Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Gas conversion - Plumbing question

  • 19-05-2006 8:15am
    #1
    jack24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Quick query for any plumbers out there. Coming towards the end of an extension build and the plumbing is the last thing to be finished. We converted from oil to gas (new boiler fitted in a utility room) and had a number of rads moved/replaced. I have asked the builder on a number of occasions whether the new system will have the facility to just heat the water without heating the rads (but without having to manually turn off each rad individually). He made the usual builders noises, lot more time and money/pipework etc. We didnt have that facility before but I would have expected that functionality to be standard in any conversion. Theres also no thermostat, nor are there any zone control valves etc (this stuff seems to be standard on an install according to the Bord Gais website). Has anyone out there converted recently from oil to gas and if so have you come across this? Did it cost extra to have a valve fitted to heat the water only? The standard price we were quoted from a few of the large installers was €3.5k for a conversion/new boiler (no new rads). The builder has said that we can use the immersion but we'd like to have the flexibility to heat the water from the heating system as well,

    Thanks

    Jack


Comments

  • #2
    tigerman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭tigerman


    After jan 2009 all houses will be assassed and issued an energy label, Basically current building regs say that any house larger than a 100Sq M need to be Zoned,

    Your living room should have a room stat, your hot cylinder should have a tank stat, and you chould have two motorised valves in your hot press and a programmer in the kitchen or near boiler.


  • #3
    stiofanD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭stiofanD


    tigerman wrote:
    After jan 2009 all houses will be assassed and issued an energy label, Basically current building regs say that any house larger than a 100Sq M need to be Zoned,
    Sorry to hijack the thread, but does this mean that anyone getting a new heating system in needs to install zoned heating ? We're changing over from oil to gas this summer, but none of the installers have talked about anything other than a straight swap of one boiler for another.


Advertisement