central heating

[beansontoast]

we are looking to buy a house which currently has central heating worked via a back boiler and wood burning stove how much would it cost to put an ordinary boiler in to run the heating so we don't have to light the stove every time we wnat hot water or radiators on

[j2buttonsw]

Will it have a gas supply? You can keep the existing plumbing and just replace the back boiler with a gas boiler (you can do everything yourself except fitting the gas).

[ryanL]

If you like the fire and want to take advantage of the economy of solid fuel, a Dunsley Baker Neutralizer would allow you to use the heat from the back boiler when the fire is on and use a gas boiler when it's not. see http://www.solidfuel.co.uk/pdfs/link_up.pdf. The Neutralizers are �250ish, a new boiler is around �500+ and then there's the fitting costs.