Boiler not always firing

[gmartine]

If you're only spending £40 pa and as above you're not paying a standing charge who's providing your gas and what size of space/property do you heat and with what?

 

[itsfreezinghere]

It’s probably totally obsolete just looked up a posting on another site from 2014 and the boiler was 23 years old then. You’ve had your money’s worth out of it time to change it. It’s non condensing and nowhere near as efficient as a new boiler

Yes, it's totally knackered but I have no money and if a new boiler is 10% more efficient it will save me £4 pa but cost £2.5k, so I'll get my money back by 2650!

 

[ShaunCorbs]

I said I used £40 of gas in a year, not £50 a month.

Same principle applies it was an example

 

[itsfreezinghere]

If you're only spending £40 pa and as above you're not paying a standing charge who's providing your gas and what size of space/property do you heat and with what?

No, I am paying a standing charge, it's just that if I had an electric boiler I wouldn't have to pay a gas SC.
2 bed semi, with gas - but I barely heat it, just to 10C, it's all I can afford.

 

[itsfreezinghere]

Same principle applies it was an example

Yes, but with such low usage the standing charge and service costs make gas more expensive.

 

[itsfreezinghere]

Does anyone think it might be worth changing the capacitor?

I get my pension next year and might be able to afford a new boiler then. I can't get it to work at all today.

 

[ShaunCorbs]

Yes, but with such low usage the standing charge and service costs make gas more expensive.

Not really as you would still have a standing charge even with no gas usage

There are grants about for new boilers might be worth asking your gas supplier

 

[gmartine]

10C is no temperature at all and you risk getting hypothermia, in what part of the country do you live?

As above you may qualify for a new boiler grant.

 

[itsfreezinghere]

Not really as you would still have a standing charge even with no gas usage

Are you sure that's right? Can't I cancel my gas account and just have an electricity supply?

 

[gmartine]

You'd have to have gas meter removed if you don't want to pay SC.