Scottish Elises

A long shot but worth an ask -

Does anyone have experience of warm air gas heating, I have been looking for a new place and have seen a nice place which has this 60/70's style of heating. My limited research has found it is very efficient (boiler is only 2 years old which helps). The worry is the hot water is still off the eleccy so would want that converted to gas, I think you can get some sort of add on to the boiler to do this (but am not sure).

Other options would be get an other boiler just for the water an on demand type thing or replace the whole system with a wet combi system.

My folks place has this style of heating. TBH having grown up with it I quite like it. Nothing heats a house quicker really. I'm not sure how efficient it is though, there must be some data somewhere on the performance. Ultimately if you wanted to change, the heat exchanger takes up a fair amount of room and would easily accommodate a combi in the same place.

The only thing that has ever gone wrong with their one is one pilot light and a few fan belts. Other than that it's been bullet proof since installed in the 60s.

They also have recently just changed the hot water over to a small boiler to replace an emersion tank, similar to what you suggested.

I think it's an each to their own thing really. You can't really retrofit a system like this to a house so not really a common option for heating upgrades etc. and as such you don't see as many of them.

Not very common these days, although there is still a market for them in local authority new builds (as I believe they're relatively inexpensive.)

Not sure about the best option for heating your water. Shame it's only two years old - would seem a waste to rip it out.

2 year old? DO you know if it is an open flued version?? (You can stick your hand into the flames no probs!!)

The new roomsealed ones are very efficient but the open flued style are probably 20% less efficient than a new condensing boiler.

You can get a Water Circulator bolted onto the side of them, never saw one added after initial installation.

I only repair them so have limited knowledge on installation side.

If it is the open flued version, replace with a new conventional boiler or Combi as you will probably be decorating the whole house at some stage.

If you like the warm air heating, there new roomsealed systems are about twice the price of a standards boiler so 4k install roughly.

Any other q's feel free

ROSSGR wrote:2 year old? DO you know if it is an open flued version?? (You can stick your hand into the flames no probs!!)

The new roomsealed ones are very efficient but the open flued style are probably 20% less efficient than a new condensing boiler.

You can get a Water Circulator bolted onto the side of them, never saw one added after initial installation.

I only repair them so have limited knowledge on installation side.

If it is the open flued version, replace with a new conventional boiler or Combi as you will probably be decorating the whole house at some stage.

If you like the warm air heating, there new roomsealed systems are about twice the price of a standards boiler so 4k install roughly.

Any other q's feel free

Boiler was replaced just under 2 years ago. As for flames it was just a shiney white box with a big silver tube sticking out the top I can try and find out though. The whole house is needing decorated / walls moved around as that last owners were a tad older than me so not really to my taste, if I do bid and get the place I will let you know.