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Why Condensing Gas Combi-boilers Are Cost-effective
Cost-effective gas combi-boilers
Your energy costs seem to cost more every year as the worldwide call for for energy increases. One way of pruning heating bills is to survey how you are wasting energy in the home. Installing a modern condensing gas combi boiler could save you 30 percent on your gas costs.
Running in the background your present-day heating boiler will be heating your house and offering hot water for washing cutlery and clothing in addition to powering your bath. After 15 years your central heating boiler will have passed its useful life and start to become inefficient. New and replacement boilers will be much more economical than your present-day gas boiler. A cutting-edge gas fired boiler can be 95% efficient in its use of gas and graded A on the SEDBUK scale whereas your current gas boiler may only be 30% cost-effective.
If your central heating boiler is over 10 years old, it might be worth investing in a another model. This can trim your fuel costs down considerably. A combi 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. As a gas combi boiler heats the water on call for it does not need a storage cylinder in the airing cupboard. Hot water is instant but if someone runs a hot tap while you're taking a hot shower you may find that your hot shower becomes colder.
Standard gas boiler types heat hot water and hold it in the hot water tank to be available when needed. This is the most ineffective method and the heat losses are great even with a fully lagged tank. A drawback of using any hot water storage tank is that it will require space in your house although it does mean that you can access to larger amounts of hot water whenever called for.
eradicating the storage cylinder by installing a gas combi-boiler means that your central heating system will be up to 60% more efficient. Another form of the combination boiler is the combi condensing boiler which is able to extract waste heat from the flue gases and use this to heat water when necessary. Using the reclaimed heat to create hot water leads to additional energy savings.
David is the administrator of npower Boiler Service, a web site which contains articles and information on servicing your gas boiler. http://www.boiler-care.co.uk/gas-boiler-service/. Please visit for more information on how npower can help.
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