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[Nasher]

And the usual BUS rules apply, so you only get the £2500 grant for A2A if you also remove your gas boiler at the same time.

It's realistically not going to apply to the vast majority of households getting AC installed.

I suppose you could also heat the house using them but it doesn’t tend to work as well as a gas system, nothing does. I'd rather do that than get a normal heatpump though.

I wonder if you moved in to a house which needs the boiler replacing anyway, you get the grant and install AC. Then replace the gas boiler

 

[LiE]

And the usual BUS rules apply, so you only get the £2500 grant for A2A if you also remove your gas boiler at the same time.

It's realistically not going to apply to the vast majority of households getting AC installed.

Yea replacing the boiler with AC will be the hard part for most people. Likely means changes to your hob and water heating.

 

[Nasher]

Yea replacing the boiler with AC will be the hard part for most people. Likely means changes to your hob and water heating.

Hob isn't that much of an issue, just swap with an electric one.

You can get instant water heaters now to remove the need for a tank etc.

 

[Reuben klang]

I suppose you could also heat the house using them but it doesn’t tend to work as well as a gas system, nothing does. I'd rather do that than get a normal heatpump though.

I wonder if you moved in to a house which needs the boiler replacing anyway, you get the grant and install AC. Then replace the gas boiler

You get hybrid systems as well.

Underfloor heating with a heat pump is different gravy, no cold spots and is much cheaper to run than a boiler.

 

[LiE]

Hob isn't that much of an issue, just swap with an electric one.

You can get instant water heaters now to remove the need for a tank etc.

Depends, for us it would need a fair bit of tricky routing to get a big boy wire from the consumer unit to the position of our gas hob.

Hot water cylinders aren't difficult to switch to electric/immersion heaters, I had one installed at my wife's business as they don't have gas. Our current hot water cylinder does have an immersion heater as a back up option and we could always upgrade it to be fed from our solar if needed.

 

[Bazzards]

At the moment I just see the heating element of the system as a bonus. I don’t intend on getting rid of the gas boiler currently.

I note however that there are systems that heat water as well via a water tank. Dependent on how well this system heats, I can look at this in the future.

 

[mattyfez]

At the moment I just see the heating element of the system as a bonus. I don’t intend on getting rid of the gas boiler currently.

I note however that there are systems that heat water as well via a water tank. Dependent on how well this system heats, I can look at this in the future.

Gas isn’t getting cheaper either so you have options in future if the price goes wild.

 

[throwaway4372]

People will get rid of their gas when electricity is cheap and abundant.