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Condensing oil boiler - The best heating system in UK

One of the most important aspects of any home is the heating system, especially in a cold place like UK. It plays a huge part in our everyday lives. We use it to ensure that we stay warm when it is cold outside, we use it to dry out clothes, keep the home from getting damp and of course warming our water.
Even if it only warmed our water it would still be important – after all the water is vital for showers, doing the washing up, the washing, the dishwasher and much more. Without our heating systems we would be living in freezing cold homes falling apart because of damp.

A Condensing Boiler

So it is important that you get the best heating system possible for your home. And this is where the condensing boiler comes in. The condensing boiler is one of the most popular heating systems available for the home – because it is both powerful and efficient at providing the heating that you need.

It is very efficient because the condensing oil boiler reclaims heat that would otherwise be lost to other boilers. As water is heated, the steam and water vapour escape. The condensing boiler is able to trap this gaseous water and return it to a liquid state, reclaiming the heat that would be lost to the system as gas.
This means that the condensing boiler is able to heat up more quickly than other boilers, and requires less energy to do so – as less energy is lost.

This is vital for anyone who is either looking to have a ‘greener’, more eco-friendly house or those who simply want to cut down on their heating bills. Because the less power needed to heat up the water, and the less time, the lower the heating costs are going to be.

Eco-Friendly - Condensing Boilers

One way that we can look at making our homes that bit more ‘green’ or eco-friendly is by addressing our heating system.
It is a sad fact that most heating systems are tremendously inefficient. They lose masses amount of heat out through various flaws in their system. This heat leakage causes more fuel to be needed to heat up the water and the home, usually over longer periods of time.

What does this mean to the average person?

It means that if you are looking for a way to make your heating system more ecologically friendly, and also looking to save money on your heating bills at the same time (who said being green had to be expensive?) then you need to improve the efficiency of your boiler.


This is actually not that hard to do. For example did you know that the average boiler only has something like a 70-80% efficiency? This can even be considerably lower for older models.
But there are boilers on the market today which are far, far more effective at retaining heat and using less fuel, and so being more economically friendly. For example many condensing boilers have around the 98% efficiency mark.

This saves a huge 28% on some of the worst offending boilers – burning considerably less fuel and costing you far less in bills.
This comes for a number of reasons – but the main reason is the improvement of technology. Technological increases have meant that we are now far better at preventing heat and energy from escaping our boilers – able to reuse the energy that would otherwise be lost through steam, for example, transferring it into the accelerated heating up process.
A condensing boiler is one of the first and most essential tools you should get when it comes to helping make your home a greener and more cost effective place.