What can a new Boiler give you? by Tom Key, Direct Heating Supplies

This is a guest post from Tom Key, the Online Marketing Coordinator at Direct Heating Supplies. Direct Heating Supplies are one of the UK's leading suppliers of plumbing and heating supplies.

What can a new Boiler give you?

What do you look for in a boiler? Reliability? Cost effectiveness? Durability? The good news is that a new boiler can give you all of these things and more.

An inefficient, old boiler can cause much frustration and can also cost you a lot of money to restore it to full working order.

It is highly recommended that you arrange for gas and oil boilers to be serviced on a regular basis to clarify that your boiler and corresponding heating system is working efficiently in the appropriate manner.

Having a heating engineer out to look at an older system every year can help you to ensure that your boiler is working to the highest levels of heating efficiency possible (which can contribute towards a significant financial saving) and can help you to identify and resolve any potential issues before they get out of hand.

Unfortunately there are some times when you have to face the inevitable and acknowledge that to get the best levels of heating performance you may have to move to a new boiler that can offer a massive improvement in performance.

Older boilers generally offer a less efficient performance, purely due to the improvements in technology within the heating industry.  For example, the condensing technology that operates within a modern combi boiler makes it a lot easier to recapture heat energy that is produced by the boiler but would otherwise be lost via the flue along with waste gases and condensate.

This new development means that almost all new gas Combination boilers are SEDBUK A-rated, the highest possible efficiency rating available in the UK. Around £300 a year could be saved if you made the move from an older non-condensing G-rated Combi Boiler to a new and improved condensing combi boiler. That’s an efficiency saving of around 30% - a huge improvement.

Finding a spare heating part for an older boiler becomes much trickier over time as boiler ranges become discontinued and new boilers and parts are released. New boilers need less maintenance any way but if they do the parts are always readily available

For the most part new combi boilers last upwards of 10 years, so you will soon recoup the majority of money that you have spent on a new boiler system. New boilers tend to be covered by fairly extensive boiler warranty periods too, so you have added peace of mind that if anything goes wrong with your system you are in a good position to have it sorted out.

Although an expensive purchase, the benefits of a new boiler can be cost effective and can also be well worth it in terms of relieving unwanted stress!

About this article: This article was written by Tom Key, Online Marketing Coordinator at Direct Heating Supplies for use on the Gas Central Heating Blog.

LINKS:

·         New combi boilers - http://www.directheatingsupplies.co.uk/shop/cid_1956/Gas-Combi-Boilers.aspx

·         Direct Heating Supplies - http://www.directheatingsupplies.co.uk/