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Default Gas Boiler Efficiency and Hot Returns

YAPH wrote:
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:31:26 +0000, dmc wrote:

Seems these things sell for about 700 quid which seems ridiculous - no
way can it be worth anything like that. 700 quid gets you a lot of gas
as well...


wot I said :-)

In article ,
YAPH wrote:
But the value of the
return on money & materials is debatable.



I'm inclined to the same view on swapping the boiler for a condenser.

How much better *would* a condenser be, given too hot returns?
Certainly nowhere near the "book" figure.

The hot water isn't the issue - the tank's less than a year old, and
it's quite noticeable that the boiler no longer cycles when heating the
water. And the summer bills tend to point to heating being the lion's
share of the fuel.

Andy