EPC advice

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Spinybif said:

As I understand it gas boilers cannot be used for new install after 2025. You cannot buy a gas boiler even as a replacement after 2035.

Whatever applies to gas boilers will also apply to gas heaters. It is the use of gas fullstop which they are trying to stop.  However, they will need to change the EPC rules so that electic is not heavily penalised if they want to improve EPCs *and* phase out gas.

You are currently in the situation car buyers were in a few years ago, encouraged to buy diesel for efficiency and then suddenly the rules change and they are undesirable.

Hence why I suggested doing as little as possible until absolutely necessary and then only in consultation with your own chosen EPC assessor.

macman

Spinybif said:

As I understand it gas boilers cannot be used for new install after 2025. You cannot buy a gas boiler even as a replacement after 2035.

Could you post your source for that please?

EssexHebridean

Modern high heat retention storage heaters are being marked favourably by a fair few assessors it seems - we have just one fitted and it gave us a “good” rating on heating control, probably making the difference between us ending up as an E, and the low D we actually have.  It’s a myth that storage heaters - used properly - are a vastly expensive way to heat, too. Even our most expensive winter month bill this year has only been in the region of £160 for electric (we cook using gas, but everything else is electric) and from what others in similar sized homes have said we’d struggle to do much better with GCH. 

user1977

macman said:

Spinybif said:

As I understand it gas boilers cannot be used for new install after 2025. You cannot buy a gas boiler even as a replacement after 2035.

Could you post your source for that please?

From a quick look I can't see anything beyond a government ambition to phase out buying new boilers from 2035:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/heat-and-buildings-strategy/heat-and-building-strategy-accessible-webpage

with talk already about that being likely to be postponed. Certainly nothing set in stone yet.

ckone

There is another update coming shortly, but currently heat pumps don't fare so well on EPCs. Also the Grid has a massive project starting to upgrade to allow for extra generation and load so I don't see this being an issue moving forwards. EPCs mainly consider cost of operating each type of system.