Get a combi gas boiler for your heating
Oh dear, the winter has come and I need to blog about my home heating. Has a problem recently and needed to think about a new boiler so what should I select.
If you have a space issue in your household, like I do, you should study fitting a Combi Boiler. With just a combi gas boiler and balanced flue you really have all the components you need to set up a full gas central heating system. To complete the home heating you just need a few radiators, the required copper fittings and a quantity of copper pipes. Your first reaction maybe that we had forgotten some components. What about the central heating pump, the hot water storage cylinder and the feed and enlargement cylinder that are present in all central heating systems.
It may shock you to learn that a combi boiler does not require these pieces, great that’s less space needed!. You will have no need for a hot water storage tank, there is no call at all for for an loft based feed and expansion tank, and the other common pieces are already built into the boiler chassis. Adopting this system means you can save a significant amount of room which pleased my wife – she got her airing cupboard back.
Combination boilers have been fitted for a while and are not a new technology. They have a longer history in Europe but have now become the most common heating boiler in the United Kingdom. A quick check with conventional gas boilers reveals two major differences A fully sealed system contains the circulating hot water for the central heating. The feed and enlargement cylinder destined for the attic can now be dispensed with. The hot water storage cylinder can also be given up as the heating boiler will have its own hot water storage cylinder.
Hot water is only created as it is required, switching on a hot water tap will flag the need to the boiler. The boiler can quickly heat cold water by using an integral heat exchanger. Hot water in the central heating system is used to instantly heat the heat exchanger. In this way new mains cold water is rapidly heated before reaching the hot water tap.
The heating boiler design gives priority to producing instant hot water. As soon as the hot water tap is closed the combination heating boiler system will once more start furnishing hot water to the radiators.
This might give you food for thought and the impulse to consider a combination gas boiler as your next brand-new boiler. It is also a condensing boiler which means that it is very efficient with up to 90% of the gas used creating heat – that is only 10% wastage and really reduces the gas bills.
Stop Press – the UK Government has now announced details of a boiler scrappage scheme. This boiler scrappage scheme that pay people £400 to replace their old boilers with new, more energy efficient ones. This must be worth a look and a major opportunity for homeowners to replace their old gas boilers and save money on their energy bills.