To think I can get rid of my old boiler and radiator system completely?

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Please tell me there's something I haven't thought of as it's too late at night to be phoning companies and I want the basic question answered before I think more about it and make mad plans.
Just bought house but not moved in yet, and the ancient boiler and water cylinder/tank system needs replacing. I imagine the pipes and radiators are not in wonderful order either but was too excited to check them out (survey this week).
Was going to do the conventional thing of ordering a new combi boiler at 3K and just coping with the old radiator system but I've just discovered the idea of infrared heating panels made of glass and want to know if I can just have these instead? The company is called funkyheat.
I was going to remove the bath and replace with just an electric shower on its own system. I would have a boiling water and/or hot tap in the kitchen (and maybe hot one for bathroom sink?), and thus do away with the whole ugly boiler/pipes and radiator system altogether. I'd have a dishwasher for dishes. Is this possible?
Each heating panel is about £500 and according to the bumpf have no maintenance costs and are more efficient. I know very little about any of this so happy to be taught.

Hi did you do this in the end?

Utter scam.

Any electric heater is just as efficient as any other electric heater. Just get some fan heaters, at least they'll cost less to buy.

Note that the cost of 1 KwH of electricity is around 15p vs around 3p for gas, so using full electric heating will cost you around four to five times as much as using gas.

The only exceptions to this are heat pumps, be they air-ground or air-air. Cost of setup is high though.

What a shame about that, there seems to be a real lack of alternatives to the wet system with radiators which take up wall space...

When you say air-air do you mean air-source heat pumps? I guess then you can decide whether to hook up to traditional system with radiators / underfloor heating / warm air... or anything else???

Ha, that's funny, I started reading this thread and thought 'oh I was in that situation too' and then realised it was my own thread.
No I did not do it in the end. I did buy one infrared panel heater just to see how it performed in a room, and I wasn't that happy with it and sold it to someone who was going to use it in a garage or games room or something.
A little research and the best thing to do at the time, 2 years ago was to get a new combi boiler system, and I replaced 2 radiators with the new kitchen. I was able to get £700 towards it through a government grant.
I'm thinking it was the right move as alternative systems, non gas, were not then and still aren't convincing enough. I've been looking into air source heat pumps since the green homes grant came out, and decided against that as well, even though I could have got it all done for free, or nearly.
I just don't think it's quite there yet in this country to move off gas central heating, but when my current boiler is 8-10 years old, I reckon there will be new help schemes and new systems.

We had air-source heat pumps in the building where I used to work. It was innovative when it was built and attracted a lot of interest and won Best Built Project for the year. In cold winters we sneaked in fan heaters and in hot summers we expired from heat exhaustion.

We're in a 70's house with warm air and I love the fact we have no radiators. Perhaps we should stick with the warm air as the heat distribution system!

Re the heat source - isn't the government going to ban gas fired systems in the not so distant future?