I currently have a gas fired combi providing hot water and central heating for my first floor, 6 room Georgian tenament flat.
The current boiler is noisy and large.
We've been offered a new electric boiler.
My questions:
Will the electric boiler be quieter?
What is cheaper - gas or electricity?
What is the more environmentally friendly option?
2007-01-06 02:47:43 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Hello =)
Since you didn't specify where you live....I'm just gonna take a stab at a guess, from your colloquialisms, and say that it's the UK.....
I would think that as a long-term investment, electric will be the better choice, but in the immediate future, it will be more expensive to use than the gas. The UK seems (although they wobble a bit from time to time) to be committed to producing cheap, environmentally friendly electricity in the future, which should make the electric the environmentally best choice as well, but again, for the immediate future, the gas is probably cleaner.
Namaste,
--Tom
2007-01-06 02:52:45 · answer #1 · answered by glassnegman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looked into this last year. It would depend on how your electricity is generated as to whether it is a cleaner way to heat your house. If we could use more wind, wave or solar to generate electricity this would be a cleaner, simpler way. Solar water heating panels are the most effective at the moment but only heat water and then in the summer, you would need an additional method of heating water in the winter. Combi boilers are the most effecient in the fact that they only heat the water you need rather than tankful of water! Mains gas is also much cleaner than oil.
2016-05-22 22:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound like a large property with large rooms to heat, possibly a 100,000 Btu boiler is required?? The electrical equivalent would be about 30Kw which would require a new 3 phase supply to be brought in. This might prove a hurdle and cost quite a bit. Personally I would stick with gas, but replace with a condensing boiler.
2007-01-06 04:13:59 · answer #3 · answered by jayktee96 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gas is the cheaper option, but electric is quieter, you will find that you have hot water all the time with gas, where electric tends to run out after a bath has been run.
2007-01-06 02:52:42 · answer #4 · answered by MIKE C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electric is quieter and more environmentally friendly, but gas is the cheaper option.
My boyfriend and his dad are both heating engineers so i asked them for this answer.
2007-01-06 02:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by jenna p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋