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I live in Germany and I never heard of this "need". Nobody forces you. Yes, you may want to change your old heating (that's what I do), but you get a lot of sub
by ccozan 7y ago
I live in Germany and I never heard of this "need". Nobody forces you. Yes, you may want to change your old heating (that's what I do), but you get a lot of subvention from the state. You do this, then you also get some good terms on taxing etc.
Same with electricity. You get a better insurance policy if you have it new.
- foepys 7y agoActually, you have to replace your heating every 30 years. Unless you are exempt, which is becoming more and more unlikely. See EnEV §10.
- Bombthecat 7y agoA ton people don't hear about stuff like that,until they need a new credit for all those things...
- ccozan 7y agoTrue ( I didn't know! ), but is damn 30 years!! I'm not sure that they last so long, especially the gas-based. And I am getting an exempt, because I am using Holzpellets ( not sure how are they called in English ) EDIT: Wood pellets, that is.
- pjc50 7y agoI would be astonished to find any heating system more complicated than an open fire that lasted more than 30 years.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoHere in the US steam boilers routinely last that long as long as your water quality isn't too terrible and you do some teeny tiny bit of maintenance. The natural gas ones tend to last longer than the oil ones but both often have a many decade service life. The radiators and pipes themselves last upwards of a century. Wood stoves last basically indefinitely (i.e they are only taken out of service when the building owner decides they're sick of using wood) but you're probably gonna have to do something to make the seams seal better every several decades. Fireplaces last as long as the masonry they're made from (~250yr and counting) as long as you don't let them fall apart and leak CO everywhere. I know some people who live in a house built in the 1700s and while they have forced hot air for "base load" they use the fireplaces to make the downstairs rooms extra warm almost daily in the winter. That said, this is only one step above your "open fire".
- Bombthecat 7y agoJust checked the paragraph,on the site I found they list related laws .. Jesus,it's worse than I thought.its like a stack of cards.it can happen if you touch one thing,you are forced to renew other things...