Updating home heating

tberry6686

Been thinking about updating our home heating system. Currently using storage heaters but they are over 20 years old (may be 30) and are starting to have problems.

The options are
1. Replace the storage heaters with new ones.
2. Gas central heating. 3 quotes obtained already, cheapest is £9500 with surface pipework, £12000 with pipework under floors.
3. Air to air heat pump with AC.

Any advice ?

muckybutt

Options:

1) Night storage heaters - + efficent as you get all the heat, - expensive to run.
2) Gas ch - at those kind of prices you have quoted there I would look at pellet boilers as a serious alternative. A variety of makes and models are now availble and if you get them installed by an accredited mcs installer you should be able to get the grant for them.
3) Unless your house is ultra well insulated then I would steer well clear of these, we had an air to water ashp a few years ago and it was theeee worst mistake, we moaned about thr running cost...astronomical ! and the neighbours moaned about the noise of it.
4) Another option would be a multi fuel stove or wood burner ?

Cardew

That seems very expensive for gas CH.

Presumably you haven't gas in the house? and that includes the cost of connection to gas main?

tberry6686

No gas or pipe work/radiators in the house hence the high price.

Due to the location and type of house we can't put in pellet boilers or wood burners etc so we really only seem to have these three options.

I've pretty much decided against gas CH because with our usage of heating the payback time would be well over 10 years.