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Question: I currently have a two bedroom house that has a central heating system and seperate immersion heater for the hot water. The central heating system is rubbish, it eats gas and the radiators barely get hot, and some of them hardly warm up at all. Recently the pump has started making a noise too, sounds like a cavitaing noise, or it could simply be on its last legs. The pump is under the fitted kitchen, which is not good.... The CH system runs through the immersion heater, and is supposed to heat the water in there up - I guess that if it was working properly it might do, but at the moment it just warms the water enough to have a wash in. I don't know whether to get rid of the lot and have a combi boiler fitted or replace the existing boiler and pump in the hope that it would heat the hot water in the immersion tank enough. I am tempted to maybe go for the latter, but the downside to this being that when the CH is switched off in the summer I won't have any hot water. The other thing is, I have recently been asking around for prices on a combi fitted and have been appalled to the point of disgusted at the prices that the plumbers charge, I know that they make a lot of money, but the prices have been ridiculous. If anyone could PLEASE recommend me a reasonable plumber/heating engineer in the West Yorkshire area I would be eternally grateful.
Answer: Well, you could start by having someone investigate what's wrong with your current system. It could be something quite trivial. It would have been interesting if you said what model/age your boiler is -- might have got some hints on replacement verses repair. The problem may not be in the boiler anyway, in which case just replacing it won't fix the problem either. BTW, central heating boilers are quite capable of heating a hot water cylinder without also heating the house (unless wrongly plumbed or faulty).
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