Now owners of country houses, apartments pay big money for heating, but not always the amount of tax corresponds to energy consumption. To save money and to choose the most economic option of heating for the house or the apartment, it is necessary to know the cost of different types of heating.
Heating on solid fuel
Most often in owner-occupied dwellings the heating on solid fuel is used: it can be firewood or coal. Wood heating – one of the most widespread. Furnaces are used to heating of the dwelling already many decades. But, despite simplicity of this way, for today firewood cost expensive. If to compare this way to gas, then it is less economic, but at the same time is cheaper than electric. Besides, the profitability and consumption of firewood in many respects depend on the following factors: qualities of warming of the house (walls, floor, base, roof), outside temperatures, arrangements of the furnace.
Alternative to oven heating – fireplace. In some houses still use heating on coal firing, this way cheap, but not effective. Especially if the heated area very big.
Other heating services
Undoubtedly, the cheapest is gas heating. Natural gas in our country is available to everyone. These inexpensive raw materials. But connection of gas heating services in the apartment or the house requires expensive equipment. The service of connection is costly too. But, despite all this, the similar heating system will pay off in several years. One more modern way of heating of the house is use of solar batteries. It is almost free way of heating. For it it will be required to buy batteries of high power only. The way has the shortcomings. Main of them is that efficiency of heating low. It depends on season, activity of the sun. It will be possible to warm with such system the placement only on short time. At this way warmly at first collects during the first half of day, and then it is given. One more way of heating – by means of electricity. It can be modern figurative or stationary heaters or electric floors. This system very effective, heat at it is distributed evenly. But it is the most expensive. Every year the cost of electrical energy increases. The most widespread way of heating – water with use of radiators. But the organization of such system requires acquisition of pipes, automation of the equipment. It is quite expensive. Owing to all this, the most economic heating services of the house or apartment is gas.