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Vista writes:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
You still didn't reply to my question about where the expense
arises in the current system, maintenance, servicing or fuel.

The boiler is serviced once a year - normal cost for new or old boiler,
I presume.

To be honest, room sealed boilers don't generally need servicing
every year. Open flued boilers most certainly do.

Annual spend on gas about 800 quid
breakdowns - non-yet, but the system is very old and will *need* to be
replaced sometime soon I imagine.

I'm still having trouble working out _why_ you want to do
anything to this system now. The expenditure would appear
to be mainly on fuel. It may well be that for very much
less outlay, you could improve the insulation in the house
and save significantly more than you would save on gas with
a new boiler. You might achieve payback in a year or two,
whereas it's more likely to be 10 years payback on the
quotes you have.

So far nobody has mentioned the electricity only route, and whether that
might be viable.

In fuel terms, it's pretty well always very much more
expensive, which would seem to defeat what you're trying
to do.

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Andrew Gabriel
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