Gas Supply Removal Costs, Charges, Free

bristolleedsfan

As time goes on gas meters being made defunct will possibly be as common as night following day.

Here is absolute proof that cadent will remove gas supply for free as long as nobody asks cadent to do anything.

Astria

Fair enough, I can see that for new builds there will be no need to even install a gas main when electric is already provided to the property, you would just install a heat pump and be done. Heck, maybe you could even install GSHP and run it underneath the house - I've no idea if that is practical though. I've no intentions of having my gas supply removed however until forced to do so as HPs are still prohibitively expensive to install and offer little to no advantage to older properties.

ariarnia

Deleted_User said:

Astria said:

Fair enough, I can see that for new builds there will be no need to even install a gas main when electric is already provided to the property, you would just install a heat pump and be done. Heck, maybe you could even install GSHP and run it underneath the house - I've no idea if that is practical though. I've no intentions of having my gas supply removed however until forced to do so as HPs are still prohibitively expensive to install and offer little to no advantage to older properties.

I live in the West of Scotland where it's quite cold. A lot of new houses have solar and heat pumps fitted but very quickly after people moved in you saw one by one they got woodburners installed so I'm guessing they aren't keeping the house warm.

Another problem is that I THIINK (?) they need electricity to run, and the colder it is the more electric they need? If you have a power outage surely your heat pump goes down too?

We could be 100% self-reliant for heat with woodburners, but that's not going to work if everyone does it - not least because wood will get too expensive and source of free wood will dry up. In summer we have solar and we have so much excess that we can run electric showers/electric over-sink heaters. We **CAN** heat water on the woodburner in winter and put it into a pump action shower thingy - so doing away with gas would be doable. But I like the fallback of gas for when I can't be bothered or for days when it's too warm for a woodburner but we haven't had sun in ages.

But if they get personal wind turbines to a point where they're viable I think I could go off-grid completely with combination of woodburner, solar (with 7kw battery backup) and wind power for the deep, dark winter months.

theres a few heat pump people on the alternative fuel sub forum and from what i understand you really need to spend some time learning and adjusting your system for it to work well and it needs adjustments thru the year. so its not as simple as set a thermostat and ignore it and it takes a long time for a space to heat. so you can't feel cold now and just switch it on for a burst of heat in the next hour or so like you can with a stove or gas fire. but i think for those people who do spend the time they are quite positive about the results. so it might be more about how interested people are in learning how there heating works than how good the heating could be if you see what i mean?