Gas Meter Question

Phil_GT

hi all

hopefully a simple one for you

i have the gas meter below



please can any 1 advise how many times the red arrow on the dial should go round before the red dial digit moves up a digit.

also how fast would you expect the dial to turn when the only gas applicance using gas is a old baxi 552 boiler pilot light

currently take approx 1hr 45 to go one full cycle

stewie_griffin

Phil_GT wrote: »

please can any 1 advise how many times the red arrow on the dial should go round before the red dial digit moves up a digit.

10 times. 1 unit on your bill will be equal to 100 turns

Lgas

Phil_GT wrote: »

also how fast would you expect the dial to turn when the only gas applicance using gas is a old baxi 552 boiler pilot light

currently take approx 1hr 45 to go one full cycle

Sounds about right to me, without doing calculations. To give you a rough idea, a 6kw gas fire on full flame could take around 2 mins for the dial to make one revolution, modern condensing boilers around 40 secs. That's a very rough guide but gives you some idea

Phil_GT

Lgas wrote: »

Sounds about right to me, without doing calculations. To give you a rough idea, a 6kw gas fire on full flame could take around 2 mins for the dial to make one revolution, modern condensing boilers around 40 secs. That's a very rough guide but gives you some idea

thats the issue i have a baxi 552 back boiler....... guessing its as old as me but it fires up first time every time so dont wanna get rid.


lived with gran parents before and every 2-3 months their wall mounted combi went on the blink

Lgas

If your back boiler is still going strong i'd stick with it! It won't be as efficient as a condensing boiler but you'd have to weigh up the inital outlay of installing a new boiler vs. the savings you'd make. Much less to go wrong too. As long as there are parts still available (can't remember for that boiler off the top of my head) then there's no reason to replace it in my opinion. Just make sure it's serviced anually as it's an open flued boiler and has more potential to give off carbon monoxide if the flue becomes blocked etc.

gas4you

552 parts are still available. Keep it until it leaks.

Phil_GT

gas4you wrote: »

552 parts are still available. Keep it until it leaks.

will be keeping it until its fubar'd