Posted on 28 Februrary 2022
Posted on 28 Februrary 2022
One of the ways you can avoid high energy bills is to make sure your boiler is running as efficiently as possible.
A boiler’s efficiency is the percentage of the total energy used by the boiler to provide useful heating. For example, a boiler which is 94% efficient will have 94% of the energy used going towards heating the home and only 6% is ‘lost’.
Modern condensing boilers are potentially 89-94% efficient whereas a boiler that is more than 20 years old can be as little as 60% efficient.
You may have seen efficiency ratings of A-G on other domestic appliances and boilers are the same. Modern boilers must be A rated and this will be shown on their literature.
As a guide for older boilers, you’ll find the following:
Age of boiler | Energy efficiency |
---|---|
25 | 60-70% |
20 | 75% |
15 | 80-85% |
10+ | 80-85% |
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