Would you purchase a house with warm air heating?

TanDiy

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warm air all the way. One of the reasons I now have an aircon for heating.

Thank you for the info - is the aircon unit one of the new systems that extracts heat from the external air? We started looking at these but found it all rather technical !

HappyMJ

TanDiy wrote: »

Thank you for the info - is the aircon unit one of the new systems that extracts heat from the external air? We started looking at these but found it all rather technical !

Don't look at the technical bits then...They quote figures that it should run at. The colder it is outside the less efficiently it runs but it doesn't matter it'll still work quite well.

I like warm air central heating myself. Much quicker to heat up than a wet system that has to heat the water first.

I would never consider a combi anyway. I don't like them. Broken boiler = no hot water. At least with a conventional boiler if the boiler breaks you just turn the immersion heater on and you still have hot water and you just get the electric heaters out and turn them on for heat. Never need to have an emergency call out.

VfM4meplse

Warm air heating makes a lovely cosy home - but you have to watch for the spiders climbing in through the vents .

PaulF81

Only if you gave me copies of an eleccy bill for the previous 3 years.

TanDiy

I am not sure it uses much more electric than a wet system but I may be wrong. I have discovered from somebody with a wet boiler and radiators that their gas usage is much the same as ours, so it does not sound too inefficient.

Anyway, thank you to everybody who posted information - it really was most helpful in helping us to decide to keep the existing warm air system. Thanks again.

simongregson

Most people who ahve the systems love them (we do too!)

Most people who don't are wary but if you look at the comments above and a lot of the comments are based on complete misconceptions, like thinking they use electricity for the heating.

The truth is that they are both more reliable and for a lot of people more convenient than radiators. You can buy new ones even. In the US, most homes use this method for heating as the same ducts can be used for air conditioning, but people prefer what they already know.

Robert2009

Another vote for warm air heating by gas.

And you don't have to bother about leaking radiators, bleeding radiators and powerflushing them.

McKneff

We have warm air heating. (Gas)
Is there such a thing as warm air heating (electric)

Replaced the boiler about 10 years ago and we love it.
Virtually instant heat.

unclebulgaria

There's nothing wrong with warm air so long as the actual appliance is serviced regularly and in great detail, warm air units heat exchangers can crack and allow the products of combustion out a little easier than normal standard boilers. They are faster to heat a house and have less to go wrong compared to a wet central heating system. Only thing is they're very ugly big things that need an area put to one side for them. If you replace them you have an extensive amount of piping to put in and can be left with the ducting unless you are prepared to remove them. Main rule with warm air is maintenance and how well it was carried out and how regularly.

tommaka89

Hi im a Gas safe engineer and we come across many warm air heating systems and many customers love them, as long as they are serviced regular they are perfectly safe, any personally we think they are just as efficient at a combi boiler. Johnson & Starley now make many different types of warm air heaters and some new more efficient models are available. Plus if you replaced your own warm air heater with a newer model all the work would be done in a day and their would be very little mess. whereas if you fitted radiators in your house with warm air they would be lots of mess for a few days and you would loose alot of your wall space.