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James50

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Pincher

It looks like £700 on gas a year. If you can save 20%, that is about £130 a year, since standing charge stays the same.


Worth the money and hassle?


Eventually you will have to renovate the house, so do it then.

MeterMan

Power showers are electric, they are usually rated around the 9kw range. A 15minute shower would cost you roughly 25p

oldskoo1

If you do save £130 a year which is pushing it, you won't see your money back for nearly £20 years. By which time I'm sure you will have another source of heating again.

Hang onto it for as long as possible then maybe in 5 or 10 years and it's giving you hassle see what is on offer.

HappyMJ

James50 wrote: »

If I save £130 a year and the difference in the £250 a year I pay for a maintenance contract between warm air and a combi boiler, or would I still be paying £250 a year? even if I spent £5000 I would still make more than the £120 odd that my £5000 in the bank is making in interest.

Also I may be selling and downsizing, I tried to sell my house before but everyone who came to view all said they didn't like the warm air heating.

2 years and never an offer.

You will still need a maintenance contract if you are not willing to take the risk of failure on. Although with just the one boiler to cover and being new it will be cheaper.

Your house may be overpriced. Any house will sell at the right price even one with no heating whatsoever. I personally like warm air heating and prefer it over a wet central heating system. I like the instant heat. Wet systems take a little while to heat the pipes, then radiators, then the room. I like that they take up less wall space and you can have larger windows. I wouldn't ever change anything major such as that if you are selling.

Robwiz

My first house had gas warm air heating. I've lived in two houses since with gas central heating to radiators, both of which were retrofitted after the house was built (our current house originally had warm air).

The heating to rads has been nothing but trouble for a variety of reasons, mostly because both installations were compromised to make it easy for the installer. We look back fondly on our simple, reliable gas warm air heating. In your situation, I definitely wouldn't swap to a combi with rads. Better the devil you know, etc.

I'd look into a modern warm air boiler replacement – the latest models must use piezo electric ignition which would save your pilot usage.

teabelly

They're still going and offer modern upgrades:

http://www.johnsonandstarley.co.uk/warm-air/overview.asp

I'd see if there are any grants or scrappage offers to reduce the cost. Or whether they do any retro fit electronic ignition systems to older boilers.