Save Money
Everyone wants to save on their gas bills Here are a few methods to help:
Setting the timer on your heating system is the main way. For example you may not require hot water and heating to run at the same time.
•Bleed radiators (especially if they are hot at the bottom and cold at the top).
•Room thermostats are very sensitive and by reducing the setting by just 1°C can save up to 10% on your fuel bill.
•Use an appropriate draught excluder around doors, windows, letterboxes and keyholes. Do not, however, block or seal any air vents, which ensure that the gas appliances operate safely.
•Ensure that curtains are not draped over radiators or thermostats.
•The installation of any of the following controls:
Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRVs)
Programmable room thermostats
Room Thermostats
Cylinder thermostats
Programmers
Zone valves
Pipe lagging.
•Clean Systems work more efficiently and economically. Your heating system should also contain a system protector/inhibitor, however this does not protect it for life, for maximum protection it should be changed at least every five years.
We can also power flush and de-scale your boilers, radiators and systems.
•Consider changing your boiler to one of the new Condensing type boilers.
These boilers can pay for themselves sooner than you think.
•Consider solar panels.
Even if you have a Combination boiler. Solar panels can heat the water prior to it reaching the boiler, this saving gas as the Combination boiler only heats the water if it is required, (sometimes not at all).
Condensing Boilers
These boilers increase efficiency by recovering the heat that is normally wasted in the hot flue gases given off by a conventional boiler. The flue gas from a conventional boiler will be at a temperature of about 150 degrees Centigrade, and sometimes much more than this, but a condensing boiler will reclaim most of this heat, and give off flue gases at about 50 degrees Centigrade. Around 20% of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions come from domestic heating systems.
Depending on the efficiency of your old boiler, a replacement condensing boiler will reduce carbon dioxide emissions from your central heating system by 15 to 30%. As of April 2005, the Building Regulations require that all new boilers must have an efficiency rating of A or B, and at the moment only condensing boilers achieve this.
Installing only high-efficiency boilers will help the UK to achieve reductions in carbon emissions and so reduce the impact of climate change. If everyone in the UK had a condensing boiler our annual carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 17.5 million tonnes, and it would also result in a saving of £1.3 billion on energy bills every year.
Heating your home with a condensing boiler is cheaper than with a non-condensing model. The condensing boiler itself may cost a little more and is a little harder to install, but will use approximately 20% less fuel. This is a huge saving with soaring energy costs.
REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE ALWAYS WAYS TO SAVE ENERGY.
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