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Outstalling a CH boiler
On 28/05/2021 12:29, John Rumm wrote:
On 28/05/2021 11:07, Dave Plowman (News) wrote: In article , *** John Rumm wrote: There is actually a resonable range of boilers designed for external installation. They include their own enclosure and don't need another building round them. Worceter do some, as do Grant, Rianni. How would that compare, cost wise, against paying a pro to install a conventional boiler indoors? The external boilers seem to be a bit more expensive than the internal ones. For example checking one oil model of the WB shows it is about £200 more for the external one. If paying for installation, there might arguably be a little bit less work doing an external one (no flue hole to core drill) assuming there is already an adequate base in place for it to be sited on. I guess the main attraction would be less space lost in a kitchen, and less noise. In the case of oil boilers less smell -- djc (̿Ĺ̯̿ ̿) No low-hanging fruit, just a lot of small berries up a tall tree. |
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Outstalling a CH boiler
On 28/05/2021 13:22, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2021 12:29:33 +0100, John Rumm wrote: snip I guess the main attraction would be less space lost in a kitchen, and less noise. A disadvantage could be any heat lost from the boiler itself, especially in the winter, if there was no need to heat the outbuilding (other than for it's own frost protection)? With a modern condenser there is very little heat lost from the boiler itself (at least on gas ones anyway). You would be hard pushed on mine to find any bit of it more than just slightly warm to the touch. The only heating my Mum has in her kitchen is the boiler and the oven / stove if on and the flow / return pipes 'passing though' [1]. ;-) Old conventional boilers would leak sever hundred watt into the room. [1] And the fridge freezer? Whatever its motor power consumption is. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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On 28/05/2021 18:22, Andrew wrote:
On 27/05/2021 20:31, Martin Brown wrote: On 27/05/2021 13:05, Tim+ wrote: Theo wrote: Andrew wrote: On 27/05/2021 11:35, Theo wrote: "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote: Don't see it makes any difference. Unsafe work is unsafe work no matter where you put it. It might reduce the value of the claim the insurer declines to pay. Theo Perhaps, but since they won't pay out it is somewhat irrelevant. Shockwaves from an explosion can still do a lot of damage. Neighbours will also have a valid claim against anyone whose boiler explodes. Claim for what ?. A safe installation by a competent person is unlikely to cause any problems. All the incidents of major gas explosions have been caused either by gross incompetence, or intentional. Everyone thinks they are competent and safe. Even the people who are grossly incompetent. An event like this is not a good way to find that out. Theo Headed for a Darwin award usually unless they really do know what they are doing (in which case they could install it properly). What event? Im asking a hypothetical question as to what constitutes installation and whether an outstallation would be exempt from normal building regs etc. You will only find out when your "safe" gas installation fails and your insurer's loss adjusters laugh in your face. It happened near me and what was left of the house afterwards remained as charred and blackened warning for would be gas DIYers for many years afterwards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellerbeck Telephone kiosks used to explode with monotonous regularity in the good old days. Gas leaks found their way into telecoms ducts and sparks from the old pulse dialing mechanism would eventually provide the spark. It was particularly bad after the conversion to natural gas which was drier than towns gas started causing the joint seals to contract. Boilers do not explode. Gas leaking into a compartment and reaching the percentage that can explode, might, if a source of ignition happens. Indeed, the most likely way you will cause injury with a boiler is to not correctly fit the flue such that combustion by-products are vented inside the building. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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Outstalling a CH boiler
On 28/05/2021 23:40, John Rumm wrote:
On 28/05/2021 13:22, T i m wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2021 12:29:33 +0100, John Rumm wrote: snip I guess the main attraction would be less space lost in a kitchen, and less noise. A disadvantage could be any heat lost from the boiler itself, especially in the winter, if there was no need to heat the outbuilding (other than for it's own frost protection)? With a modern condenser there is very little heat lost from the boiler itself (at least on gas ones anyway). You would be hard pushed on mine to find any bit of it more than just slightly warm to the touch. The only heating my Mum has in her kitchen is the boiler and the oven / stove if on and the flow / return pipes 'passing though' [1]. ;-) Old conventional boilers would leak sever hundred watt into the room. The class 2 flue blocks in my house went up through the bedroom above the baxi bermuda back boiler and allowed the buider to fit a rad only 2/3rds of the size of the one in the other identically-sized bedroom. After I added just an inch of celotex on the inside of the front (north) wall of this bedroom, even before I refitted the rad I noticed that even in really cold weather, that the heat from these flue blocks kept this bedroom comfortably warm. |
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