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Man, it’s a Gas - Heater, I Mean
If you live in a populated central location, you can enjoy a wide choice of water heating choices, with gas, electricity, wood and kerosene being the four major options. If you live in the sticks, then you might find yourself burning them to heat your water, since the horrendous rises in the cost of heating fuel over the last few years has made the wood-burning stove the default option for most families who are not hooked up to gas and/or electricity. Much as operating a wood-burning stove is very pleasant and can be easily hooked up so that water can be heated through it, not everyone has the energy or inclination to get involved in dragging logs around, especially on a cold winter's night.
For those city dwellers, fuel or even electricity are gradually pricing themselves out of the market, and are becoming less and less of an option to heat water in the home. And most people would say that this is rightly so. There is no escaping the fact that gas heats up a water-heater tank almost twice as fast as electricity, and at less than half of what an electric water heater costs. If there are any drawbacks in choosing a gas water-heater, it is that it is considerably less efficient than an electric heater.
Once the decision has been made, and that is for gas, an aspect that has to be taken into account is where the water heater will be placed. The tank will generally be required to be fixed in place on an outside wall, in order to check a potential gas leak or even a fire should the tank slip even slightly and the gas connection comes loose.
The message is that gas is potentially dangerous and must be treated with the respect it deserves. No matter how tight your budget, you should never consider installing a gas water-heater on your own, and should only have a British Gas certified plumber install it for you. The money you will lay out will be rapidly recovered in terms of peace of mind and safety.
You might also be interested to know that you can keep an eye on the flow of gas into your boiler by installing a wireless boiler monitor. This handy appliance not only helps you to nip any potential problem with your new wall-mounted British Gas boiler in the bud, but also helps to check gas flow efficiency, really making a difference to your monthly fuel bill.
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