Basicly, we have a boiler, thats extremly old. 24 years old. So are only source of hot water for the past 3 years was a shower. me and my mum got sick of it, and we phoned up British Gas, and they came and gave us a estimation, of ?8000. Apart from being waaaaay to expensive for us, he also told us its a Dual Pipe Boiler. We had no idea what it was, but he said that we'd have to change to a Single Pipe Boiler, and have all the floor board ripped up! Are house is a MESS, and to be honest, if its true that we'd have to have the floor boards ripped up, I'd rather move. I was wondering, is there anywhere in the UK that still sells these Dual Pipe Boiler and so that we don't have to have are floor boards ripped up.
Sounds as if someone is mixed up a little here. Boilers are basically all the same in they will run more or less whatever is attached to them. A single pipe system is probably what you have now and would most likely have been an old solid fuel system converted over to gas. You would have a single pipe running all around the house feeding all the radiators and very likely a gravity feed from the boiler to your hot water cylinder. To operate todays high efficiency boilers it requires a 2 pipe system so in effect all your radiators will be in parallel instead of series as at present.So I am sure its going to be a big job with all the boards being lifted as needed which considering the age of the existing system is probably advisable as it will probably be gunked up and will save about ?400 on having a power flush and the whole system would be new. I would suggest you ask a few local installers to quote you as ?8000 would probably do a small mansion. See if any of your friends/neighbours can recommend an installer for a start.
