Are You Feeling Cold In Your Home This Winter? Examine Your Central Heating Systems

Turn on your central heating boiler and get your radiators powered up in time for the expected cold winter.

With energy bills soaring in recent years, and more people aware of energy consumption, many leave their heating off until the start of mid-autumn only to discover their old boiler isnt working and needs replacing.

After a relatively mild autumn, people are only just switching on their central heating systems and old faulty boilers are now becoming commonplace.

During the cold periods of the year, you will need use your central heating system.

This is the only way to create a pleasant, warm environment in the home during the colder periods of the year.

Having central heating systems that work correctly makes life easier, with a convenient and controllable heating method - provided the system is installed correctly.

How central heating systems work

Heat is created and distributed to the areas or rooms which need to be warmed up. This is done using either warm air or water.

Central heating companies offer independent advice on which types of systems that would be most suited to your particular needs usually either a combination system or a sealed system.

Experts take room measurements, noting age, construction type, existing insulation and window glazing to estimate the type and size of boiler required.

Types of central heating boilers include: conventional, combination, condensing, storage tanks or pressurised cylinders.

But all new fitted boilers must be condensing type to comply with the Governments environmental policy April 2005.

Let us know your budget and, from the above information, central heating specialists cater a solution to meet your budget.

Central heating companies install most types of boilers, new, replacements or up-grades as well as installing complete central heating systems.

It also offers installation, relocation and/or replacements of radiators to existing systems.

A brief history of central heating systems

Central heating technology has a long history. The Romans in Britain used warm air underfloor heating from about 100 AD.

Hot air from fires was channelled under floors and into walls. One of the best examples of this is located Bath, where the Roman Baths are. Central heating was used to heat the hot tubs and steam rooms.

In 37 BC to 668 AD Koreans used warm air central heating in their hot stone floors.

Water assisted central heating was used by Cistercian monks in Spain around 1200 AD - in their famous Monastery the Real Monasterio de nuestra Senora de Rueda, in Aragon region of Spain.

Over the past century, central heating has come a long way. Most homes in colder climates use central heating - with wet central heating systems used radiators to heat the rooms.

Although wet central heating is the most popular method, there is a growing interest in underfloor heating systems for warmth. They originally fell out of favour owing to the fact that they were perceived as noisy and draughty systems.

Some advantages of an unvented central heating system

- You will have hot and cold water supplied to all taps, including drinking water from all cold water taps directly from the incoming water pipe

- Shower flow pressure is fantastic, so there is no need for noisy shower pumps

- Unvented central heating systems are energy efficient, operate quietly and have good water flows rates

- With a balanced hot and cold water supply, you have a wider choice of taps and fittings

- There is no storage tank in the loft, which frees up potentially valuable loft spaces.

This removes the risk of:

- Water stagnation- Legionella

- Frost damage to pipes in the loft

- Lower insurance premiums due to the absence of stored water in the loft

- Greater system design and flexibility to meet your requirements in the home

- Less corrosion in your central heating system owing to the fact that it is not open to the atmosphere, preventing gasses being absorbed

- Less pipework and a lower installation time than other central heating systems

by: Stuart Law

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