Central Heating Boiler
 

There must be someone out there who has a newish condensing type boiler?
We've been recommended a new replacement boiler (Glow Worm) to be fitted in the garage (original Potterton in the Kitchen) and we've been assured that the heating of the garage from a new boiler install is minimal.
Problem is we have a pair of tortoise hibernating in the garage and bringing them out of hibernation due to a temperature rise could be fatal.
The old boiler in the kitchen puts out quite a lot of heat, with the casing being too hot to touch for long when it's running.

Can anyone confirm what we've been told?

Thanks!
RR

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not long had our heating replaced with a condensing boiler, its in the cupboard and still puts out a fair amount of heat, so much so that at night i can leave the cupboard door open and switch the living room radiator off and when we get up the living room is a comfortable heat with the heat put out from the cupboard.

husky

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Our condensing boiler is in a cupboard on the 2nd floor, it gives out very minimal heat. People would normally call it an airing cupboard for drying towels etc, but its no where near warm enough.

I guess it depends on the make and classification etc. The more heat radiating from it the less efficient it is being. Class A like ours give out next to no heat.

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We have one of those new boilers too. Ours is never that warm even when it's on. I'd be surprised if you noticed a difference if you put one in the garage.

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Think this will be a Class A efficiency rating - or whatever the current top classification is.
I'd imagine a hot boiler is wasting heat - particularly in the garage!
Nice for the SV though...


RR

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We have a Baxi duo-tec condensing combi which puts out 33kW (house is quite large). It's mounted in the downstairs toliet / washroom, which is only about 6 feet by 3 feet, and even when working hard it prodoces very little heating of the room, so in winter it doesn't feel particularly warm in there.

If it were in my garage it wouldn't make a noticeable difference to the temperature.

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Mine is a Worcester combi. It produces sod all heat directly into the kitchen where it is fitted requiring that I had to install a radiator just to keep the chill off the room

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we have a condensing boiler it does give off some heat enough to warm towels but its in an old airing cupboard and like previously said its not enough to dry clothes. having had a tortoise as a child i wouldnt keep it near my boiler.

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I was told by those in the know that Glowworm are crap, so got a Worcester last year instead
The case seems to be plastic - it certainly doesn't get very hot

I'd have thought that the tortoise(s) were in more danger from being woken up by all the banging about, or don't they have ears :confused:

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I've got an Alpha condensing boiler, which lives in its own little house in the back garden. Neither the casing nor the boiler house get hot.