My new boiler is being fitted today.
A colleague has problems with his new condensing boiler's pipes freezing up in winter. Pat, the plumber, says the Valiant boiler, which I'm getting, is made in Germany, which have harder winters than I will, and the water condenses into a container which then vents a quantity of water at a time. He can't promise it won't freeze, but he doesn't expect it to.
I am here in the dining room while Pat and his nephew, Tony, work on the boiler upstairs. It sounds as if they could come through the ceiling at any moment!
Also today, my wood burning stove had a maintenance check and the chimney was swept. This done by Abbotts Stoves, which fitted the stove two years ago. £96! With the cost of wood and the cost of this, and still needing gas to heat upstairs, I'm certainly not saving any money - and that is ignoring the cost of getting and fitting the stove in the first place!
But, with the price of gas rising, that could change in the future. It's fuel security. And any lowering of the demand for conventional fuel takes away from the argument for nuclear power!
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