5 bed period property - what sort of heating system?

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Can anyone advise regarding what would be the best heating system to install?
Currently have a condensing boiler located on the middle floor (3 floors property) and two electric showers. We are renovating the property from top to bottom, and would like to re house boiler (out of a bedroom) and install a plumbed shower in the main family bathroom and an electric shower on the top floor. I have had mixed opinions on whether we still need a heating system with a tank (and therefore needs to be on the top floor to support a plumbed shower) or whether a combi boiler would be sufficient in this sized property?
Thanks

How many of you live there and what are the chances of two or three people needing to use the hot water at any one time? For example, two people having showers and one person doing the washing up? Combi boilers don't tend to be recommended for 4 and 5 bedroom houses because they tend to be family homes with quite a few occupants. In your shoes (and I was in your shoes not too long ago) I wouldn't consider a combi. I would choose between a conventional boiler and a system boiler. You'd lose the fill and expansion tank with the system boiler but keep the hot water cylinder with both.

I thought combi boilers weren't suitable for anything other than small houses?

Is it a big 5 bed house? Lots of radiators and bathrooms?

We have two separate heating systems for ours. One does one wing of the house, the other the main part of the house. Separate timers and controls for both.

We have a massive combi boiler - (six bed house) it's a Valliant and can do the whole house. We used to have an immersion heater and Combi but this new boiler is the business.

Hello having had two 5 bed period properties I can say that my current house with cylinder located on ground floor and over floor underfloor heating on both ground and first floors by wunderfloor has been far superior at keeping an older house Warmer than rads and a megaflow system which we had in the last one. We current have oil fired heating and use less than 5000 litres of heating oil per annum it is approx £300 currently here for 1000 litres of heating oil. The new oil boiler was £3k and the wunderfloor system from memory about £9k installed. We don't plan to move though so we factored in positioning of the furniture being easier with u/f heating. Hope that helps. You might find it cheaper with gas although oil companies are fairer at passing on oil price drops IME!

System boiler. A standard combi usually wouldn't be sufficient unless its mostly just you and your partner at home. A combi boiler with an in-built small storage tank though might be a decent compromise that much more space efficient.

We have a five bed over 4 floors. We too have a heavy duty valliant boiler which copes just fine (with 2 adults 4 children). I think when combis first came out they were only for smaller properties but things have changed since then.