Heating

what type of heating do you have?

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well I am (hopefully) buying somewhere new, and will be moving from combi-boiler to hot water storage heater with a boiler...

and just wanting to know what most people here have :D
 
it confuses me cos the place has radiators a boiler and this storage tank ...

hmm...

:D
 
Heating i rarely need to use, even in the winter. But have no gas so when i do i used to use oil filled electric radiators one per room (different sizes depentant on room size) with individual thermostats, but as my place tends to get toooooooooooooo hot most of the time i now have AC installed which can heat, so we'll see as to what i use.
 
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:lol:

I apologise for the heating systems I have missed out :lol:
 
Auzelia said:
and this storage tank ...

hmm...

:D
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Emmersion heater? if so you can heat water without having the heating on, as if you only have water set to heat up on the boiler you still need one radiator on for the boiler to pump around.
 
Thanks :D

Im still not 100% sure..

I know we had the same system in my parents house, suppose I could ask her! lol
 
Depends on how old the system is as to how it will work and also if they decided to use an electric heating element instead of connecting it to the heating pipework from the boiler. As a lot of the older installs from the 70's and 80's had electric heating elements over a connection from the boiler system to keep the water at the correct temperature.

Also as russdaz said you might have the one radiator setup where one needs to run all the time or if you are lucky they installed a bypass in the pipework to avoid this setup.
 
A gas powered furnace with 'through the floor/ceiling' heat vents :)
 
A mixture. Gas boiler and radiators. And a real fire place that I put coal and logs on. Real coal - none of this smokeless crap. The smell..... hmmmm.....
 
It's likely that the storage tank runs off the boiler as well, that's what I've got.

It's got 2 motorized valves that run independent of each other.
 
I have an electric boiler with wet rads and a thermal store for mains pressure hot water.
 
Auzelia said:
it confuses me cos the place has radiators a boiler and this storage tank ...
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Do you mean a cylinder? (copper coloured thing in an airing cupboard usually).

That would be a traditional gas central heating system. A gas boiler heats water which passes through radiators for heating and/or through a coil in the cylinder to heat the hot water.

There will also be a couple of header tanks (usually) in the roof.

A good traditional system can be more efficient than a combi boiler.


Steve.
 
yeah it is a cylinder green if i remember correctly.
viewed the property again today

and the boiler is a stelrad ideal wlx and there was paper work in the cupboard with the cylinder saying it had been replaced in 03.
 
thats good then, least I wont need to buy it a jacket
 
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