"Owain" wrote in message
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"Mungo "two sheds" Toadfoot" wrote
| Does anyone know if it's cheaper to heat the whole house
| (3 bedroom semi) with the gfch than it is to heat one
| room with a 2Kw electric heater and another with a
| three-burner gas fire on full chuff?
| I know there are a lot of variables - it's a seperate
| boiler, not a combi, for example, but a rough idea
| would settle an argument with SWMBO

Gas fires are usually inefficient compared to boilers.
Electric heaters are 100% efficient but electricity costs twice or three
times as much as gas.

More like 4 times.




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