Gas boiler ban in 4 years?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-571...
If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
A500leroy said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-571...
If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
Worth investing in wood burners I think If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
BabySharkDooDooDooDooDooDoo said:
A500leroy said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-571...
If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
Worth investing in wood burners I think If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
A500leroy said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-571...
If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
Air source heat pumps are about £6k. Still about 2-3 times that of a new gas boiler, and too expensive for mass use at the moment, but not £16kIf a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
While I don't agree with the ban in the slightest, I can at least see it working somehow with new builds where they are designed with the heating system in mind.
What happens with my older house with a gas boiler. Say it breaks down in 5 years and I can't get it fixed, what happens then? Replacing a gas boiler with something else is going to mean changing the rest of the heating system. What would be a £2k or so replacement might end up costing me £20k if I need the garden digging up or 15 new bigger radiators or whatever else. It is just ridiculous.
What happens with my older house with a gas boiler. Say it breaks down in 5 years and I can't get it fixed, what happens then? Replacing a gas boiler with something else is going to mean changing the rest of the heating system. What would be a £2k or so replacement might end up costing me £20k if I need the garden digging up or 15 new bigger radiators or whatever else. It is just ridiculous.
Electro1980 said:
A500leroy said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-571...
If a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
Air source heat pumps are about £6k. Still about 2-3 times that of a new gas boiler, and too expensive for mass use at the moment, but not £16kIf a heat pump really costs £16000, whos going to buy one?
cb31 said:
While I don't agree with the ban in the slightest, I can at least see it working somehow with new builds where they are designed with the heating system in mind.
What happens with my older house with a gas boiler. Say it breaks down in 5 years and I can't get it fixed, what happens then? Replacing a gas boiler with something else is going to mean changing the rest of the heating system. What would be a £2k or so replacement might end up costing me £20k if I need the garden digging up or 15 new bigger radiators or whatever else. It is just ridiculous.
Move away from using radiators. I'm having my house extended and renovated and it's getting underfloor heating throughout apart from the hallway which will have a radiator. It's much cheaper to run, frees up wall space from radiators and produces a nicer, more evenly heated environment. Cost-wise it's not a big deal if you do it as part of other work, especially if you're renovating a whole house or changing floor coverings in a room. In the former it's probably cheaper as you don't have radiators to buy as any type of rad other than your standard white single or double type (which look like sWhat happens with my older house with a gas boiler. Say it breaks down in 5 years and I can't get it fixed, what happens then? Replacing a gas boiler with something else is going to mean changing the rest of the heating system. What would be a £2k or so replacement might end up costing me £20k if I need the garden digging up or 15 new bigger radiators or whatever else. It is just ridiculous.
te, lets be fair) aren't cheap. AJL308 said:
Move away from using radiators.
I love ufh but it is easier said than done. We've just had a large extension done and that now has underfloor heating but it just isn't practical in the rest of the house. We'd have to rip up the oak flooring downstairs and then dig out the concrete slab, massive costs. We've got a fancy Viessmann floorstanding boiler with a touchscreen which is new and some lovely radiators downstairs, it would be stupid to do it. Roofless Toothless said:
At the age of 72, fighting cancer, I think my interest in the subject is academic.
However, I wonder how they heat crematoria?
https://dfweurope.com/electric-cremator/However, I wonder how they heat crematoria?
Not uncommon in countries where gas is expensive and electricity cheap.
cb31 said:
AJL308 said:
Move away from using radiators.
I love ufh but it is easier said than done. We've just had a large extension done and that now has underfloor heating but it just isn't practical in the rest of the house. We'd have to rip up the oak flooring downstairs and then dig out the concrete slab, massive costs. We've got a fancy Viessmann floorstanding boiler with a touchscreen which is new and some lovely radiators downstairs, it would be stupid to do it. This specific report does seem to suggest no new gas boilers for any property, new or otherwise. That could be expensive for some!
It should be easy to implement this for new builds though.
I lived in a four bed semi-detached for a year, built in 2014. Nothing special, just met building regs. During the year it was occupied throughout the day and night and always kept at 21 degrees.
It required 6000kwh of gas to do that. If that was electricity it would not be at all terrible. And I'm sure a new house can be made more efficient and cheaper to heat than a boggo standard cheap new build.
It should be easy to implement this for new builds though.
I lived in a four bed semi-detached for a year, built in 2014. Nothing special, just met building regs. During the year it was occupied throughout the day and night and always kept at 21 degrees.
It required 6000kwh of gas to do that. If that was electricity it would not be at all terrible. And I'm sure a new house can be made more efficient and cheaper to heat than a boggo standard cheap new build.
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