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Anyone got experience of a central heating system with a plate heat exchanger separate from the boiler?
My prehistoric boiler pilot light has gone out for the second time this winter. Last time I got it to relight after a couple of hours trying. Tonight it's taking longer. Time for a new boiler. (Hopefully it will light later and I can delay this until the weather is better.)
The current system isn't pressurised and one heating engineer has suggested that if we do pressurise it I'll probably have leaks in the old pipework in the most inconvenient places. He recommended a new condensing boiler connected to a plate heat exchanger to keep the old bit separate which would also have the advantage of isolating the new boiler from the old crude. Boiler and hot water tank are in the garage with loads of space.