Which would you use- Gas fire or Central Heating

Magentasue

Point taken, moonrakerz, but OP posted on Old Style board and I was just summarising what the majority seem to say over here. There probably isn't a definitive answer because there are so many variables from the efficiency of the fire and boiler dowb to the number of times you're opening the door of your heated room and the temperature of adjoining unheated spaces.

Anecdotally, my mother paid as much to heat her house, often using the gas fire instead of the CH, as I did to heat my house by CH. Mine was twice the size of hers and had three times as many people using the hot water!

Pssst

It really depends on circumstances..

I mean if you live in a modern home which has a lowish volume,is well insulated and has a modern heating system,i'd tend to run the heating.

If OTOH i lived in a huge drafy victorian semi i might tend to heat selected rooms eg gas fire in lounge,maybe quilts on the bed.

pennineman

In winter, and we class now as winter, our central heating will click on at 6 a.m and off again at 10 p.m. Of course it's not actually on all of that time as the boiler water thermostat will knock it off as necessary; the house thermostat will knock it off when the set temperature is reached; the room radiator thermostats will knock individual rads off. And, when we go out we'll knock the heating off by turning the house stat down.

But we also use gas fires in our lounge and in our dining room / study / library.

The lounge fire vents into an open chimney, the dining room stove is a closed system which vents into the chimney.

Up here in the Pennines it's not so much low temperatures outside that demand more heating, it's the high winds which whip the heat away from the house like it has no walls - as yesterday.

Roof is well insulated; rough stone walls cannot be and are not.

irishwexford

When I had my gas fire installed the engineer said it would cost about 1p per day to run it but that was fourteen years ago. I have replaced it since and use this instead of heating. We do not have a chimney our fire is a balanced flue. I do find it very cheap to run despite having an energy efficient boiler also its so cosy.

Cardew

irishwexford wrote: »

When I had my gas fire installed the engineer said it would cost about 1p per day to run it but that was fourteen years ago. I have replaced it since and use this instead of heating.

I take it you meant to say £1 a day?

Even 14 years ago gas cost well over 1p for a kWh.

trixie73

defo the CH for me. my house is 7yr old so heats up very quickly with CH , and is fairly cheap to run compaired to using the GF alone. just got my quarterly bill.... £27

moonrakerz

trixie73 wrote: »

just got my quarterly bill.... £27

Do you have the 5 Watt boiler or the big 7.5 Watt one !