Conducting a big change can be a daunting prospect, especially when it’s moving away from something most of us have known throughout our entire lives – fossil-fueled heating. The UK has a legally binding policy to be net zero by 2050, to do this – the steps to decarbonise the domestic heating sector must be taken now.
Domestic heating accounts for 14% of the UK’s total carbon emissions and the alternatives to make the change are out there. Fischer understands that decarbonising the UK’s heating is not a “One Size Fits All’ solution. Fischer’s extensive product range and support services are ideally placed to help the UK ‘Power to Zero’.
Switching to electric heating is a quick, reliable, and efficient solution to reducing carbon emissions and Fischer can help guide you through your transition.
Identify the Right Alternative Heating System for Your Home
The market has a wide range of products, and identifying the most suitable one for your home is key to lasting comfort and warmth.
To do this, Fischer offers a free heating survey to establish which products will be right for your home.
When advising customers on how to improve their home’s energy efficiency, having a firm grasp of heat-loss calculations is vital. Making heat-loss calculations a mandatory part of every heating installation means Fischer will be able to recommend a heating solution that strikes the right balance between being powerful enough to meet peak demand for heat and being efficient enough to keep consumption and emissions down.
As part of the survey, it is important to understand and anticipate a customer’s heating needs, so talking to our prospective customers is an imperative part of our process.
Choose the Best Alternative Heating and Hot Water System for Your Home
It’s important to know what result you are aiming for when choosing to update your home and move away from fossil fuels. Whether it’s replacing all the wet radiators in your home or perhaps tankless water heating is an avenue you’d like to explore.
Fischer offers alternatives to fossil fuels in many different ways.
HeatCore Radiators
Replacing traditional heaters with Fischer’s unique 40mm HeatCore electric radiators is a perfect solution for any home. Each electric radiator can be individually controlled allowing you to set specific temperatures throughout the different rooms in your home.
This room-by-room functionality gives you more control over your heating and can help reduce energy use.
The range of electric heaters suits all tastes and home decor. Choose from the Fischer Classic, Fischer Luxe, or the Fischer Tide. While Fischer’s electric heaters are distinct in their aesthetic appeal, they all feature the same high levels of engineering expertise and our unique 40mm HeatCore. All electric heaters in our range are supplied with a 10-year manufacturer’s guarantee.
Aquafficient
Moving to tankless water heating will save you on space as well as emissions.
The Aquafficient is an innovative, modern, and highly efficient solution to heating water. This instant electric water heater from Fischer uses a single heating element and patented thermal storage technology, to provide instant hot water without the need for tanks. Instead, the hot water is produced from stored heat energy within a unique phase change material.
The Aquafficient can store four times more heat than a domestic water cylinder and provides up to 280 liters of hot water (depending on the size of the unit installed).
Even better, the Aquafficient is half the height of an average water cylinder allowing your household to reclaim space that would have been occupied by a large water storage tank.
Air Source Heat Pumps
Air Source Heat Pumps are currently one of the more popular choices, despite suffering a slower rollout in the UK than in Europe. The efficiency of a heat pump is still unmatched, providing up to 300% efficiency!
Meaning for every unit of energy used, the heat pump is generating three times that amount!
The Fischer Compact Air Source Heat Pump takes heat from the air and boosts it to a higher temperature using a compressor. It then transfers the heat to the heating system in your home.
One of the biggest benefits of the Fischer Air Source Heat Pump is the fact the hot water side of the system is completely independent of the heating side.
Heat Pumps are often criticised for being particularly noisy as they sit outside your home, so having the luxury of being able to switch off one side completely in summer when you are most likely to use your garden means you can continue to relax and enjoy your outdoor space while reducing your home’s carbon emissions.
In 2023, the first major survey of heat pump users found that 81% of households were as satisfied or more satisfied compared with their previous heating systems, including gas boilers and oil systems. Installing an Air Source Heat Pump, is a great choice to begin lowering emissions.*
*https://www.nesta.org.uk/press-release/heat-pumps-get-thumbs-up-from-british-owners-across-all-property-types-in-first-major-survey/
Electric Boilers
Fischer’s Electric Boilers are the ideal replacement for gas and oil boilers, providing guaranteed warmth and comfort whenever you need it. Our electric boilers are 100% energy-efficient and produce zero carbon emissions.
The Fischer EB is available as a highly efficient electric combi boiler and a wall-mounted heat-only electric boiler.
If replacing all the radiators in the home isn’t a route you’d like to go down, the electric boiler is perfect as it can be used in harmony with wet radiators
EB also offers the luxury of choice. As there is no requirement for a flue an Electric Boiler can be placed almost anywhere within the property.
Don’t Forget
With Fischer’s Wireless Thermostat, you can experience room-by-room heating, at 30-minute intervals, keeping you warm when you want.
Easy to install with no wiring, it enables an accurate measurement of the room temperature, whether the room is in use, or not. Every room is programmed to control an economy temperature when not in use and to then be turned up to a comfortable temperature when you need it, making the room warm quickly and efficiently.
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