Retrieve space with a combination boiler
Retrieve space with a combination boiler
If you have a tiny home a combination heating boiler offers room saving opportunities to you. All you require to set up the full central heating system is a combination boiler and balanced flue. If your plumber adds in a number of radiators and the appropriate copper piping you have absolutely everything to warm your dwelling house. Your first reaction maybe that we had forgotten some pieces. What about the central heating pump, the hot water storage tank and the feed and enlargement cylinder.
These parts are not required by a modern-day combi heating boiler. You do not need to buy a hot water storage cylinder, there is no need for an attic based feed and expansion cylinder, the combination boiler houses the other component parts inside its casing. The effect is that a lot of room is saved inside your home.
Combi boilers are not a new heating boiler design. They have a longer history in Europe but have now become the most popular gas boiler in the United Kingdom. There are two major differences between this form of gas boiler and its better known options. On the central heating side you still have a fully pumped system but all the heated water which circulates around is sealed in. The advantage of this is that there is no requirement to fit a feed and enlargement tank in the attic. The boiler itself incorporates a large capacity expansion cylinder but again this is part of the sealed unit.
As hot water is needed it is produced straightaway by the gas boiler, turning on a hot water valve will signal the need to the gas boiler. An cost-effective integral heat exchanger is used to rapidly heat up cold water. Hot water in the central heating system is used to instantly heat the heat exchanger. This allows for cold mains water to be rapidly heated before leaving the hot water tap.
Hot water provision to the radiators is a lower priority than the output of instant hot water for the household. The moment the valve is closed the combi heating boiler will return to furnishing hot water to the radiators.
If you do have a storage space problem in your dwelling house you should give serious thought to fitting a combi gas boiler when you next exchange your gas boiler.
