Heating costs for gas heating
Gas heating offers several advantages over central heating. However, the advantages are offset by the acquisition costs, which together with the heating costs determine the effort.
A gas heating system can be a pure gas boiler, if it only heats the apartment, or a combination boiler, if it also heats the domestic water. It is offered with condensing technology or low temperature technology.
Gas heating is an individual facility
- For the tenant, but also for the landlord Condominium In an apartment building, the gas heating offers the advantage that the heating costs are based solely on the consumption of the tenant in this apartment.
- It is usually the case in a residential complex that the heating is generated centrally and passed on to the individual apartments. According to the heating costs ordinance, the landlord is obliged to charge at least 50% of the heating costs based on consumption. He can calculate the rest according to an individual distribution key, which is based on the living space or the number of people in the tenant apartment. In individual cases, this can lead to injustices and more or less burden individual tenants compared to other tenants.
- In the case of gas floor heating, billing based on a distribution key can be omitted. Only the tenant's consumption is decisive.
- The gas floor heating can be installed where the gas pipe is led into the apartment, for example in the bathroom, in the storage room, but also in the attic or in the basement.
- Above all, it is also independent of a chimney, as a short exhaust pipe through the outer wall or through the roof is sufficient.
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In addition to the heating costs, the acquisition costs are incurred
- In view of these advantages, it must be taken into account that a gas heating system is of course in the purchase, in operation and maintenance is likely to be more expensive than central heating, especially if the tenant bears the costs himself.
- The acquisition costs for a condensing boiler are to be calculated at around 1800 €, for a condensing combination boiler with hot water storage at around 2200 €.
- The installation costs add up to around € 1000-1500.
- If there is no gas connection in your apartment, depending on the structural conditions, a one-off cost of approx. 2000 € to be expected.
- Otherwise, the tenant or the respective apartment owner who lives in the apartment himself bears the running costs, which he usually settles directly with the energy supplier. In an 80 m² apartment with a heat requirement of around 100 kW / m² / year, approx. 600 € (gas prices as of mid-2012). Incidentally, the heating costs are based on your individual needs.
- If necessary, get competent advice and compare the costs with the existing situation.
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