Gas combi-boilers save gas
Gas combi-boilers save gas
It appears that each month gas prices are going up resulting in higher gas costs. One leading consumer of energy in the house is the gas boiler. Installing a modern condensing gas combi-boiler could save you one third on your gas costs.
Your present-day gas fired boiler delivers your hot water and central heating. After fifteen years your boiler will have run its useful lifetime and begin to become inefficient. If your boiler is nearing the end of its lifetime it could be very wasteful in comparison to fresher models. Your aging gas boiler may only be 20% efficient whereas a modern SEDBUK A graded boiler could be up to 95% efficient.
If your gas fired boiler is over 10 years old, it might be worth investing in a another model. An energy efficient gas combination boiler can lead to a large decrease in your energy bills. If you have a small home with a intermediate need for hot water a gas combi boiler is probably the best option for you. Your hot water storage cylinder becomes redundant with a combi-boiler which heats water on demand. The slight drawback with immediate hot water is that there is a limited throughput meaning that large households may not be able to run several baths or showers at the same time.
A regular heating boiler heats the water and channels it to a storage cylinder for fast access. This is the most wasteful method and the heat losses are great even with a fully lagged cylinder. 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 combination boiler and getting rid of the hot water storage tank. A combi condensing boiler is even more economic than a common combination boiler as it extracts heat from the hot exhaust gases and uses it to heat water. Using the reclaimed heat to create hot water leads to additional gas savings.