Small-scale homes should consider combi heating boilers
Small-scale homes should consider combi heating boilers
If you have a tiny household a combination heating boiler offers space saving opportunities to you. All you want to set up the full central heating system is a combi heating boiler and balanced flue. To complete the heating you just need radiators, the required fittings and a quantity of copper pipe. Your first thought could be astonished and considered that some component parts had been missed out from the system. What about the water pump, the hot water storage tank and the feed and enlargement tank.
Surprisingly a combination heating boiler does not need any of these parts. You do not need to buy a hot water storage tank, you do not require a feed and expansion tank up in the attic, the combination gas boiler also incorporates the other smaller elements. The consequence is that a lot of room is saved inside your household.
The combination boiler is not new. 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 boiler. It is has two major divergences with the system and normal type of gas boilers. The first point to spotlight is that the circulating hot water for the central heating is within a fully sealed system. Having no open outlets there is no requirement for a feed and enlargement tank in the loft. Inclusion of a hot water storage vessel within the gas boiler also removes any need for the hot water storage cylinder.
Hot water is only produced as it is needed, turning on a hot water signals this demand to the boiler. The hot water is produced by the use of a highly economical internal heat exchanger. Hot water circulating in the heating system is diverted to the heat exchanger. On the other side of the heat exchanger cold mains water is heated before completing its journey to the hot water tap.
The boiler design gives priority to getting immediate hot water. The radiators are furnished with hot water once the tap is shut.
This might give you food for thought and the impetus to consider a combi boiler as your next brand-new boiler.