warm air ducted system. In common with many installations of this period, some rooms had no direct ducting and relied on leaving the doors open. Our customer wished to use the large cupboard currently occupied by the warm air system for storage. They also wanted a mains pressure delivery of hot and cold water, and minimum wastful stored hot water. We suggested the new Worcester Bosch Highflow 440CDi. This is a floor mounted unit, recently updated from the Highflow 440. With […]
Heritage Cooker, Vaillant 937 combi and underfloor heating
Our client has a woodworking business and was constructing an imaginative barn type conversion for their property, with lots of oak beams in an unusual semi circular design. Firstly, we installed a Heritage Cooker in the existing kitchen. Fitted with brass trim and a Jade Green enamelled finish, it was also specified with body colour hotplate covers. This particular Heritage Cooker was a gas fired unit, most of the Heritages we fit are oil fired in very rural locations. In common with all 3 oven Heritage units, the control panel concealed behind the upper left hand door enables the unit […]
New Worcester Bosch oil combination boiler
This customer had a very old Worcester combi in their petite kitchen, in a rural location near Merstham, Surrey. The old boiler had been installed with the flue too close to a window, and in addition some leakage had resulted in damage to the floor. We suggested relocating the new replacement outside, so more space could be liberated in the house. Also it meant that the boiler flue ‘plume’ would not be immediately under the kitchen view of the garden. A new Worcester Bosch Greenstar oil combination boiler was fitted on a concrete plinth under an old carport, to the […]
3 bathrooms from a Combination boiler in Oxted, Surrey!
Our client had a delightful detached house in a secluded road in Oxted, Surrey. The house had been extended into the loft, and had ended up with three luxury bathrooms. Unfortunately, the hot water storage cylinder was jammed under the stairs and was too small. And there were three separate shower pumps (each installed by plumbers with every new bathroom). The shower pumps were noisy, one was a negative head type (so it suffered from running for short periods in the middle of the night), the hot water cylinder could not be sited anywhere else, and the water tanks took […]
