Admittedly, my situation is unusual in that I severely restrict lekky and gas usage, which enabled heat on timer through winter, even now at night. Total cost for abode about £1.60 per day in lekky, far more with gas.
The Worcester boiler is on "Eco" setting, which does strange things. The entire bedroom unit stopped working the other night but all others kept heating. Oh noes, search for leaks, thoughts of bleeding the wall unit etc., even calling in an engineer at ruinous cost.
Last evening, it decided to turn itself on again ... go figure, as our cross-pond cousins might say. Obviously, there's some thermostat thingy working in each room, not just the boiler thermostat ... who am I to argue?
What I do know is it does not like being off 24/7, much happier with timed bursts through the 24 hours, which we can still do, temp-wise.
Now, swap this Worcester, for all its vicissitudes, with this WEF nightmare? No way known, thank you very much all the same. Question is ... how to stop these bstds forcing the change? Maybe not initially ... but eventually?
Not usually taken into account is the limited life of heat pumps and the cost of replacement with no subsidy. 15 years life and 15 grand replacement?
ReplyDeleteI had a perfectly viable boiler that I chose to update about 15 years ago. I went for an all bells and whistles boiler being a techie and I've had nothing but problems with it for the five years. Replacing electronic panels and costing me a fortune. I replaced it 10 years ago with a cheaper but recommended system and its been OK since, touching wood and crossing fingers. Despite the costs involved I don't believe that the new kit was better, more efficient, etc. than the only on and certainly none of them were worth the cost.
ReplyDeleteIt's all a scam by the government to get more revenue. Government is the cause of every ill we have today and it was much better before the 1980s before they started prodding their noses into every aspect of our lives.