A boiler supplying hot water or heating that is built in behind a fireplace or is an integral part of a gas fire.
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The lounge has also maple flooring along with a feature fireplace with back boiler.
The living room has an open fire with a solid fuel back boiler, with an ornate cast iron surround and tile hearth.
The front door leads directly to a large living room which has an open fireplace with back boiler.
Every council home in Bolton that has a Baxi gas fire, back boiler, and flue system, will be checked.
She bought it in 2000 for about £235,000, when it was still heated by a back boiler and scarcely inhabitable by today's standards.
We had someone round last night to give us quote for new central heating, the current system is a very old back boiler system and is about as controllable as Lollypop!
An integral back boiler provides domestic hot water and heats the radiators, which then provide central heating.
Neysa, 28, was two months pregnant when the back boiler at her home in Hodder Street, Accrington, broke in August.
A large brick fireplace, which is fitted with a coal-effect gas fire and back boiler, provides a focal point.
Business people found it were difficult to operate while householders were very worried that back boilers might explode.
We can't heat the house because we have back boilers and we can't light a fire when the power is out.
This room has a back boiler in addition to the dual-system central heating.
There is also a winter sitting room with back boiler and double doors leading to the back garden.
The agreement was to install full gas central heating with a boiler in the kitchen and replace the gas fire / back boiler in the living room with a standard gas fire’.
With pipes frozen, there was danger that the back boiler on his fire would explode.
Boilers can also be divided into floor-standing, wall-hung and back boilers.
There is an open fireplace with back boiler and the Belfast sink has a tiled drainer.