Save gas with a combi
Save gas with a combi
It appears that every month energy prices are going up resulting in higher gas heating bills. One way of cutting heating costs is to critique how you are wasting gas in the home. Exchanging an older central heating boiler or a new economic heating boiler could lead to a large reduction in your energy bills.
Your current boiler has to work hard delivering hot water to your taps and heating water for your central heating. The typical heating boiler lasts for 15 years before you start to get unannounced problems and it becomes wasteful. Although your boiler at home may only be 10 or 12 years old it could be wasting energy. Your old gas boiler may only be 20% efficient whereas a modern SEDBUK A ranked boiler could be up to 95% efficient.
If your heating boiler is over ten years old, it might be worth investing in a fresh model. An gas efficient gas 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 small 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 demand, doing away with the need for a storage tank. 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 needed.
A average central heating boiler will use a hot water tank to store hot water it produces during the day. Even though there hot water cylinder may be lagged it will lose heat leading to waste in the heating system. 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.
A combination boiler is a type of central heating boiler where the water is heated on demand and is 60% more efficient than the indirect hot water storage method. The most efficient type of gas combi boiler is a condensing combi boiler which has an additional heat extract to reclaim the heat in the exhaust gases and use of this to heat your water reducing its gas consumption. Clever use of this gas to heat the water on need means that this type of gas fired boiler can further save on your gas costs.