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| Thread ID: 124214 | 2012-04-12 10:36:00 | Installing central heating. | martynz (5445) | PC World Chat |
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| 1269717 | 2012-04-12 10:36:00 | I've had a quote for running 3 rads. off my wetback. Very short pipe runs (2 of the rads will be either side of the wall between 2 bedrooms), single story bungalow. Cost.....$7200. I think I'm being conned. I've asked for a detailed breakdown. Anybody got any useful comments. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1269718 | 2012-04-12 10:48:00 | Sounds a bit excessive. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1269719 | 2012-04-12 21:15:00 | Geez for that amount you could get yourself 3x heatpumps and still have money left over to burn. We got our heat pump including installation for $1,100 just a few months back. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1269720 | 2012-04-12 22:41:00 | Wetbacks......it will boil your water and spew out the roof. It will make the fire lame cause it's redirecting. It won't heat as much as you think. I'd either get a ducting system to direct heat from the fire or a heatpump. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1269721 | 2012-04-13 01:22:00 | I have been in houses where they work really well with negligible impact on the fire but only if it's a free standing fire. If it's an inbuilt one forget it | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1269722 | 2012-04-13 02:42:00 | I've installed ducting in the ceiling in a previous house with a 75W inline fan a y spliiter and 2 outlets for only $2-300 and it did help, but it wasn't great. It did take the chill off the rooms but they were still much cooler than the other half of the house. I think where there's a hallway blocking heatflow like there was in my case a simple low speed high volume fan straight through the wall would do the best job, you want to move a lot of air slowly. Of course there's the Aesthetics to consider, but it would cost hundreds not thousands. consumer recently did a comparison and rated woodburners as still the cheapest form of heating, but at that price you'd take 20 years or more to recover the install cost in savings so you are probably better off with a heatpump or two. Or look around for some second hand radiators and find a cheaper installer (would that be a plumber?) I just got my new bathroom plumbing done for $1600 after the first plumber quoted me over $3k so it pays to shop around. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1269723 | 2012-04-13 06:18:00 | I've had a quote for running 3 rads. off my wetback. Very short pipe runs (2 of the rads will be either side of the wall between 2 bedrooms), single story bungalow. Cost.....$7200. I think I'm being conned. I've asked for a detailed breakdown. Anybody got any useful comments. It can be a real art running radiators off a wet back without using a pump and someone who knows how to do it properly is worth their weight in gold. Without knowing what type of radiator etc it is hard to know if it is a rip off. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1269724 | 2012-04-15 07:41:00 | Thanks everyone. Its a freestanding stove not inset and it vents (rarely) into the header tank not the outside. I'm already ducting warm air from the kitchen (where its installed) to the living room. I'm getting another quote and chasing up another firm who never submitted one. The rads. will be pumped. |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 1269725 | 2012-04-15 20:38:00 | Have you visited the ecobob forum? This topic has been discussed regularly on it. It can be a bit hard to navigate ..... | ellpow (16400) | ||
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