Your gas heating bills seem to cost more each year as the worldwide call for for gas increases. To stop the year on year increments you need to look at how you are using energy. Switching an aging gas boiler or a new economic combi gas boiler could lead to a big reduction in your gas bills.
Your present-day gas boiler provides your hot water and central heating. After 15 years your boiler will have run its useful lifetime and begin to become ineffective. As boiler technology improves current models are more cost-efficient than those installed in older homes. Your old gas boiler may only be 20% efficient whereas a modern SEDBUK A graded boiler could be up to 95% cost-efficient.
As your existing boiler reaches the end of its life there is an increased likelihood that you will save on your energy costs if you replace it. A new combi gas boiler should lead to a large reduction in your gas bills. combi boilers are the most popular boilers and are best suited to smaller homes where there are not several simultaneous requirements for hot water. With a combi-boiler you can eliminate the hot water storage cylinder saving space as it will heat water when you need it. Whilst the boiler can provide immediate hot water it will have a limited capacity and will not be able to service multiple hot taps at the same time.
A typical heating boiler will use a hot water cylinder to store hot water it produces during the daytime. You will get heat loss and energy losses even though the hot water cylinder is insulated. Whilst hiving away the water means that large amounts of hot water are available from the cylinder it will take up valuable space in your home.
60 % heating efficiencies are available to you by changing to a new combi boiler which will heat water on call and not require the inefficient 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 called for. Taking reclaimed heat back into the hot water heating process significantly trims the demand for energy use and will lead to a further step-down in your gas heating bills.
