A combi boiler question .

[rogerzilla]

You can get an electric geyser to heat a modest flow of water to a sink or basin, but combi boilers are a fossil fuel-only thing. Goodness knows what people will do when they are forced to move to heat pumps and live in a small house with no airing cupboard for the cylinder.

 

[PaulSB]

You can get an electric geyser to heat a modest flow of water to a sink or basin, but combi boilers are a fossil fuel-only thing. Goodness knows what people will do when they are forced to move to heat pumps and live in a small house with no airing cupboard for the cylinder.

I've thought about this from time to time. We have nowhere to site a heat pump. The one spot it could be placed would require the removal of a gutter downspout and some method of routing the rain water to the drainage system. All that would do is create a physical spot to place it. Goodness knows what would happen internally in a 180 year old stone built terraced cottage!!!!

I don't think heat pump installation would be possible for less than £25,000 and a complete reconfiguration of the heating and hot water system. Even then it would be c@rp. One shower and that's it for a while.

Someone, somewhere will have to come up with a good alternative.

 

[rogerzilla]

We considered a GSHP, having already ruled out a ASHP on the grounds of noise and feebleness, as we have lots of space to lay the ground loop(s) in trenches, but ruled it out because:

1. It would have cost at least £30,000 after the grant. A major complication is that the house CH pipework is largely microbore.

2. There isn't any space indoors for the plant. The oil boiler is outdoors.

3. It would have saved nothing in running costs over oil (at current prices).

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