Combi vs. Conventional Boiler: usage costs.

Flimber

Since having a W.B. 24i Junior fitted in August our gas usage has approximately doubled. Previously we had a 15-year-old Chaffoteuax (sp ?) which was on it's last legs. Gas costs for our two bed terraced are currently about £2/day. We're not talking a Summer/Winter comparison either. Last Winter the gas usage was just over £1/day with the old boiler. We still have an old token meter in the cellar (inspected earlier this year, so hopefully not dodgy).

Is this normal ?

Thanks,
Mike.

alanobrien

Flimber wrote:

Since having a W.B. 24i Junior fitted in August our gas usage has approximately doubled. Previously we had a 15-year-old Chaffoteuax (sp ?) which was on it's last legs. Gas costs for our two bed terraced are currently about £2/day. We're not talking a Summer/Winter comparison either. Last Winter the gas usage was just over £1/day with the old boiler. We still have an old token meter in the cellar (inspected earlier this year, so hopefully not dodgy).

Is this normal ?

Thanks,
Mike.

Approx £60 a month in gas for a 2 bed terrace seems ridiculously high unless your growing tropical plants indoors!

My bill is currently running at about 2/3 of that for a 4 bed detached using a system boiler and HW tank.

Your boiler is a combi so should theoretically at least be cheaper to run. I would be inclined to get someone to look at it pronto.

espresso

Presumably it was fitted by a fully trained Corgi registered plumber, so it must be working correctly, must it not it :rolleyes:

My usage is comparable to alanobrien's in a similar house and system to his!


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Flimber

alanobrien wrote:

Approx £60 a month in gas for a 2 bed terrace seems ridiculously high unless your growing tropical plants indoors!

My bill is currently running at about 2/3 of that for a 4 bed detached using a system boiler and HW tank.

Your boiler is a combi so should theoretically at least be cheaper to run. I would be inclined to get someone to look at it pronto.

Cheers. I will do. Although "pronto" and Christmas Week do not compute well together.

Mike.

Flimber

espresso wrote:

Presumably it was fitted by a fully trained Corgi registered plumber, so it must be working correctly, must it not ? :rolleyes:

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Yep ! It was. A Worcester Bosch proper engineer even had his hands on it. I assumed it was all tickety boo.

But whom should I be contacting ? The local installer or Worcester Bosch ?

Mike.

alanobrien

Flimber wrote:

Cheers. I will do. Although "pronto" and Christmas Week do not compute well together.

Mike.

Indeedy, on reflection best to avoid the undoubted additional xmas call out cost and hang on until Jan