Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Days? Weeks? Years?
How long does it take to replace/fit a boiler?
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19sixtysix
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Half a day if its just the boiler.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
Friend of mine had his done last month, it took a full day.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
What is a power flush?
Ours is being moved to the kitchen, for some weird reason.
Ours is being moved to the kitchen, for some weird reason.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Power flush is what it says. They pump high pressure round the pipework/ rads to clear any crap out.
If boiler is being moved it may take 2-3 days.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
So that will mean no hot water over the weekend?
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Have you got an immersion heater? You could use that or boil a kettle full of water for a wash.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
If the planning ie getting all the new / old pipework etc are all set up ready, then anything over two days is taking the mick.
Half a day to move the boiler and allow another half-day for the power flush & sorting out any problems ...
[Mate had an old, very old, radiator spring a leak, or maybe it was the valve, some years ago].
Half a day to move the boiler and allow another half-day for the power flush & sorting out any problems ...
[Mate had an old, very old, radiator spring a leak, or maybe it was the valve, some years ago].
WouldBe
Dislicksick
If the current boiler isn't working, hence needing replacing, then you'd still be without hot water for as long as it takes to do all the work.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
It works it's just being moved for some reason into the kitchen. I'm not in charge OF these decisions. Hopefully they wont get in the way of me cooking
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
I don't see how the pipes can be easily routed without having to drill through the entire upstairs floor.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
That's what I thought with ours too, but he managed to do it without taking any flooring up.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
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seeformiles
Lost in the wood
We had ours done last year. He started at 8.30 and was done and dusted by 1pm
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Our was done during the first lockdown. Replaced an existing combi with a different brand and flushed the heating system. £2.8K for 1½ days.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
We've had the boiler changed twice. first time it was moved from the kitchen wall (which was scheduled for demolition) to the airing cupboard replacing the noncondensing boiler with a condensing combi boiler at the same time.
There was already power, water and heating pipes to the cupboard but they had to run a flue out through the roof and lift the floors to run an condensate pipe to the drains. They also bricked up the hole they left in the kitchen wall (only for someone else to take a sledgehammer to it a couple of months later) All this took a couple of guys 2 full days and then they spent another half day doing a powerflush on the system (isolating the new boiler first).
The second time was replacing that boiler 14 years later with a new one that involved a bit of pipework since the connections on the new boiler weren't in the same places as the old one. That also took 2 guys but they started around 9-10ish and were done by mid-afternoon.
There was already power, water and heating pipes to the cupboard but they had to run a flue out through the roof and lift the floors to run an condensate pipe to the drains. They also bricked up the hole they left in the kitchen wall (only for someone else to take a sledgehammer to it a couple of months later) All this took a couple of guys 2 full days and then they spent another half day doing a powerflush on the system (isolating the new boiler first).
The second time was replacing that boiler 14 years later with a new one that involved a bit of pipework since the connections on the new boiler weren't in the same places as the old one. That also took 2 guys but they started around 9-10ish and were done by mid-afternoon.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Ours was £2k all in
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
It's not being moved into the kitchen.
Under the stairs instead.
First Nigel loses his bank account, now this.
Under the stairs instead.
First Nigel loses his bank account, now this.
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