When the boiler, expired about 18 months ago, the plumber suggested moving the new one to exactly the place we had talked about (and dismissed as too expensive) 5 years before! So that changed our plans for the kitchen and meant my long held dream of knocking down a couple of walls, turning three small rooms into a huge dining kitchen have been able to happen.
First step was building a boiler room round the new boiler and thermal store. That happened a few months ago. Then last weekend the walls came down. And it's fantastic. I'm still clearing away plaster dust, which keeps re-appearing and all our beloved books have had to be packed away until we manage to put the bookshelves up in their new home, but the whole place feels light and airy and my farmhouse table which has always been shoved in a corner because none of the rooms were big enough for it is now in the middle - no more dinner on our laps.
