Round 8 – Extra costs
While most traditional boilers shouldn’t take more than a couple of days to replace, there are always extra costs that you hadn’t accounted for. The reality is that a heat pump water heater has a few of its own requirements to meet so that it can work effectively. The building must be reasonably well insulated to achieve a low flow temperature, and you may have to increase the size of your radiators. If this is the case, we suggest installing underfloor heating.
Although costly, the large surface area of underfloor heating makes for a significantly lower flow temperature (thus smaller electricity bills), and it also means a room is much quicker to warm up than if you only had radiators.
Heat pump boiler vs traditional boiler: 3 – 3
Round 9 – Eco friendliness
Despite the efficiency of gas, oil and LPG traditional boilers rising to approximately 90%, heat pump water heaters don’t burn fossil fuels to generate heat, making them the clear winners of this round. Their high efficiency also means that even if the electricity powering the heat pump water heater was generated in a coal-fired power station, the carbon emissions given off would be minimal.
Furthermore, there’s the option to power heat pump water heaters on green electricity (from solar farms or wind farms), which would practically reduce their carbon emissions to zero.
Biomass traditional boilers are also a green heating option worth considering. As they burn wood, they’re only emitting the same amount of carbon emissions that were absorbed, so they’re technically carbon-neutral.
Heat pump boiler vs traditional boiler: 4 – 3
Heat pump boiler vs traditional boiler highlights
So, after a gruelling 9 rounds pitting the heat pump water heater against the traditional boiler, do we have a out-and-out winner? Not really.
For homeowners who are off the gas mains grid, building a sustainable home, or simply trying to be a bit more environmentally friendly, we’d suggest investing in a heat pump water heater. For those on gas mains, it’s probably better financially to replace your traditional boiler with a high-efficiency one.
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