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The Cost of Ditching Gas Boilers.

Ministers want us to go green, but for homeowners, the sums seldom add up | Daily Mail Online

“My brother in law installed a ground source heat pump at a cost of 35,000. The radiators in the house are not big enough to provide enough energy from the system to keep the house warm in winter. So he has three open fires burning logs. And there is the complete madness of this Government's pathetic attempt to make us go green. Ps don't have a smart meter fitted.”

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0 Simon Barker over 4 years ago

Open fires are a hopelessly inefficient way to use firewood. Most of the heat goes up the chimney, and the draw in the chimney sucks cold air into the house behind it.
Why not upgrade the radiators with bigger ones? There are plenty of cowboy installs of heat pumps that cost the homeowner a fortune to run. But that doesn't mean that heat pumps can't work.
But the way electricity and gas prices are at the moment, even a well-installed heat pump will cost more to run than a gas boiler.
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0 Simon Barker over 4 years ago

Open fires are a hopelessly inefficient way to use firewood. Most of the heat goes up the chimney, and the draw in the chimney sucks cold air into the house behind it.
Why not upgrade the radiators with bigger ones? There are plenty of cowboy installs of heat pumps that cost the homeowner a fortune to run. But that doesn't mean that heat pumps can't work.
But the way electricity and gas prices are at the moment, even a well-installed heat pump will cost more to run than a gas boiler.
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