Gareth Kent
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Hello chaps. Any heating engineers on here please? Am looking for guidance/suggestions.
The 30 year old boiler in my house has just packed up as the gas injectors are shot and are no longer available as replacement parts as such I am told full boiler replacement is required. My excellent but old school local heating engineers have exhausted their parts suppliers and even checked their shed!
The current boiler is part of a gravity system with water storage in the attic, with a separate copper hot water tank in a landing cupboard. The boiler is cited in the kitchen, floor mounted with the flu going into the central chimney.
That in itself is not much of a problem as I am locked in with a builder to begin an extension and returb of the house starting in January and had anticipated and budgeted for a new boiler and re-plumb.
As part of the refurbishment works we will have the new boiler location moved to a utility room in the new extension as part of a new system.
My issue is one of timing in that if I get the heating system changed now I will need to incur the cost of changing all the pipe work and associated disruption, only to have to do it again when we move the boiler as part of the refurbishment.
My questions are:
- Does anyone know or can they suggest a way of just replacing the existing boiler like for like and keeping the existing location and pipe work as an interim measure, and if so is this even allowed/safe under current regulations ?
- Or is there such thing as used boiler parts, akin to parts from a breakers from which I can source the injector and soldier on hoping the boiler makes it through the winter until I move out and refurb ?
The old boiler model and part required is:
- Ideal Standard Boiler 80N
- Ideal Standard Injector part required is 002610
I have done a few web searches and can not find a clear answer on this so thoughts / suggestions welcomed.
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The 30 year old boiler in my house has just packed up as the gas injectors are shot and are no longer available as replacement parts as such I am told full boiler replacement is required. My excellent but old school local heating engineers have exhausted their parts suppliers and even checked their shed!
The current boiler is part of a gravity system with water storage in the attic, with a separate copper hot water tank in a landing cupboard. The boiler is cited in the kitchen, floor mounted with the flu going into the central chimney.
That in itself is not much of a problem as I am locked in with a builder to begin an extension and returb of the house starting in January and had anticipated and budgeted for a new boiler and re-plumb.
As part of the refurbishment works we will have the new boiler location moved to a utility room in the new extension as part of a new system.
My issue is one of timing in that if I get the heating system changed now I will need to incur the cost of changing all the pipe work and associated disruption, only to have to do it again when we move the boiler as part of the refurbishment.
My questions are:
- Does anyone know or can they suggest a way of just replacing the existing boiler like for like and keeping the existing location and pipe work as an interim measure, and if so is this even allowed/safe under current regulations ?
- Or is there such thing as used boiler parts, akin to parts from a breakers from which I can source the injector and soldier on hoping the boiler makes it through the winter until I move out and refurb ?
The old boiler model and part required is:
- Ideal Standard Boiler 80N
- Ideal Standard Injector part required is 002610
I have done a few web searches and can not find a clear answer on this so thoughts / suggestions welcomed.
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