Central Heating

Heating and hot water dilemma

Anonymous user 06/05/2025 - 8.35 AM

Hi, I live in a grade 2 listed 4 bed house with no gas to the property. It currently has old storage heaters downstairs, electric panel heaters upstairs and an old hot water tank in the en-suite. My electricity bill is £240 a month/ £2,880 a year and in the winter the house is so cold we can only use the kitchen and light the wood burner in the lounge if we want to go in there. I would like some advice as to whether I should replace the storage heaters with high heat retention ones and replace the hot water tank with one that will fit into the existing space which isn’t that big or look at installing gas and gas central heating. I know gas central heating is being discouraged but I was unsuccessful at getting permissions for PV on my roof and a heat pump wasn’t recommended either because the house has solid walls, is relatively big and has no loft as the bedrooms are in the roof. I would like to have a warmer house in winter, be able to use more rooms in winter and ideally reduce my bills a bit too. I would appreciate any advice.

Bradley

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Stevenage

So there’s a lot there so I’ll try to keep it simple. As things stand gas is still cheaper than electricity in terms of heating and hot water. I’m assuming you couldn’t get a heat pump due to bad insulation and it being a listed property? Bad insulation means your energy costs are going to be higher regardless. However yea gas would be cheaper than how your set up and would also get your house warmer if you keep the heating on that is. Ideally heat pumps would be the way forward for you since the government grant is still accessible. In regards to changing to gas they may still reject that, and you would still have quite a bit of an upfront cost due to putting in new radiators everywhere and the pipework, would seem silly to do that then have to do it again later for a heat pump if your required to do so. However you could upsize everything on a gas installation so that when you put a heat pump in everything is correctly sized for it and therefore your not re doing all the pipework. Ether way installation cost will be rather high but will bring down your energy prices.

Answered8 May 2025

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Anonymous user

I’m happy to visit your property and investigate what your options are There’s always a way

Answered16 May 2025

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