Gas combination boilers reduce gas bills
Gas combination boilers reduce gas bills
As the world grows there is increasing call for for energy and prices are increasing each year. One way of reducing heating costs is to survey how you are consuming energy in the home. You could reduce your gas costs by up to 35% if you fit a new energy-saving condensing gas combi boiler.
Your existing gas fired boiler provides your hot water and central heating. Boilers have a lifespan of fifteen years. New and replacement boilers will be much more economical than your present-day boiler. You can assess the relative efficiency of boilers by looking at their SEDBUK rating, SEDBUK A grading is the most cost-effective at 95% efficiency in pulling heat from the gas consumed.
You need to consider whether it is cost-efficient to continue with your older gas boiler as it reaches the end of its life rather than switching to a new replacement boiler and enjoying the increased gas efficiency. An energy efficient combi-boiler can lead to a large reduction in your gas bills. A combination boiler is the most widely known type of boiler, and is good for smaller homes with few people, or people who don’t want to wait for their hot water. A gas combination boiler draws water through the mains and heats it on need, doing away with the need for a storage cylinder. Having immediate hot water is an advantage but, depending upon the the power rating of your boiler, you may see that the central heating boiler is not able to supply several hot taps at the same time.
Other heating boiler types use a hot water cylinder to store hot water so that it is available in larger measures later in the day. The hot water cylinder is a major source of heat loss in the system leading to waste. If you have a smaller home you will find that you could have other uses for the space that the hot water cylinder takes up.
You can get efficiencies of up to 60 % by installing a gas combi-boiler and getting rid of the hot water storage cylinder. Another form 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 needed. Clever use of this gas to heat the water on demand means that this type of heating boiler can further save on your gas bills.