Frank Lee Speke-King wrote:
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?

Yep. Taking meter readings (mine's a cubic metres one and reads to the
third decimal place) my ancient Glowworm boiler uses 0.44 cu.m per day
just on the pilot light.

That's nearly 5kWh per day, which suggest the pilot flame is producing
200W. I suppose it will be helping to keep the (enormous) heat
exchanger warm for the next time you need hot water or heating.

Some interesting stats at:
http://www.homeenergy.org/archive/he...97/970103.html

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