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Old 19.05.2008, 14:06
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Re: To buy or not to buy: house with electric heating?

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Why not make an offer with CHF35,000 - 50,000 knocked off for the heating? But I imagine that if the price is already been dropped twice this has been taken into consideration.

We did look up the cost of changing our oil heating system to an air pump system. The price was CHF17,000 (this system is not the type that they need to dig a big hole in the ground!). But in the end, we thought it's not really worth the money to change it. We spend about CHF2000 per year currently for heating oil.

This price did not include putting radiators in as we would just need to hook up the new system to the old network. I would guess CHF 30-35,000 for the system and installing radiators would do the trick.
Radiators work out to average about 1000chf each fitted (including new pipes etc). It's incredibly disruptive fitting them though because the walls have to be dug out to accommodate the pipes, re-plastered and repainted.
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