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Completing the short form below will give you the full contact details for someone to install Electric Heating in your property. These will be electricians who cover your local area. You will also at once be provided with their full contact details. You can then get in touch with them directly and compare prices and services. If you wish to place an order you deal with them directly.
Completing the short form above will give you the full contact details for someone to install Electric Heating in your property. These will be electricians who cover your local area. You will also at once be provided with their full contact details. You can then get in touch with them directly and compare prices and services. If you wish to place an order you deal with them directly.
Electric Heating Installation
The UK government has ruled that no new homes built after 2025 will use gas boilers, with low-carbon heating systems adopted as an alternative to help lower CO2 emissions. At that point electricity offers a viable alternative fuel for heating. Various types of electric heating systems can be installed, each with its own range of benefits and drawbacks.
No one system can be recommended for all situations so it is best to look at a variety of solutions before decided on which one suits a particular application.
Night storage heaters – are the most cost-effective form of electric central heating, using ‘night-time’ cheap rate electricity to heat special heat-retaining ceramic bricks. These bricks then give out heat around the clock using the heat stored inside them. As this heat runs out, you have to wait until the next night for the bricks to reheat, which means that your home is coldest in the evening. However, there are some storage heaters that allow you to turn on immediate heat at any time of the day.
Electric boilers - provide central heating and domestic hot water to properties without burning any fuel, such as oil and gas. Instead, they only use electricity, in a very similar way to a kettle. Electric boilers are often compact units that are easily installed and don’t require a flue or condensate pipe as they don’t produce any waste gases.
Air source heat pumps - serve as an alternative way to heat a home, and could be the ideal way to generate heat and potentially save money on energy bills. Air source heat pumps absorb heat from the outside air to heat a home and provide hot water. They can still extract heat when air temperatures are as low as -15°C.
Air source heat pumps need electricity to operate, but because they are extracting heat from the environment, the heat output is greater than the electricity input. This makes them an energy efficient method of heating.
Ground source heat pumps - also known as, Geothermal heat pumps, can provide heating and even supply hot water to a home by transferring heat from the ground.
Ground source heat pumps can deliver significant savings on heating and cooling costs and are environmentally friendly. They do, however have high upfront installation costs and will require significant landscape disruption during installation.
It is strongly recommended that you use an Electrician who is registered with one of the government approved schemes to carry out any electric heating installation.
Registered Electricians will work in conformance with the UK national standard which is, BS 7671 - Requirements for Electrical Installations. Part P was introduced into the Building Regulations by the government in 2005, as the new electrical safety rules and applies to all homes in England and Wales.
When contractors are registered with a scheme, they are able to self-certify work as being compliant with Building Regulations avoiding the need for a local authority Building Regulations Inspector to visit and check the work.
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