Interesting discussion on domestic boilers

spark240

And no its not the woman of the house...

monquixote

I haven't watched the video, but from what I understand to hit emissions targets they will have to be phased out unless some inexpensive electrofuel is discovered. 

bertie

yes,  I thought the planned cessation of production was already "a thing"  

octatonic

How the fuck am I supposed to make an authentic Bibimbap once that happens?

VimFuego

I have all electric heating (dunno why the previous owner didn't have gas heating put in when he renovated, the village has gas). I dunno how much more than gas it is, but it is more. I am able to keep my elec bill down to £5 a day currently by making sure I only heat the rooms I use, though that is fairly simple with individual heaters in each room, it's a bit of a faff (for example, to use my music room I have to remember to put the heater on in there about 1/2 hour before I want to use it). 
If they are to phase out gas heating (which, as I understand it, is the case) then there will have to be some form of govt help similar to how gas gets a subsidy (I think I read that somewhere it does) else lower income people will really suffer. 

TTony

You people with your "mod cons" and mains gas supplies.

Pah.

Bet some of you have got mains sewerage too!

VimFuego

TTony said:

You people with your "mod cons" and mains gas supplies.

Pah.

Bet some of you have got mains sewerage too!

for years, most of our heating came from firewood, which I either harvested from the holding or got from one of the places I worked, so was "free" in that all it cost was my labour. One time we made a tank of oil last 18 months. It has come as somewhat of a shock that I now have to pay to heat the house!!!

ArchtopDave

TTony said:

You people with your "mod cons" and mains gas supplies.

Pah.

Bet some of you have got mains sewerage too!

Oi and my neighbours happily make contributions to our cess pits. Drains needs a bit of rodding from time to time, though there's an interesting problem in that nobody know where there all are.

spark240

The concerning bit was that the boiler manufacturers have got to sell X amount of Heat pump systems over the next few years or they get fined.. so get ready for the big push...

bertie

spark240 said:

The concerning bit was that the boiler manufacturers have got to sell X amount of Heat pump systems over the next few years or they get fined.. so get ready for the big push...

does that mean the Gvmnt will allow us to nick land for bigger gardens !!

Neilybob

I think the future is hydrogen gas boilers according to this article. 

https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18154950.worcester-bosch-reveals-new-eco-friendly-boiler/

spark240

bertie said:

spark240 said:

The concerning bit was that the boiler manufacturers have got to sell X amount of Heat pump systems over the next few years or they get fined.. so get ready for the big push...

does that mean the Gvmnt will allow us to nick land for bigger gardens !!

No cause they to flog you air source pumps !

spark240

Yes but they can't shove Hydrogen down the existing gas pipes...

Kittyfrisk

spark240 said:

Yes but they can't shove Hydrogen down the existing gas pipes...

Not pure hydrogen maybe, but... https://hydeploy.co.uk/about/news/first-uk-trial-of-hydrogen-blended-gas-hailed-a-success/

Greatape

There would, presumably, need to be much tighter controls on new installations. In our street of new builds, all properties were inspected post-installation and remediated because the flue in the roof was inadequately supported. Was told that the installations were all done by apprentices and that qualified fitters only touched the system to switch it on....

spark240

Greatape said:

There would, presumably, need to be much tighter controls on new installations. In our street of new builds, all properties were inspected post-installation and remediated because the flue in the roof was inadequately supported. Was told that the installations were all done by apprentices and that qualified fitters only touched the system to switch it on....

Sounds about right...prices are so tight on new builds its probably the only way to make them pay.

hollywoodrox

The money they are wasting on high speed trains, nuclear weapons , bogus  apps like track and trace etc ,could have put solar panels on every roof in the country and still be left with enough to sort out the NHS etc 

bertie

hollywoodrox said:

The money they are wasting on high speed trains, nuclear weapons , bogus  apps like track and trace etc ,could have put solar panels on every roof in the country and still be left with enough to sort out the NHS etc 

yeah but we've got £350m extra coming in so no worry's