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Your right, should be one single pipe loop with branches off the each radiator. If you pipe in and out of each rad it would be very unbalanced and closing one rad off would cripple the systemIf you truly have a 1 pipe system then you should have bypasses on every single radiator. The reason for this is so if you turn 1 radiator off it does not turn the other radiators off as well.
I could be wrong on this as I've never piped up a 1 pipe system, I have worked on a fair few and ripped loads out but this was my understanding.
The older boys on here would be the better ones to answer your question.
Your old controls are unlikely to be boiler plusCan I jump in here rather than starting a new thread about the same thing? We were about to start getting quotes for a new combi (just moved into a house with a 10 yr old Vokera) and it's now packed up on us. Heat exchanger is bust so we're topping it up every 3 hrs.
Anyway. Quotes and boilers. Current one is on inside garage wall with the flue (with no supports) is running across the ceiling to the outside wall and gas pipe doing the same. Condensate pipe runs around the base of garage to outside where it just drips (persistantly ATM) onto the block paving. Flue is corroded externally. Amazing to think it has a Building reg cert and we were given a gas safety certificate before we bought the house.
So quotes to fit a new boiler, flu, magnetic filter ,flush etc and relocate boiler onto the outside garage wall and rectify condensate pipe .
This quote also includes removing a funny bit of bypass pipework under the bathroom rad' Radiator upstairs, where we only seem to have a 1 pipe system and a new wireless thermostat. Originally there was a back boiler in the house.
Baxi/main eco 30kw
£1778
5 years warranty
Potterton titanium 28kw
£1898
7 years warranty
Baxi platinum
£2300
10 years warranty
2nd quote includes all above the above except removing the bypass pipe under the bathroom radiator and the new wireless therm'
Ideal Logic Plus 30 with 10 year manufacturers
warranty £2,586
-Vaillant 832 with 10 year warranty additional £250
-Ideal Vogue c32, 12 Year warranty additional £230
Any thoughts please?
£25 for a baxi ifos, feed it through the flue and problem solvedYour old controls are unlikely to be boiler plus
Is it compatible with Main and Potterton?£25 for a baxi ifos, feed it through the flue and problem solved
It's compatible with these boilersIs it compatible with Main and Potterton?
If you truly have a 1 pipe system then you should have bypasses on every single radiator. The reason for this is so if you turn 1 radiator off it does not turn the other radiators off as well.
I could be wrong on this as I've never piped up a 1 pipe system, I have worked on a fair few and ripped loads out but this was my understanding.
The older boys on here would be the better ones to answer your question.
Yes, probably when they removed the backboiler and installed the combi. All the rad's (apart from that one) look have new (er) copper pipework (that's visible anyway)It’s probably been part upgraded in the past
Makes sense and no, 31 isn't old,especially when you're the wrong side of 50Your right, should be one single pipe loop with branches off the each radiator. If you pipe in and out of each rad it would be very unbalanced and closing one rad off would cripple the system
I'm not an older boy though, I'm only 31, maybe that is old
Your old controls are unlikely to be boiler plus
Sorry couldn't be bother to read the entire thread but here is my opinion on a new boiler, if you are staying put-
Longest guarantee for the cheapest price.
Unless it's a vokera.
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