T. Cosgrove - Plumbing and Heating Services: Condensing the vapour

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These are some Worcester Bosch Greenstar combination boiler installs that we have completed since July 2008.
One boiler was installed in a garage in a semi-detached house in Waterfoot where the old boiler had been and the other boiler was installed in an old kitchen pantry next to the kitchen in a semi-detached house on Mearns Road in Clarkston and in another installation the new boiler was moved to the utility room from the old boiler position in the kitchen of a detached bungalow in Newton Mearns
The home owners were delighted with the work, the quality of the boilers and the hot water produced by them.
Two of the jobs were replacing old cast iron boilers which were over 25 years old and were very inefficient the other was a replacement for a ten year old Vokera Exel with very poor hot water.
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31 July 2008

Condensing the vapour

Condensing

The term 'condensing' is derived from the creation of condensation within the heat exchanger or flue. This liquid will need to be conveyed away to a drain via a plastic discharge pipe run by the installing engineer. When combustion of any kind takes place water vapour is always produced. In a 'standard efficiency' boiler the flue gas temperature is kept relatively high to avoid condensation and its related issues. But in a high efficiency boiler, so much of the heat produced in the combustion process is absorbed by the heat exchanger into the heating water and very little is wasted to the atmosphere via the flue, hence less fuel is burned to achieve the same results but the consequence is condensation which is dealt with in the appropriate manner.

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