I've gone Bio !

muckybutt

Well after 8 years of having my Charnwood Cove 2 I have had it disconnected and have gone Bio.

I have gone for one of the free boiler deals and have to say from the way it's gone so far I am well impressed and should have done it years ago.

We had a timber frame extension last year and running two stoves was killing us financially as well as the electric for the hot water so I inquired about one of the free boiler deals and went with Fusion Energy. They get the payments for seven years we get a 7 year warranty on parts and labour if it does go wrong, all we have to do is buy the pellets and get it serviced once a year.

We have had a Palazetti Thermoeasy 18Kw installed outside and a 300L thermal store installed instead of the old tank.

First load of pellets was free with the deal as well and as it currently stands it is using around 15Kg (£3) a day and it's on 24/7.

The electric was costing just shy of £700 a year for the hot water, logs for the heating around £900 a year and coal for the other stove another £500 a year and that was only running the CH for 4 hrs a day and HW for 4 hrs a day too.

So no brainer really - feels so much nicer here now .... getting up to a warm house and coming home from work to a warm house time will tell how it goes.

muckybutt

Just a quick update -
2 weeks on now since we had the boiler fitted and it is running like clockwork

Topping up with pellets on average once a day x 1 15Kg bag of pellets - cleaning out ash and giving it a fettle once a week.

The warmer weather really made a difference and only needed to be topped up every other day with heating only set at 17 deg for background heat.