Janos:
Carryfast:
Janos:
Anybody have experience of using an electric water heater instead of gas?Indirect hot water cylinders usually have an electric immersion heater, for hot water not heating, in the system for if the gas boiler is off line for whatever reason.Try it and see what that alone does to the fuel bill let alone if it included heating.
A gas boiler runs at around 20 kwh + for hot water and heating.
Electric is 26p per kwh as opposed to 6p per kwh for gas …so far, with Bozo having just ramped up gas prices by double from 3p per kwh obviously on the way to artificial equalisation.Unless he’s trying to say that ‘wholesale prices’ for gas supposedly doubled within one month.
So call it £5.20 per hour for electric v £1.20 per hour for gas.Thanks CF. It was the rumours of eventual price equalisation that got me thinking seriously about all electric.
Either option will be as unaffordable as each other.
If he hits biomass woodchip used for solid fuel boilers when power stations can use the stuff as a so called ‘renewable’ that’ll be the absolute proof it’s an electric captive market scam.
But I’d still preferr all electric to a rip off useless piece of junk anything but ‘heat’ pump.At least it would do the job …at a price.
Probably oil filled plug in radiators are a practical option in that case and use the money saved on the rip off heat pump installation cost to run them.