Chop your gas costs with a combi
Chop your gas costs with a combi
Your gas costs seem to cost more each year as the worldwide call for for energy increases. If you use gas central heating your boiler is a large user gas and large proportion of your gas bill. Changing an old central heating boiler or a new efficient boiler could lead to a important reduction in your energy bills.
A central heating gas fired boiler needs to be able to deliver sufficient hot water to heat your house and provide hot water for laundry. The average gas fired boiler lasts for 15 years before you start to get unforeseen problems and it becomes inefficient. As boiler engineering improves current examples are more efficient than those installed in older homes. You can assess the comparative efficiency of boilers by looking at their SEDBUK grading, SEDBUK A grading is the most cost-effective at 95% efficiency in extracting heat from the gas consumed.
Observing that this it could be cost effective to exchange your boiler if your current model is nearing the end of its lifespan. An energy efficient gas combi-boiler can lead to a large decrease in your gas bills. A combi boiler is the most widely known type of boiler, and is good for small homes with few people, or people who don’t want to wait for their hot water. With a gas combi-boiler you can do away with the hot water storage cylinder saving space as it will heat water when you need it. If you have a combi-boiler you will find that hot water may not be available in the kitchen if you are filling a hot bathtub as it heats the hot water as required.
Standard gas fired boiler types heat hot water and hold it in the hot water tank to be available when needed. Hiving Away hot water for use later is very wasteful and wastes energy. A disadvantage of using any hot water storage cylinder is that it will require space in your house although it does mean that you can access to great amounts of hot water whenever required.
You can get efficiencies of up to 60 % by installing a gas combi boiler and getting rid of the hot water storage cylinder. A combi condensing boiler is even more efficient than a common combination boiler as it extracts heat from the hot exhaust gases and uses it to heat water. The energy demands of the boiler are significantly cut as it reuses the flue gases warmth.