Gas or Electric Central Heating?

dfgmavis

I've just bought a 2 bed 1950's ex-council flat in N16, London. It doesn't have any central heating in it at all & I'm not sure whether to go for gas or electric heating?

Currently there is only an electric supply, however there is a gas pipe coming in to the kitchen & British Gas have said they can reconnect it and give me a meter free of charge.

I've no bills to go on to be able to compare units, nor do I have any idea as to how much I will be using as previously I lived in a much bigger victorian conversion, with gas heating and a gas fireplace so I assume this will cost a lot less to heat.

At the moment its just me in my flat & I work from home, but that could change if I was to get a full time job in an office.

I'm going to get a new electrical ring main & consumer unit put in anyway because there is currently only one single socket in each room, so if I went for electrical heating I could get that done at the same time. The cost would then be the cost of heaters as they've said the cost to install would be negligible given they were putting in the new sockets anyway.

But everyone tells me that gas central heating is much cheaper on the bills.

Any advice anyone can offer would be much appreciated!

Thank you in advance,

Mavis

macman

Gas 3-4p per kWh, electricity 10p+ per kWh. It's not rocket science.
Obviously the investment in installing gas CH and a bolier is much higher, but it'll be cheaper to run and put value on the property when you come to sell it.
E7 electric heating might work for you if you are in occupation during the day, but if you have the option of a gas supply then I'd go for that every time.
Non E7 electric heating will be extremely expensive.