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Use a combi in a small dwelling house

Use a combi in a small dwelling house to save a lot of space which you can put too much better use than housing water tanks and hot water cylinders.

If you have a small home a combination gas boiler offers storage space saving opportunities to you. This opportunity flows from the basic design of a combi boiler and does not require any special change in the installation design or fabrication of the system.

If you look at a standard central heating system design you may realise that it is possible to fit a complete central heating and hot water system by purchasing only a gas powered combination gas boiler with a balanced flue. All that is additionally needed to heat your rooms is some copper piping and some radiators. Of course we have missed out the vital inclusion of one friendly central heating boiler installer but you understand where we are going with this example. You might ask whether we had missed some component parts out of this statement. Central heating systems seem to need a hot water tank to store water, a feed and enlargement cylinder in the attic and a water pump to move everything around.

It may surprise you to learn that a combi boiler does not need these component parts as its design means that it actually does not utilise any of these components. You do not need to purchase a hot water storage cylinder, there is no need for an attic based feed and enlargement cylinder, the combination gas boiler houses the other components inside its casing. The consequence is that a lot of space is saved inside your house.

Combination gas boilers have been installed for a while. Whilst they were first fitted in the Continent they are now a very popular boiler for installation in the UK. There are two main differences between this form of heating boiler and its better known alternatives. The central heating hot water circulation system is sealed. This means that there is no need for a feed and expansion cylinder in the attic. The heating boiler itself incorporates a large capacity expansion cylinder but again this is part of the sealed unit.

The boiler produces hot water immediately as it is required, turning on a hot water valve will alert the heating boiler to this need. The heating boiler can rapidly heat cold water by using an internal heat exchanger. Hot water in the central heating system is used to immediately heat the heat exchanger. This permits cold mains water to be rapidly heated before leaving the hot water valve.

Hot water output is prioritised ahead of the transit of hot water to the radiators. The instant the valve is closed the combination heating boiler will return to supplying hot water to the radiators.

If you do have a storage space issue in your house you should give great consideration to fitting a combination boiler when you next replace your heating boiler.

In life with every benefit of course the flows some constraint or disadvantage. In this instance you need to be aware that the quote on demand” production of hot water means there is a theoretical limit to how much hot water the combi boiler can produce. In homes with smaller families this is not an issue. The problem may arise when there is a requirement to use several sources of hot water at the same time– an example would be when one person is running a hot water bath whilst another change on the hot shower and the washing machine is drawing hot water at the same time. If you have a family with only a couple of people within it a combi boiler could be the ideal choice for you.

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