First Time Central Heating
If you currently live in a property without a central heating system, you are likely paying more to heat your home compared to a property with central heating.
If you currently live in a property without a central heating system, you are likely paying more to heat your home compared to a property with central heating.
Below are examples of properties considered to have no central heating system:
- Electric room heaters, including direct acting room heaters, fan heaters, and inefficient electric storage heaters
- Gas room heaters
- Gas fire with back boiler
- Solid fossil fuel fire with back boiler
- Direct electric underfloor or ceiling heating (not connected to an electric boiler)
- Bottled LPG room heating
- Solid fossil fuel room heaters
- Wood/biomass room heating
- Oil room heater
- No heating at all
With the push towards renewable heating, it may become more difficult in the future to have a gas supply fitted at your property.
This is especially true for heating grants, as properties wanting gas central heating must have an existing gas supply and meter and must never have had central heating installed.
The following may be installed as First Time Central Heating (FTCH):
- Gas Boiler
- Biomass Boiler
- Air Source Heat Pump
- Ground Source Heat Pump
Bill Savings and Important Information
The exact savings depend on the pre-main heating system and the newly installed system, making it difficult to provide an accurate estimate of bill savings. All properties must have loft or room in roof insulation and cavity or solid wall insulation (if able to be installed) either already present or installed before Gas First Time Central Heating is completed to access ECO4 funding for First Time Central Heating.
Grant funding is available that can cover the full cost of installation (qualifying criteria apply). To check if you are eligible under the ECO4 scheme, please click the button below and complete the online form.