Heating in the apartment: Gas or city? Comparison of costs and advantages for 50m2

Hi!

I know this may not be the forum for this because I couldn`t find a topic like this, but since I`m here, I`ll ask I`m thinking about buying an apartment and maybe someone can advise whether it`s worth buying a flat with gas heating or, if possible, with district heating? or what else to think? I don`t know what the price differences are, does anyone know? and could tell me what the differences are in relation to the month/year, apartment 50 m2 +/- if you need more information, feel free to write, thanks in advance for your help!

Hello, city heating.

So when buying an apartment you shouldn’t even consider whether it’s city or gas?

I wrote that it was urban.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Currently, it is difficult to say what is and will be cheaper and what is more expensive, because even Maciej, a fortune teller, does not know these prices and their constant changes. So far, municipal heating has been more convenient and slightly cheaper than gas heating. There is one but, namely the city heating only when the manager says we are heating from today, and it stops when the manager says we are not heating and you have no influence on it because even if you turn off all the radiators, you still pay a share for using the central one. Theoretically, gas ones are a bit more expensive, but you can heat them whenever you want and even if there is a failure of e.g. city pipes or a pump in the station, you are not interested in it, you just heat it yourself.

zdzichra wrote:

Gas ones are theoretically a bit more expensive

It`s also more expensive if the stove breaks down and needs to be replaced if it can`t be repaired, or if it`s old and costs several thousand dollars.

Of course, you are right that the boiler is also your expense. Let me be clear, until recently, when it comes to costs, city buses were cheaper. Nobody knows what it will be like tomorrow. Most heating plants are fired with coal, the price of the raw material has now increased 3-4 times, so the price of this heat will also increase.

Municipal heating (especially when the heat source is a coal-fired power plant) should be significantly cheaper. The disadvantage is that they impose heating even when the weather requires cooling air conditioning (typical heating is in May, which is more and more often not a spring month, but a SUMMER month).

Zbigniew Rusek wrote:

The disadvantage is that they impose heating even when the weather requires cooling air conditioning

But who imposes? Heat supplier or cooperative?
The heating network usually operates all year round and only heats hot water in the warm months. If you have a house or a terraced house with your own heating system, you decide whether central heating and domestic hot water works or only domestic hot water. In a block or tenement house there is a certain date for turning the central heating system on and off - something like 3 days with the temperature below 10 degrees, and necessarily from October 1. Perhaps we should consider changing the spring shutdown date and giving a longer conditional period. This is probably some kind of nationwide recipe, but I`ve never needed to read it.
If there is an individual heat meter, all you need to do is turn off the radiators, but in fact there is a problem with older buildings that have heating risers and dividers on the radiators, or even worse, a flat-rate settlement based on the area of the apartment.

I would aim for urban ones. I have one and it`s cheaper than my friend`s with gas, but it`s not a good comparison because I have 50 meters and he has a lot more meters to heat.

thanks everyone for your help! Maybe I'll go for the gas ones, but you can heat them whenever you want and as much as you want

Desperadosx wrote:

thanks everyone for your help! Maybe I`ll go for the gas ones, but you can heat them whenever you want and as much as you want

But only if you have an individual boiler in your apartment. If you have a gas boiler room common to the entire building, it is similar to any other central heating system, so if you find a gas boiler in the advertisement, check whether it is your own boiler or a shared one.

And you pay for what you use, not, for example, leaking hot water in the node 😁

You have an old furnace, you buy a new one, but the size is small, and the boiler is too powerful, because there is no choice - an apartment with an area of 45 m2 and it is constantly on.

I see I know I probably won’t go to the city ones, but what about gas, is it not worth taking a shared boiler? ^^ and if it is shared, they also heat as they want, e.g. in the city, can I heat it whenever I want? only there is a price difference? and if it is common, can I then arrange an individual one? Is it not worth thinking about it at all because it is too expensive?

It`s difficult to answer such questions. It all depends on the number of rooms that are heated by the shared heating system and on the layout. You need to "interview your potential neighbors by asking them these questions😁"

If it`s municipal, don`t go for heat dividers. If there is a heat meter for the apartment, it`s ok. The same applies to every boiler room.