Can I install a new back boiler?

Question

I currently have a 30+ year old Glowworm Majorca gas back boiler installed in my house and it broke down before christmas. Does anybody know if we are allowed to get a new back boiler installed and how much it will cost? The house is 70-80 years old and there are no spare walls to fit a condensing boiler, so a back boiler seems to be my only option!

Answer 1

Nope, all boilers fitted now must be condensing boilers and theres no such thing as a condensing back boiler.

Agree with the suggestion of getting a combi fitted in your loft. if uve got plenty of room u might be able to have a normal boiler in your loft, keeping ur cylinder for the hot water, but might cost a h**l of a lot more to install as tank will have to be raised ect

Answer 2

IF you can find a back boiler for sale then that's a very good start...

According to the new regulations only high efficiency (HE) boilers in either band A or B are allowed to be fitted unless certain criteria can be met...

It is virtually impossible that an HE boiler cannot be fitted in a property, there are huge ranges of products available from the boiler manufacturers to make the installers life easy when trying to site these modern boilers, i.e: Plume diverter kits, vertical flue kits and condense pumps etc, so there's a 99% chance you'll be able to find somewhere to site a high efficiency boiler in your property.

Why would you want to install another back boiler when they are so drastically inefficient?

Hope this helps..

Answer 3

its against the law for you to do it you need a corgi engineer to replace it for you.costly though

Answer 4

have you thought about putting the boiler in the attic/loft space? most fitters can do this, just will cost a little extra to flu out and drain. you'd be hard pushed to find anyone who would fit an old style back boiler, pretty sure you must have a high efficency one these days. get someone in to have a look, you'd be suprised where you can fit a boiler now.

Answer 5

If you can find one and have it fitted by a corgi registered no problem.

Answer 6

We had a combi installed in our loft after our back boiler broke down.Making more space in the airing cupboard no tank.house cooler in summer no hot water pipes to heat house.

Answer 7

There is no problem replacing your back boiler, so long as you get it done by a CORGI registered fitter.

Answer 8

I doubt if you will find a back boiler anywhere. They went out of production about 10 years ago.Can you fit a combi in your bathroom or any bedroom at all, even a shed outside would do.