Weaning yourself off gas - getting it disconnected. Anyone done it?

I am not doom and gloom at all, just don't think its a good idea to have all your baskets in the one egg. There is loads more potential for connecting anaerobic digesters to the gas network and someone will figure out how to harvest those pesky methane clathrates at some stage. I doubt anyone who has a heat pump is using serious amounts of gas but it's good to still have the option as a backup.

So I've a gas hob. Like unkel interested in weening myself off gas. Not ready for the "full Mc Coy" of electric heating yet, but thinking of induction hob. What are the disadvantages with the induction hob system. Obviously I get the advantages (no fossil fuels being burnt), but I'm keen on learning from people who have one the things that they've noticed they can't or struggle with over gas. I'm not a Michelin chef but I can fry an egg :-)

Anyone out there done this swap already ?

The disadvantage is that most but not all of them have touch screen controls and those don't respond very well if something boils over and they are slightly finnicky in general (you hae to select the ring you want to change the setting on first, then change the setting. bit more awkard than a twist knob)

Other than that there is nothing wrong with them. Your kitchen won't get that sticky residue the gas leaves behind. If I was buying an induction hob I'd seek one out that doesn't rely on touch controls though

Interesting discussion and, like unkel, one we are having in our house although replacing oil and an insert solid fuel stove.

Boiler could really do with being replaced and we are looking at a small pellet stove for the living area come the winter months.

House is B2 rated and we are currently pricing replacing the doors and windows (not a great time to be pricing anything at the minute) as those installed are poor enough from a thermal/airtightness point of view and are the biggest issue for us at the minute and one we feel will make the most difference for our quality of life, walls pumped with walltite and attic insulation I have topped up recently so those are good.

Once the windows/doors are done it is then the heating side of things and what road we go down. UFH is not an option so am wary of heat pumps so we have also been looking at some of the options listed here as well as mhrv system which should bring us into A rated territory, windows alone will hit B1.

Not averse to diy and as it is a bungalow access is good so running pipework etc. is more straight forward than most. If that electicQ unit linked by SD_DRACULA could have the pipework fed in from above it would be an interesting proposition and make installation a lot handier for us.

Have plenty of outdoor space so upping the solar pv and adding a east facing ground mount system is on the list to make use of the early morning production and hopefully giving us good generation to run what ever we decide for the heating.

pretty much every evening...but i guess it is mostly wok type stuff, with rice/noodles. so not boiling spuds etc! oven is electric which is where other meals are cooked...

i did buy one of those yokes for boiling eggs in aldi cause it bugged me that i used the gas for 10 minutes to boil eggs every day...so thats my bit for the environment too

I bought a mid terrace house in an estate that has a Calor gas tank which supplies the houses. I rang up to enquire about getting an account set up. When they told me the price of the gas was € 3.29 per m3 and was going up to another 33c plus VAT I said to them forget it and to just get the supply disconnected.

That was in February and I have had no heating in the house since. I find that it is fine. No need of it. I think the house gains an awful lot of heat through the party wall, so my neighbours are heating my house for me.

Nobody is saying that there are no environmental costs to renewable energy and yes using less is definitely the greenest way. But we'll always have to use some electricity. And what is the cost of digging up and hauling all that coal or drilling for all that gas? You have to compare it to the cost of the lithium and whatever else and then measure which is more polluting over a reasonable timescale. Turns out people have done those calcs and solar panels pay off after about 18 months assuming you burnt coal to make them. The electricity they produce in those 18 months offsets the pollution caused in producing them entirely. Everything after that is a net saving.

I'm in the process of looking at this at the moment. We're getting external insulation put onto the house, which means the gas meter has to be moved anyway. GNI have to do all of the work with the meter move, and they charge over €600 to move the meter or over €800 to disconnect you from the gas network. Our gas boiler as nearly 20 years old, so needs to be replaced anyway, so it makes sense to move to a heat pump. Like you, we have a gas fire, but haven't actually used it in the last 10 years, so won't miss it.

If you're concerned about cooking on induction, get one of the little portable induction hobs that plug into a standard 13A socket and see how cooking on it works for you. I got one in Ikea for about €40 a few years back, but I don't think they do them there anymore. The only issue I have is that the pots slide a little on the hob, as it is so smooth relative to a gas hob.

How do you work out you need only two? What you not need one per room or would you replace some rads with electric rads?

Induction hobs have been around for a long time, and they've improved a lot over time.

I'm totally converted, and would not go back to gas at this stage - I find a combination of induction and cast iron cookware the sweet spot for me.

The only gas we have in the house now is a canister of Bio-LPG for the barbecue.

It's electric all the way - with a heat pump and solar PV.

No complaints.

Recommend switching your open gas fire for a closed solid fuel (wood) burning stove. Reduce heat loss in the room and replace gas with a renewable resource.