Electric combi boiler for underfloor heating and rads - off the grid

[serfer]

Hmm... Yup. When i mention amptec above i meant boiler. Sorry! Electric flow boiler plus direct unvented cylinder costs around £1000 inc vat.
Electric amptec electromax combi has internal storage of 150 litres for example weighs in at around £1500...

so i guess i go with the separate boiler and cylinder. A bigger cylinder probably best.

 

[serfer]

Air to water heat pump costs around £10,000. Just cant afford it

 

[SimonG]

There are electric combination boilers which 'combine' an amptec, or similar electric boiler, and an unvented cylinder. Then there are electric combi boilers along the same lines as a gas combi, an elnur gabarron springs to mind. Looks like a gas combi and has a small hot water store.

 

[dancinplumba]

16p kWh for LPG, 10k for air to water ????? Where you live central London ?

 

[serfer]

Doh!> > 16p per unit of calor gas, keep up! LPG is 6 or 7p sure but I cant fit the tank anywhere. I've had loads of teams come to the cottage and 16kw high temp daikin or panasonic or mitsubishi is going to cost just under 10k inc vat. If you can do it cheaper, lets talk!

Simon! THANKS AGAIN! There seem to be some of us here who don't know too much about the electric side of things -or maybe i use the wrong terms or jargon gets in the way... whatever.

Still... I'm not sure whether to get the store and boiler together in one unit (what i call electric combi) - or go for a boiler and direct cylinder as separates.

3 beds, 2 baths, 2 kids under 10... underfloor heating of 75sqm, 4 large area rads and 2 little towel rads. i feel we almost have a resolution... ... ...!

 

[dancinplumba]

Doh !!!! Silly me......am sure Calor gas is LPG is it not ?

 

[serfer]

maybe lpg is calor... but i cannot fit a huge lpg tank on the property. i can dump a few47kg calorbottles outside = but then i pay about 16p a unit, which is just plain daft but there you go.

 

[dancinplumba]

Nope, Calor is LPG. Learn summat new every day

 

[markfxy]

Air source heat pump will be way cheaper to run and if you get an installer that's MCS registered you'l get the RHI payments reducing the payback considerably against an electric boiler

 

[rpm]

Could be being daft but .....

Can you bury a gas tank like you can an oil tank?

 

[dancinplumba]

Yes you can

 

[dancinplumba]

Can you bury an oil tank ?

 

[IDCHAPPY]

God, this thread twisted my melon man :lol:

 

[rpm]

Not my area dancin but didn`t I see somewhere in another post that you can?

 

[SimonG]

Yes you can bury an oil tank.

 

[serfer]

If you have the space you CAN for sure bury LPG or oil tanks. I have no space. Trust me i checked every possible approach.

Msc and and RHI and greendeal are brilliant and totally the future. Makes brilliant financial sense. But i cant afford the upfront whack of 10k.


Electric Boiler with internal storage or electric boiler with direct cylinder. Thats the choice i need to make

 

[dancinplumba]

Not sure either, know you can deffo with CALOR but oil ? Simong will tell us

 

[dancinplumba]

Lol simon

 

[dancinplumba]

Is house really well insulated ?

 

[rpm]

God, this thread twisted my melon man :lol:

I`m here to learn ID, probably never use it but still beats what`s on TV lol