Gas2 K

Heating and Plumbing

Our heating engineers are trained & qualified in best practice energy efficient installations. This ensures your system meets or exceeds the building regulations part L for energy efficiency. This also means we can notify your new installation to local building control at a much reduced price without the need for a costly inspection for certification. You will receive your building control completion notice within 2 weeks of installation. This certificate will be required if you ever sell your home.

Should be installed in the main living area of the house. It tells the boiler when the house is warm enough and stops the boiler. Without one or if it is incorrectly located the boiler will keep on firing regardless of whether the house is warm enough. This can cause your home to be uncomfortably hot and wastes a lot of fuel. Further savings can be made with the use of a Programmable room thermostat; these change the target temperature automatically depending on the time of day.

Clean system water correctly treated with anti corrosion inhibitor like Fernox is vital to an efficient and reliable system. It protects the components like pumps and valves and ensures radiators heat up evenly. When dirty it can cause over heating of the boiler causing it to cycle (come on and off for short periods), which is very inefficient. The sludge deposits can cause blockage and excessive wear causing components to prematurely fail. It can cause leaks, which in turn accelerate the corrosion process. It causes radiators to become silted up thus reducing the amount of heat they can emit into the room. All in all it causes your system to become more expensive to run and maintain while becoming colder.

These valves should be in all rooms without a room thermostat. They sense the temperature of the room and when satisfied they close the valve to the radiator preventing the room getting too warm. When they shut the radiator, the boiler has less work to do. Without them rooms can become uncomfortable hot and your boiler has to work a lot harder and wastes more fuel.

If you have a hot water storage cylinder (not for Combi boilers) it should have a thermostat attached to the bottom third. It should be set between 55 & 60 degrees centigrade, this temperature will prevent scalding and microorganism growth. This thermostat tells the boiler when the stored hot water is up to temperature and turns the boiler off. Without one the boiler will continue heating beyond the required temperature causing the water to be too hot and wasting fuel.

This is required to automatically control the times of day you need heating and hot water. It prevents the boiler firing when not required and conveniently provides heating and hot water only when required. Without one the boiler can fire when unnecessary so wasting fuel.

A SEDBUK band A high efficiency-condensing boiler when installed correctly will save energy in vast amounts compared to non-condensing boilers. It has been a legal requirement to install a band A or B boiler when replacing your old boiler for a couple of years now. Gas 2 K only fit the highest efficiency band A boilers. These are over 90% efficient, compare that with older boilers that may be as little as 55% efficient and the numbers speak for themselves.

Zoning by installing zone valves in your heating pipe work along with room thermostats in other parts of your home, we can divide your heating system to control different parts of your home at different times. For example a 2-storey house could have a zone for down stairs and a zone for upstairs. This way you only heat the bedrooms when you need to and the same goes for the main living area. This will save energy in a big way, because you won't be heating bedrooms when you are sitting downstairs and vice versa.

Pipe insulation/lagging should be installed on all exposed pipe work were it provides no useful heat. Thermal energy loss through un-insulated pipes will waste energy.

Loft insulation laid to a depth of 270mm will massively reduce the amount of heat you lose from your house, thus reducing the amount of energy you need to burn to warm it up. If you are over 70 years old or in receipt of benefits we can arrange to insulate your loft for free. If not we can supply and install for it for you for £14 per metre Sq. Or if you want to install it yourself we will deliver it to your door for £10 per metre sq. Prices include VAT. Your house will lose approximately a quarter of its heat through the roof.

Insulated Hot water cylinder. If you have an older hot water cylinder it may not have any form of insulation around it or it may be poorly insulated. A factory-insulated cylinder will reduce the thermal energy loss and save energy. A cheaper alternative is to fit a jacket to you existing un-lagged cylinder. Although not nearly as efficient as a factory-lagged cylinder it will save you money and will pay for itself easily within a year.