you put on CH jut for the room you were in I guess ? how powerful is the boiler 30Kw .. so it was on for half the time (ignoring losses),
That happens when they start burning £10 notes.
Yes the exact point I am making, with GCH I am payng to heat up space dont desire to be heated, that in itself is a inefficiency.No
A kWh is a kWh regardless of the source. If you had just the boiler and a single radiator in your room, then it would provide the same heat as that 2kW electric heater for 1/3 the cost.
The only reason the 2kW heater is cheaper is because the boiler is heating the whole house, rather than just the single room - if you want to take that to the logical extreme then an electric blanket is going to be cheaper still.
Moving to a heat pump will exacerbate this, since then you are heating the whole house again, and with the more expensive fuel, so the electric heat pump would need to be 300% efficient to match the cost of heating with gas instead.
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need to ask them about the duvet loft type, and TOG ... full metal jacket of 13.5+ tog in 18C ambiant would be warm, young children excepted, currently using 4.5 in little heated 13ish bedroom.
I left the radiators as they were (bathroom off, kitchen, living, room. bedroom all on), so I guess would have been lower if I turned the others off.
That's amazing
Very well insulated indeed.
The last time our house hit 18 degrees was 13th November.
Yes the exact point I am making, with GCH I am payng to heat up space dont desire to be heated, that in itself is a inefficiency.
The boiler is also heating my water and the pipes, it doesnt have a radiator only mode.
Professionals also state gas is less efficient so even with optimised direction of heat, its not a 1 to 1, although these claims put it at 0.9 to 1. (for the best gas boilers, but remember not all boilers are equal, some are much lower).
Electric vs Gas Heating
Electric vs Gas heating, which should you choose for your home?
If I had room thermostats I might have tried the idea of background temps of 14C via the gas. My boiler costs a ton just to barely reach 16C.
Your idea with just turning on one radiator I think would still be more costly, as most of the radiator is covered so hot air trapped not reaching me, a fan heater blowing the heat at someone effectively allows a "feels like" temp higher than the average room temp.
A gas powered portable fan heater would be interesting, but I think they dont exist.
I also agree a wrap around blanket is probably the winner, and I do have one here ready to go.
Of course it would, but if you think about what I said, I never said what you saying.
But I do appreciate you at least recognised I talking about my specific circumstances of only wanting to heat myself up, not my entire property. When I brought this up elsewhere, I felt I was talking to a wall as people were acting as if I was trying to say using portable heaters is a replacement to heat an entire house, when I never said that.
Of course it would, but if you think about what I said, I never said what you saying.
I said GCH which isnt just meaning gas, its meaning central heating, the entire thing as it is.
I can use GCH if I want to and pay for it, but I need to be building my savings so I can buy a home, hence me been very diligent with what I am spending. Sick of renting completely now and the heating situation is only highlighting how bad it is as I am stuck with my landlord's investment decisions.
Well I did say in the post you quoted "to heat my room", but I apologise if that wasnt enough to say I just am doing one room, other posts did mention it more.
Because it means you now pay in arrears instead of in advance, i.e. reduces their cashflow.
