advise with heating options in my house

[_Jimlad_]

Hello we live in a small 3 bedroom house that we purchased 5 years back. It is all electric with no gas at all. im currently getting a quote for the pipe work, but due to the distance its looking like £500 - £700, and then we would need i guess a few grand spent on a boiler, rads and the install.

I could get this done, but wondering what other options are out there and is electric really that bad, or could i get some sort of heating system that is almost in the same league cost and efficiency wise as a gas system?

As it stands i have 2 working storage heaters, one in the master room and one in the front front. This is fine for me, but we just had a babba and need something better in place.

Any advise welcome.

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ps can we get a DIY and Home section on the forum ?

 

[_Jimlad_]

cheers chaps, well waiting for the quote for how much it will cost to hook up the gas to the house, the lady said it really can vary from £120 to over 1k - depends on how far they have to dig. tbh even if i did save the money spending a grand on just getting the pipes in would hurt like hell. the lady on the phone reckons if i have a neighbour on gas it should only be around the minimum (£120)

 

[_Jimlad_]

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[_Jimlad_]

If you dig the trenches through your garden and up to the house than this will save you some bank

yeah would be prepared to do that if it saved some $

have you considered an air source heat pump?

the government have just announced the latest renewable heat incentive scheme and air source heat pumps are part of it. They cost a bit to put in but will save you money on your energy bills compared to gas and you'll now also get yearly grants from the government.

I think it will cost you a lot more than £2000 to install a heating system and a boiler. I'd probably double that to be honest.

no will look into that, thank you

I have electric heating, we ripped out the storage heaters and have 3 new electric heaters.

We have just been taken off economy 7 and I need to sort out the lowest KWh tariff I can, I will let you know how I get on as the Mrs has started turning the heating on from today.

We also did it due to our daughter being born

We plan to move in the near future though so didn't fancy ripping up everything for pipework to do gas.

i'd definitely have preferred gas.

do you have a link for the heaters you got? because short term that might have to be an option if the gas install to the mains is too much

The first time you have a decent shower after a crappy electric will make it all worthwhile

Then you get to cook on an actual flame, which is even better

just purchased a new oven, so that will stay electric anyway. modern electric ovens are pretty good tow tbh

 

[_Jimlad_]

Jim how many neighbours do you have?

Its quite possible there are others who would take a share of the bill of getting the gas close to you and then you can share the cost.
If you all work in isolation you could all dismiss the gas as too expensive, where as even finding one neighbour who would share you would be almost halfing the cost if £700 was accurate.

Is it worth getting a flyer and posting through all the doors. Gas company may even help you, or may waive the cost of the long run of piping and you all pay the minimum to install if they get a load of customers out of it.

good call mate, i will do that.

 

[_Jimlad_]

Ill report back in a month how its going. My wife is off on maternity so they are being used daily, ill let you know how economical (or not) they are.

I have 3 heaters it cost me £1200.

1 x 1000w bedroom, 1 x 750w hall and 1 x 1750w living room. Its a 1 bedroom maisonette.

thanks mate, i sent you a pm, hope you dont mind, just wanted to quiz you further, waiting to hear back from the gas company as well. undecided at present.

 

[_Jimlad_]

they want at least 2.5k for gas install lol, they have to dig up so much road... got a quote from these guys

http://www.ecopowerheating.co.uk/

came in at £1800 for 1 large and 3 medium ones

 

[_Jimlad_]

Did you ever speak to neighbours jimlad?

They not interested or you didnt get time?

spoke to a few, they are all electric and no plans to change, i knocked on one further down the road and he said he was quoted 5k plus for the road works 4 years ago. he said if the price was around 1500 he would be prepared to "work something out" waiting to hear back from the gas board, but its not likely to have come down as still no one else has gas.

All electric heating here.

toasty!

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lol

 

[_Jimlad_]

i got this from a well wisher at work

"a £20 oil filled radiator or a £10 fan heater from Argos will produce EXACTLY the same amount of heat, for the same running cost, as any electrical heater - even those costing many £hundreds.

If you have storage heaters you probably have an Economy 7 electricity tariff. If you get normal(i.e. not storage) heaters you will need to change to a single rate tariff.

However I would really consider if it is worth carrying on with storage heaters. For all their faults, they do provide cheaper electrical heating and also on Economy 7 you heat water at off-peak rates."

 

[_Jimlad_]

aye, yeah i want to replace the storage ones for sure, the one in the bedroom is uncontrollable and the one in the front room is sooooo old and dated its a pain, apart from that we dont have any other heaters!