If you find that headline a little puzzling it is not surprising. After all, who is going to give you a new boiler for nothing?
Well, as it turns out, it is absolutely true. His Majesty’s Government is doing everything that it can in order to reduce carbon emissions and make the UK carbon neutral, and one of the ways that it is doing that is by phasing out older type boilers which are not eco-friendly. All new boilers installed in the UK today have to be condensing boilers (we’ll explain more in a moment) and the government scheme is providing free new boilers to homes and families that qualify.
If you have a boiler that is over 12 years old and is not a condensing boiler, then it may well be that the government will ensure that you get a new one for nothing! Zip. Nada. Zilch!
Condensing Boilers Are Over 90% Efficient!
Non-condensing boilers that burn gas or oil release gases into the atmosphere as they do so, and they are only 65% – 80% efficient. That means that you are literally burning money because a lot of the fuel is wasted. Newer condensing boilers are over 90% efficient, so it follows that if you install one of them you will save hundreds of pounds a year on your heating bills!
In fact, all new gas boilers installed in the UK since April 1st 2005 have been required to be condensing boilers by law, and this was extended to oil boilers as well on April 1st 2007. According to the Committee On Climate Change, some 40% of all CO2 emissions are produced by homes in the UK, and the government wants to reduce this in any way that it can.
One way of doing this is to remove those older boilers and install the condensing type, and this is why you may very well be able to get a free boiler grant in Birmingham to do exactly that. These grants are funded by UK energy companies in accordance with the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) grant scheme.
This means that, as official boiler installers, at GetAFreeBoiler.co.uk we can provide you with a free boiler grant in Birmingham and install the very latest type of condensing boiler in your home – all for absolutely nothing!
Contact us today to see if you qualify and let us deal with all the paperwork. In a couple of weeks, you could have a brand-new boiler and save hundreds of pounds on your heating bills!