Gas or Electric Heating ??

sparkle20

Hiya,

I have a 2 bedroom flat and looking for a new heating system to be installed.

I have gas piping into the flat, but as it was installed over 12 months ago the service is now "dead". The gas company are saying it needs reconnected, which is classed as a new gas service so will cost £600??? I think this is appauling! Is there any way I can get around paying so much to do this? As I will need to pay for the central heating system to be installed on top of this.

Is it worth putting an electric system in instead? Not sure how much these cost to install or maintain.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide on my dilemma....

:j

Gemma

HappyMJ

Electric heating will cost as much as you want it to. From £10 upwards... For a small flat the difference between electric and gas heating isn't that much. The warmer you have it and the longer you have it on then the more you save. If you were at work most of the time and only had heating for a few hours each evening in the winter then you wouldn't save anything by having gas heating, it's annual servicing and it's relatively short lifespan of the components in the system will outweigh the higher costs of electricity on a really good electricity tariff.

If you are the kind of person you can't stand anything lower than 21 and are home all day and all evening then go for the gas.

If you are home all day but go out in the evening and/or go to bed early then E7 heating is cheaper.