Estimate of cost for installation (2-bed terrace Gas)

Solair

I am just about to embark on a pricing and costing exercise for a heating system for an elderly relative of mine.

She lives in an "Artisan Dwellings" house that was built at the turn of the 20th century and which has never had central heating.

The house has two bedrooms upstairs and a tiny landing. Downstairs there is a room at the front, a room at the back, a small hallway. All of these areas have standard suspended floors (floor boards) with plenty of space to run pipes. There is also a small extension on the back which houses the kitchen and a bathroom area. This has concrete flooring.

The house has no attic tank, and everything, including local under-sink electric water heating and the electric shower has always run directly off the mains.

She has become ill recently and we want to upgrade a few aspects of her house, particularly her heating system.

We are keen to get an installation done as quickly as possible, but also to keep the cost at a minimum as we don't have an enormous budget and we also want to avoid too much disruption.

Would gas fired central heating be the best option?

We would consider perhaps doing radiators in the main house i.e. the two bedrooms and the two downstairs rooms and a hallway and then perhaps use electric heating of some sort in the bathroom and kitchen to avoid construction work (if that is a major consideration).

There would be about 4 or 5 meters at most of pipe work that would need to go into the kitchen/bathroom concrete floor, the rest is under floorboards.

As a state pensioner, I think she is eligible for an SEI grant towards heating and insulation.

Any suggestions would be appreciated and if anyone would like to give me a phone number / quote, please don't hesitate to send me a DM.

The house is located in the Dublin City Centre area, it has no natural gas connection at the moment, but service is definitely available just outside the hall door.

Solair

Anyone got any ballpark ideas on how much this would cost before we start looking for quotes?

Rough estimates .. I mean €2000 ? or €5000?

BTW: We don't necessarily need domestic hot water heating as part of this system.

yoshytoshy

I know the type of house your talking about and if it was me I'd be going for a combi boiler.

You need to get someone out to look at the job and tell you what work is involved ,then you'll start to get an idea of prices.
Different people will be doing the job different ways and the prices will vary.

Thats about it from me:)

Solair

Thanks, would a combi boiler add much to the cost?

yoshytoshy

Not sure to be honest ,the water pressure in the house would determine the costs of it.
If you have half decent water pressure ,then that would be fine for a combi boiler.

If you locate the boiler in the kitchen ,it would be cheaper also. You would be near a drain for the condense pipe and you'd have less pipework for the hot water.

The nearer the combi is to your outlets the better the system ,it can be a waste of water waiting for hot water to reach you.

Edit : sorry ,Combi would be cheaper for a single person to run than running a hot water cylinder etc. And the installation costs would be far cheaper and take up far less space.

Stove Fan

When I used to install gas central heating in the UK around 7 years ago I used to buy all the heating kit from this company. http://www.mrcentralheating.com/ I used to install the whole installation and also uprated the gas supply pipe for the price of the kit plus 400.00for installation. I used to install a lot of these systems to 2 bed terraced houses. It used to take me 5 days working on my own using all copper tube.

I think a combi boiler would be ideal depending on water pressure. I would go for a 30kw boiler for better hot water flow rate/heat of water.

If you could get something like this here and I was gas registered etc I would charge 3,000euro.

Stove Fan:)