Guys,
I had someone calling out to check the central heating system. At the moment we’ve got a baxi boiler in the chimney with a gasfire unit sitting in the front. Both are from around 1988, so we were advised to replace in the near future. We also don’t like the fireplace and it sits quite high above the ground. So we would like to rip out the old fireplace and get a new system installed. To replace the whole thing with a new baxi system would cost about 3200 Euros (for new boiler and new front gas unit), but these can only be used with fireplaces with a flat front as these are kind of rectangle insets (see here, at the moment we’ve got GF3 model).
I have a couple of questions to ask now. We would really like a more traditional iron cast fireplace, but most of them come with oval insets. Can you have a boiler behind them with a front unit? Is there a company that does them?
And secondly, is baxi the best option or are there other manufacturers?
And thirdly, having read so much about condensing and self-regulating boilers, etc, are these suitable to put into the chimney?
The reason why we thought we leave it there is that we don’t need an open fire really and there is no really good spot in the house for putting a big boiler, so leaving it in the fireplace is not a bad option.
Any advice greatly appreciated!
I had someone calling out to check the central heating system. At the moment we’ve got a baxi boiler in the chimney with a gasfire unit sitting in the front. Both are from around 1988, so we were advised to replace in the near future. We also don’t like the fireplace and it sits quite high above the ground. So we would like to rip out the old fireplace and get a new system installed. To replace the whole thing with a new baxi system would cost about 3200 Euros (for new boiler and new front gas unit), but these can only be used with fireplaces with a flat front as these are kind of rectangle insets (see here, at the moment we’ve got GF3 model).
I have a couple of questions to ask now. We would really like a more traditional iron cast fireplace, but most of them come with oval insets. Can you have a boiler behind them with a front unit? Is there a company that does them?
And secondly, is baxi the best option or are there other manufacturers?
And thirdly, having read so much about condensing and self-regulating boilers, etc, are these suitable to put into the chimney?
The reason why we thought we leave it there is that we don’t need an open fire really and there is no really good spot in the house for putting a big boiler, so leaving it in the fireplace is not a bad option.
Any advice greatly appreciated!