Chop your energy bills with a combi
Chop your energy bills with a combi
Gas costs are up around the globe and it appears that gas costs cost more each year. To combat this we need to review our use of gas in the house. Exchanging an aging central heating boiler or a new efficient gas boiler could lead to a significant reduction in your energy bills.
Your current gas boiler has to work hard providing hot water to your taps and heating water for your central heating. After fifteen years your gas boiler will have run its useful life-time and start to become uneconomical. New and replacement boilers will be much more economical than your present-day boiler. You can appraise the comparative efficiency of boilers by looking at their SEDBUK rating, SEDBUK A rating is the most economic at 95% efficiency in extracting heat from the gas consumed.
As your existing boiler reaches the end of its life there is an elevated likelihood that you will save on your gas bills if you replace it. A new heating boiler should lead to a large reduction in your gas heating bills. If you do replace your boiler you could study a gas combination boiler which is ideally suited for the smaller home or properties where there are a limited number of people in the home. A gas combi-boiler draws water through the mains and heats it on call for, doing away with the need for a storage cylinder. Although the boiler can provide immediate hot water it will have a limited throughput and will not be able to service several hot taps at the same time.
A typical central heating boiler heats the water and channels it to a storage tank for fast access. You will get heat loss and energy losses even though the hot water tank is insulated. Whilst storing the water means that significant amounts of hot water are available from the tank it will take up precious space in your home.
60 percent heating efficiencies are accessible to you by converting to a combi-boiler which will heat water on demand and not require the inefficient hot water storage tank. Another variant of the combi boiler is the combi condensing boiler which is able to extract waste heat from the flue gases and use this to heat water when called for. Using the recovered heat to create hot water leads to additional energy savings.