Bathroom refit/ central heating install

[mingham]

We have someone coming out to quote for installing central heating next week.

I've never lived in a house with central heating so have no idea what to ask or whether what they are suggesting would be the best approach, any advice?

Also at the moment the only hot water in the house comes from an immersion heater in the airing cupboard in the bathroom, this has a water tank above it and takes up loads of space as well as not being very practical as we frequently run out of hot water. I'm assuming we would get rid of this as part of the central heating installation?

We want a bathroom refit doing too, would it make sense to have all this done at once?

Thanks in advance :)

Hi, I will follow your thread as we have just moved into a house which needs a central heating system and boiler replacement. We currently have a cold water tank in the loft and a hot water tank in the middle of a bathroom. We want to free up the space in the bathroom and so far have been adviced by a heating engineer to go for a combi boiler and if we do a loft conversion (which we plan to in the future), his advice was to get an electric shower in the loft. He had quoted us 12k plus VAT (we are in Sussex) which includes replacing the central heating pipes and radiators with mid range vertical onces, removing water tanks and installing a combi in a new location. We also had a plumber in who said a system boiler with a pressurised hot water tank in a new location is our best option; to remove the cold water tank from the loft and hot water tank from the bathroom, instal a new hot water tank and a boiler in a new location plus replace pipes and radiators with some basic ones he quoted us 8k no VAT. So far very different advice and very different quotes, both higher than we had expected.. We also really wanted to retrofit wet underfloor heating throughout the downstairs but been talked out of it as apparently it would not be very efficient in an old house and with the engineered wood flooring we want, and been told it is prone to blockages if used in conjunction with radiators upstairs and the floor would need to be ripped up if it needs to be fixed. I would have loved to have UFH.

Oh and yes to doing it all at once, we are.