On 7 Oct 2006 05:57:24 -0700, "Alex Flaherty"
wrote:

I've just moved into a house which has a wooden floor and a Baxi
Bermuda back boiler/fire.

A vent in the floor exists already but it's on the opposite side of the
room and will be covered up by the sofa.

When I got a guy in to service the back boiler, he said he recommended
installing a vent directly in front of the fire

Nice focus for conversation, that !

as the one currently installed is effectively useless.

So, is it as simple as rolling back the carpet, chopping a square out
of the floorboards and the carpet and then screwing some fancy looking
brass plate over the top?


Whooooah,

Back Boilers are now deprecated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecated (just in case). ;-)

So I wouldn't chop any more holes in your living room floor for now.

AIUI CORGI fitters will no longer repair back boilers, and probably
BAXI will no longer supply the parts. Shortly in the future if not
now. Someone will be along with precise details shortly.

Brother in law had one removed last week.

Or is there more to it?

Think of where you are going to locate your new condensing boiler, and
how you are going to find the £1.5k - £2.5k to finance it. Console
yourself in the knowledge that back boilers were woefully
inefficient.


Thanks for any help!

One does one's best !

DG