>> Incidentally, out of that I only just noticed the below. That passed me by until
>> now.
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>> www.showhouse.co.uk/news/gas-supplies-could-be-banned-in-new-homes-by-2025/
That's been giving me cause to think this last couple of weeks.
We're building a house to replace the one that caught fire. If they aren't going to be building houses with gas boilers in 5 years time, why would we build one now? I'm thinking air-source heat pump.
On the other hand, the designer/frame supplier is saying that the received wisdom is to use gas if it's there. It is, we had gas CH in the old house. You need to put about a kWh of electricity into a heat pump to get 3kWh of heat out. So at 15p a unit, about 5p per kWh of heat. Gas is still under 4p/kWh so still as cheap as a heat pump. Heat pump costs £6k, gas boiler costs £1k.
I'm drowning in decisions. Everything has moved on. Lights aren't simple, we will have mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, we'd like to put some solar thermal in but we don't really want to despoil the SW-facing front of the roof, are bi-folds better than sliding doors/french doors, should we attic the roof which would mean a full fireproof staircase...etc etc.
Maybe I should get design tips from the brains trust here.
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