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Alistair Riddell

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, wrote:

I've worked out that the pilot light on my old Vaillant combi boiler
uses the equivalent of 60UKP of gas per year, does this sound right?
This means a new boiler would repay in 10 years on the cost of pilot
light gas alone.

based on 2.5p/kWh, this works out at about 275 watts of heat output on a
continuous basis. This is about an order of magnitude more than I would
have expected for a pilot light... i.e. it does not sound right IMO.

How did you arrive at the figure of GBP60 / year?

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