£5k eh? What will you spend yours on. Wine, women or song?
As things stand now it won't be cheaper, assuming you are on the gas mains, and it certainly won't be cheaper if you have existing heating based on pumping water round radiators.
kW for kW the price of gas is quite a lot lower than electricity, even at the record high.
It will not always be so, but while we generate electricity from gas, and that state of the art is about 50% efficient, and that will continue a while yet, expect the two sets of prices to rise in a similar ratio.
If your house has no heating, insulate it. If you are fitting a complete heating system you might wish to size rads and bury pipes in the floor ready to suit the lukewarm temperatures that a heat pump at high COP produces. But if you already have the smaller rads that assume water at 50-60C from a boiler, then to use a heatpump they would need to be changed.
If however you heat by lugging calor gas bottles or having oil delivered, then it may well be worth looking at properly right now, but I fear there are not that many folk skilled in the art out there, and a few snake oil men.
Mike.
As things stand now it won't be cheaper, assuming you are on the gas mains, and it certainly won't be cheaper if you have existing heating based on pumping water round radiators.
kW for kW the price of gas is quite a lot lower than electricity, even at the record high.
It will not always be so, but while we generate electricity from gas, and that state of the art is about 50% efficient, and that will continue a while yet, expect the two sets of prices to rise in a similar ratio.
If your house has no heating, insulate it. If you are fitting a complete heating system you might wish to size rads and bury pipes in the floor ready to suit the lukewarm temperatures that a heat pump at high COP produces. But if you already have the smaller rads that assume water at 50-60C from a boiler, then to use a heatpump they would need to be changed.
If however you heat by lugging calor gas bottles or having oil delivered, then it may well be worth looking at properly right now, but I fear there are not that many folk skilled in the art out there, and a few snake oil men.
Mike.
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