New Boilers – So What’s The Future?

When it comes to new boilers, just what is in store for the consumer?

The problem is, that when it comes to new boilers, much of the excitement has happened in the last ten years with the advent of condensing technology. Then came along renewables, but for the marketing men behind the boiler manufacturers, it can be a hard slog generating interest, although this should change over the coming years.

Condensing technology is something that revolutionised the industry and it was quite fortunate that it was a seemingly simple upgrade in the existing technology, that made such efficiency gains possible. 

Condensing technology allowed boilers to go from the doldrums of around 50% to 80% efficiency levels, to around on average 90% and some over 100%. And it was all down to the idea of not just using the heat from the combustion process, but also from the exhaust gases which were hitherto driven out of the flue. Once that heat was used, they suddenly became extremely efficient.

But, almost, that’s old hat now and new boilers are going to have to get into something really exciting, if they are to appeal to both the marketing brigade and the consumer.

And that’s still just around the corner. The use of bio fuels (bio fuel and wood pellets for example), is still not main stream. But the new legislation and industry technologies are in the wings waiting, so much so that 2011 could eventually become a very exciting year for new boilers.