Boiler Installation in Largs

Largs runs along the shore from the Victorian and Edwardian villas on the front, many of them now divided into flats, through purpose-built retirement developments near the centre, to bungalows and family estates on the slopes behind the town. Fairlie sits along the coast to the south and Skelmorlie to the north. Much of it is gas heated, though not all of it, and the boilers range from originals in the newer flats to ones that have been replaced two or three times in the older houses.

For someone who is at home all day, and particularly someone older living alone, a boiler change lands harder than it does for a household out at work. The house cools from the moment the old boiler is drained down. There is no hot water until the new one is commissioned. Strangers are in and out of the kitchen for most of a day. And at the end of it there is a new set of controls to learn, often replacing a dial that has done the same thing for twenty years.

None of that is a reason to put off a boiler that needs replacing. It is a reason to plan the day, and to think about what the new system takes away as well as what it adds. Plenty of older flats and houses still have a hot water cylinder with an electric immersion heater in it, and for someone at home all day that immersion is the hot water that keeps coming when the boiler does not. A combi does away with the cylinder, and with it the backup.