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Looking at a house and it has the old style warm air heating fitted.
Is it easy to remove including all the ducting and gubbins.
Also what sort of price would it be to install and fit a normal boiler and rads to a 3 bed semi ?
Some of the ducting can be lined with asbestos. Do you know when it was fitted?
Usually a huge box somewhere in house connected to ducts going under floor or through walls, ducts made from metal and sometimes insulated with asbestos lagging, or may be sprayed on, theyre usually full of dust, and have sharp edges, the underfloor ones are quite good to hide stuff in, eg a safe or secure box , just relay a false floor above , when removed,did that for a customer a few years ago, the plumber may be able to use the runs to run hdpe pipe through.
As above, the ducting to mine is largely still under the floor and will be staying there as they are large sharp objects wrapped in unknown material. The floor vents are long gone when the flooring was laid and the remaining vents in the walls are not really a concern and would be simple to remove. As they are, they help ventilate my washing cupboard and kit store.
OK cheers for the replies.
I'm guessing the house is from the 70's
It sounds like a good plan to leave the ducting under floors etc where it's not seen.
What about the boiler part ? Is that a bit if a hard job to remove as well. I guess this will also have asbestos in it too.
Going to view the house next week so will see how it goes.
Hi, my house was built in the early nineties. It has more modern warm air heating which I love: It heats the house so much more quickly than the wet system we had in the last place and the more modern control systems keep the temperature constant much more successfully than before. It also has an electrostatic filter so the air is much cleaner as it's circulated about 6 times and hour. There are no radiators so you can lay the rooms out much more flexibly.
The down side I suppose is finding someone to maintain the system (you have to have special qualifications) and the vents around mean sound can travel around the house more than usual.
If I were you I'd go in with an open mind about the heating, if it's a more modern system you may find you're ripping a very decent system out for no reason at all.
Edit: If it turns out that it's a more modern system, it's well worth learning about how it works because it really isn't like a wet system. My email is in my profile if you want some advice.
What's a ball park figure for fitting central heating (boiler ,rads, etc) to a 3 bed semi ?
Just wondering if I can factor in the removal of the warm air heating and fitting a boiler etc into my offer on the house.
It's been on for a few months and then had a price reduction by 5k and then was taken off the market for 3 weeks and came back on at 195k.
The one directly opposite this one was on at offers in excess of 200k and sold within a week ? However it did have an extension on the back and also the loft had been converted into a bedroom.
What would you be offering.
Our house (built 1971) had electric warm air CH, when we finally changed to a gas boiler we where able to use some of the ducts to neatly run the plastic pipes to the new radiators.
Edit: Our previous house had gas warm air and that was much better when compared to the electric, it warmed up quickly and was really flexible. I can't remember how much it cost to run (it was nearly 35 years ago).
Get yourself an mvhr unit tied into it. 😛
Our house 'had' it, the previous owners replaced the boiler and had a 'wet' system put in.. the original vents are still there and cause no issues. I keep thinking about taking out the ducting in the loft, but it seems 'make work' when it doing no harm. Cover up the vents and ignore it?
Lived in two houses with warm air heating. Really liked it on both occasions. Instant heat up, no space on walls taken up by the radiator and brilliant for drying wet riding kit.
If the ducts are visible they are easy to remove (but not clean) if they are hidden just cover the vents.
The system we had (1970s build) just pumped dust around the house and dried out the air horribly so was replaced with radiators. A modern zonal system like the ones they use in Canada is a much different beast though, they can be pretty good.
Away view the house first Barney, THEN decide all these wee details!