Boilers · Suitable properties
Suitable properties.
The property archetypes for which a 2026 boiler still makes sense, and the ones where the conversation should be about a heat pump instead.
- Victorian terrace
Solid brick walls, often un-insulated
- Edwardian semi-detached
Larger rooms than Victorian equivalents
- Interwar semi (1920s–1930s)
Early cavity walls (often un-filled)
- Postwar semi (1945–1980)
Cavity walls, sometimes filled
- Bungalow
Single-storey, large roof area for solar
- Conservatory
Glazed walls and roof
- Modern detached (post-2000)
Cavity walls with insulation to building regs of the era