**Plumbing advice needed** large family house

[26banna]

Hi all

we need to redo the whole plumbing system in our family house in Brockley, and a Keston brand boiler and system has been recommended by our contractor, which would allow us to put the tank and boiler in the cellar. It's not a brand we'd heard of before.

Has anyone any experience of living with this brand? We are a family of five and hope our investment will last the course. Bosch and Vaillant wouldn't do the same job (its to do with the length of the flue) and we'd need to make a different space to house them nearer to the kitchen and bathrooms.

\thanks in advance for any thoughts you can offer, before we sign on the line..

[Houseoflego]

Vaillant or Worcester bosh are both highly recommended, often. Never heard of Keston, might be because your house has an unusual set up? Or the plumber is on commission? Installation can cost lots more than the boiler itself so its worth a couple of hundred more to get one that is well known as reliable. Also if its a well known brand it will be easier to find people to maintain it or fix it one day.

[alex_b]

I would get a second (and third) opinion. Billy Hunter is very good, I think there's another heating guy who has a long list of glowing recommendations on the forum too.

[Pugwash]

When we purchased our house (large to accommodate 6 people) in the 1970s, we had an oil fired boiler. We then replaced this with a Potterton which lasted many years. The boiler is based in a seperate brick 'house' adjacent to our downstairs bathroom. At the time we had to have a floor based boiler due to the number of rooms in the house. We renewed our central heating system a couple of years ago to a Worcester boiler which is fixed onto the wall of the 'boiler house' we had to raise the height of the house by around 2 feet to allow for the flue. However, we do not have the hot water run off the boiler (it meant re plumbing the whole house and too much agro having 3 elderly relatives with mobility problems plus young children) instead we have 2 multi points- one downstairs which covers kitchen, shower and wash basin, and one upstairs which covers 2 sinks, and bath.

If you have the tank in the cellar will you need a pressure 'booster'> Also planning permission?

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