Electric boiler

wittynamegoeshere

Also, if you do go down the electric route then avoid a hot water tank altogether, an instant hot water heater would be much more efficient, providing your mains power fuse supply take it (probably 100A needed if you're also heating rooms with electric).

The same applies to gas too, a combi boiler with on-demand water heating will almost always use less energy than a tank.

The logic is different if you have other power sources, e.g. solar electric or water heating.  But if you're buying energy then a hot water tank usually doesn't make sense.

jimrobbo2

Haha I wish I was a landlord and could afford not to pay the running costs

jimrobbo2

matelodave said:

TBH most people who know what they are doing would avoid buying or renting a place with an electric boiler as the the cost of using them is only outweighed by actually burning £50 notes in a fireplace.

The only reason that they have their place as you put it, is because landlords and some developers love them.

They are cheap to buy and install, especially in a tiny flat conversion as they dont take up much space and they dont need a flue.  In general landlords or developers dont have to pay the heating bills for the places where they've installed them. so the running costs are irrelevant.

By the time someone has bought or rented a place with one and got their first ginormous leccy bill it's too late to back out.

My heatpump gets through about 4500kwh of leccy a year, last year it cost around £550 (an electric boiler would have been arounf £1650 gas would have been £400), this year with the increases its gone up to £950 (£2850 with an electric boiler, gas around £675) ) and I dread to think what it will be next year.

I see, what about off setting with solar during the day. But I imagine looking at that it won't even get close? 

I can't get a grant for a heatpump and I'm not paying for something that might not be worth it in the long term whe  hydrogen becomes cheap.