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We've just bought a flat and in the kitchen, right near the window and about a foot or less above the worktop, is a huge combi boiler. It's a Worcester Bosch junior something? Like a dirty cream colour with a dark grey panel where controls and name plate is. We do not know if it works as the flat is uninhabitable and there is no kitchen units etc yet. The flat was a conversion from around 2004 so boiler is at least that old but could be older as it was probably bought on the cheap (everything about the conversion was done on the cheap!). I know these boilers are good for a lot more years but it's just too big for the size of kitchen (dinky).
Because of the size of the boiler (850H, 550W, and quite deep) we are considering changing it to a smaller one (maybe an Ideal Logic 30 or something equally small that will sit inside a cupboard). But we need to make this decision before we order the kitchen as at present we are basing our design on this large boiler, yet we don't even know if it works so might need to have it changed anyway. And the size is messing up our design options.
My question is, if we ask our plumber to change the boilers over, how big a job is it? There are five metal pipes coming out of the bottom of the existing boiler - they look to be about an inch wide each. Can we have slimmer pipes on the new boiler and can they be hidden at all, eg bent around so they can be boxed in discretely and so on. Is it a huge job to change over boilers? We shouldn't need to move the external vent as this is the usual top cupboard height.
How many extra hours will the plumber need to factor in (approx) to do this changeover?
Our plumber is reluctant to change the boiler as it's a HUGE job - so we want to be sure it is, or whether he just doesn't want to do it and trying to put us off.
thanks for advice
We've just bought a flat and in the kitchen, right near the window and about a foot or less above the worktop, is a huge combi boiler. It's a Worcester Bosch junior something? Like a dirty cream colour with a dark grey panel where controls and name plate is. We do not know if it works as the flat is uninhabitable and there is no kitchen units etc yet. The flat was a conversion from around 2004 so boiler is at least that old but could be older as it was probably bought on the cheap (everything about the conversion was done on the cheap!). I know these boilers are good for a lot more years but it's just too big for the size of kitchen (dinky).
Because of the size of the boiler (850H, 550W, and quite deep) we are considering changing it to a smaller one (maybe an Ideal Logic 30 or something equally small that will sit inside a cupboard). But we need to make this decision before we order the kitchen as at present we are basing our design on this large boiler, yet we don't even know if it works so might need to have it changed anyway. And the size is messing up our design options.
My question is, if we ask our plumber to change the boilers over, how big a job is it? There are five metal pipes coming out of the bottom of the existing boiler - they look to be about an inch wide each. Can we have slimmer pipes on the new boiler and can they be hidden at all, eg bent around so they can be boxed in discretely and so on. Is it a huge job to change over boilers? We shouldn't need to move the external vent as this is the usual top cupboard height.
How many extra hours will the plumber need to factor in (approx) to do this changeover?
Our plumber is reluctant to change the boiler as it's a HUGE job - so we want to be sure it is, or whether he just doesn't want to do it and trying to put us off.
thanks for advice
