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If you are re doing everything I’d fit the best heating and hot water system I could; it’s the last one you’ll buy because we’ll all be on heat pumps in space year 2040
Indeed. Gas boilers were due to be banned (for new builds) from 2023 but that seems to have slipped with no update on when it has moved to.
There's a push (but just a push) from the IEA that no new fossil fuel boilers should be sold globally from 2025 onwards.
Obviously replacing existing boilers in homes should get some protection but it could easily become expensive quickly a few years down the line.
More info here: https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/boilers/uk-gas-boiler-ban
A ground source heat pump would be interesting to fit in our first floor flat.
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2025 is pie in the sky stuff, thats for sure. Manufacturers currently are putting big money into hydrogen/methane mixes right now Baxi and Worcester which will eventually become hydrogen boilers I imagine. Theres no way that gas will be done by then (2040), considering there about 30/40 million boilers in the UK and we change about 1 million a year. Ground and Air is gonna have to come a long way before people start buying into it never mind electrical boilers.
konastab01
It’s it’s fifteen or so years old replace it. Unless it’s 30 years old in which case it will last forever ;)
Worth looking at its location, output and what it’s doing, all might be stupid / wrong like a 15kw combi in your garage that’s doing hot water in an area with shit water pressure for a six bedroom house and puts its flue through the back wall at eye height.
If you are re doing everything I’d fit the best heating and hot water system I could; it’s the last one you’ll buy because we’ll all be on heat pumps in space year 2040