Why Are People Opting for Electric Heating Over Gas?

In the old days, the only form of heating available in the UK was through gas; gas boilers would be installed at properties to pump hot water in kitchens and bathrooms. They are still available here, especially in older properties but you might have observed the trends to be changing.

An electrical heated home is the latest change to which many people are adapting. Your neighbors might have an electrical heated home, your friends might be thinking of this upgrade as well. Perhaps you too are on the same route. Even if you do not have a fully functional electrical heated home, you should know why this trend is taking the UK by storm.

Although people have their own different reasons, all of different importance according to their needs, here is a list of four of the best reasons for you to consider investing in an electrical heated home.

1. Safety: combustion poisoning is a very real threat that takes up many lives around the world. Carbon monoxide is the gas which can leak from a gas based heater and if not detected can be fatal. An electric heater will not emit any harmful gasses.
2. Legislation: the law requires all newly built homes in the UK to be electrically heated meaning that no supply of gas would be given. This is to save on natural fuel. So now the law requires people to upgrade their homes to electric heating.
3. Money Saving: gas heating systems are more expensive to install and they don’t last as long as electric ones, so many people have also started to shift to save money annually. Electrically heated systems when insulated properly also allow people to save up to 40% annually in utility bills.
4. Environment Friendly Alternative: as time is passing, people are growing more and more in terms of awareness regarding environmental degradation and climate change. People have become very conscious about reducing their overall carbon footprint to help save our atmosphere as much as possible. This ideology is the primary driving force of green businesses such as electrical heated homes, insulation services, electric vehicles etc. to exist in the first place. It saves a lot of natural resources like fuel and it does not cause any of the harmful emissions adding to pollution and depletion.

Although many homes in the UK have yet to be on board of the electrical heated home train, these four reasons make it quite a worthy decision, wouldn’t you think? You can start by making the most basic change here; get yourself a new boiler. If you cannot afford one at the moment, check your eligibility here at Marigold Eco because you just might qualify to get a free boiler replacement.

Once you have yourselves a new boiler, you can think about getting other services to convert your home into electricity based. Here at Marigold Eco we work with the government using the Eco3 grant to provide such services to as many people as possible to help bring this electrical revolution much faster.