Potterton Gold heat only electric boiler

[Jock Spanners]

Evening All,

Has anyone experience of fitting a Potterton Gold heat only electric boiler? I have a customer who lives in the sticks, off gas, miles from anywhere whose brother (also retired) is ex-British Gas and has recommended one. My customer wants to lose the oil boiler and tank and gain some extra space inside and out. He seems quite determined. I can't find much info online - they appear to be 12kW and can be fitted in relays of two or three boilers. The house is three bedrooms with two wood burning stoves downstairs and a vented hot water cylinder. The boilers cost about £600 a piece. My gut instinct is that it will prove prohibitively expensive to run but would love to be convinced otherwise.

 

[Chalked]

Electric, is basically twice the cost, per kw of heat into water of natural gas . And at the moment oil is a close second! So ask them is the bit of space worth two times the annual cost of oil?

 

[tamz]

They are basically the old Amptecs who have been bought over by Baxi/Potterton.
They do their job well enough.
6, 9 and 12 kw and you can bank them easily. If you go above 12 the electric board will love you and you might get an invite to their shareholders bash as a major contributor to profits.

There are better more cost effective ways to heat off grid.

 

[Last Plumber]

If he's in the stix I would get a good spark to look over supply first. Tell him what KW you're thinking of !

Some old TT type supplies are not up to the job tbh.

Worth checking before you go down the road of change.

The amptec do work well and if you bank them together they drop off as heat increases, ( modulate ) eg. 12kw then one drops out leaving 9kw then next leaving 6kw etc. Until just one comes in and out. You may already know that and I hope I'm not teaching my grandma to suck eggs.