Piglet John, I'd be very grateful for your advice. I live in a small, end terrace, two bedroom bungalow. My Vaillant combi boiler (in airing cupboard, with vertical flue) is being replaced next Friday as part of my Housing Association routine maintenance programme (boiler replacement at 15 year intervals). My new combi will be an Ecotech with a room thermostat (current system is TRVs only).
I'd appreciate a brief rundown of the replacement procedure you'd expect the heating engineers to follow, please. Also, what is the optimum position for the room thermostat? I have an semi open plan living room/kitchen area, so I'm assuming it would be most effective in my living room, as that frequently benefits from the extra oven heat from the kitchen? If so, would the both the TRVs on kitchen/living space rads. need to be disabled/removed (and if they go, could I have/need a TRV on the small hall rad.?
I'm concerned about how the work will be carried out due to the experience of a couple of elderly neighbours. One had a combi replacement for a hot water tank; the combi has been placed sideways on in the airing cupboard, the controls are only viewable/accessible by a skinny, agile person getting into to the a.c. The other had the room thermostat fitted in a largish hall, which is has no rad. and is the coolest area of the bungalow.
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Combi boiler replacement - Piglet John advice, please.
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ohmymimi · 05/12/2015 12:20
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