Retrieve room with a combination heating boiler
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Retrieve room with a combination heating boiler
If you have a space problem in your dwelling house you should look at fitting a combi gas boiler. You only need a combination gas boiler and balanced flue to fit a full central heating system without any other pieces. With the inclusion of copper piping to transfer the hot water to the radiators to warm your house you will be finished. You could be surprised by this and ask whether we had forgotten about some parts. Isn’t it true that most systems seem to require a feed and enlargement tank in the attic, a water pump to move the hot water around and a storage tank to keep hot water when not required.
The answer to your queries would be that with a typical combination gas boiler you do need these parts. You will have no requirement for a hot water storage tank, you do not need a feed and expansion tank up in the attic, the other petite component parts we have mentioned are actually built into the combi gas boiler. Adopting this system means you can retrieve a substantial amount of space.
Combi gas boilers are not a new boiler design. The combination has been more popular in the Continent than in the U.K., but is now being installed more frequently as an alternative to the orthodox wall mounted heating boiler. There are two main deviations to be highlighted when likened with traditional boilers. A fully sealed system contains the circulating hot water for the central heating. Having no open outlets there is no need for a feed and expansion cylinder in the attic. The gas boiler itself contains a large capacity enlargement tank but again this is part of the sealed unit.
Hot water is produced as you require it, turning on a hot water indicates this requirement to the boiler. An efficient internal heat exchanger is used to rapidly heat up cold water. Hot water in the central heating system is used to immediately heat the heat exchanger. Fresh cold water from the outside mains passes through this heat exchanger where it is heated before it reaches the hot water tap.
Automatic priority is established to the demand for hot water over water being furnished to the radiators to heat up the home. When the valve is closed again the central heating water is returned to its normal circuit.
If you do have a storage space issue in your home you should give critical thought to putting in a combi boiler when you next exchange your boiler.
