Energy Efficient Boilers

small changes to home and appliances can lower costs

November 18, 2009 - British Gas

Conversations about central heating aren’t exactly inspiring. Nobody likes to think about their bills either, except to wish for them to disappear. Yet heating your home is something we all have to do in one way or another and unfortunately we have to pay for it.

However, there are a few small changes that you can make to your home and appliances that will keep the heat in and the bills down. You’ll even be helping the environment too.

Most of us use boilers to heat our home. Thanks to the combi-boiler, gone are the days when you needed a large space, separate to your boiler, for the hot water tank. Not only do combination boilers save you space, they also save you money.

Combi-boilers only heat up the water when you need it. This mean that you will save on your energy bills because you won’t have the heating on all the time just so that you can have a hot shower in the morning and you will be using less power so you’ll reduce your carbon footprint.

You can also make the switch to energy-efficient boilers, known as condensers. These use the gases that would normally escape from the flue to condense the water vapour in the tank back into water, thus saving power and reducing heat loss.

These boilers could save you around £170 a year and if you buy one from British Gas now you could save £852. This saving includes £400 off a new boiler, free home care for one year worth £204 and free radiator heating and controls installation worth £248.

The free controls installation offers further savings potential. By having full control over the heating in your house, using timers and individual thermostats on each radiator, you can chop another £100 off your annual heating bills.

If everyone in the UK installed a new energy-efficient combi-boiler we would save 13 million tonnes of CO2 and enough energy to heat 3.4 million homes for a year.

Finally, you could think about calling an engineer to assess your home for energy saving feasibility.

This article has been provided by, British Gas, which offers a home maintenance service where all engineers adhere to strict codes of gas safety, in accordance with the Gas Safe Register, as explained on their site. They can offer help with the installation, maintenance and general servicing of boilers.

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