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  • Hi,
    Dont you just hate when that happens. Its not for me.

    Thanks.
  • All I can say is you are the loser
  • I am being charged 43p per unit plus VAT for LPG delivered to a tank which is sitting empty as it costs over £500 to fill it. Is this really expensive and is it difficult to change supplier as the tank seems to belong to them? We did not install it - it was there when we moved in.
  • abigbill
    abigbill Posts: 26 Forumite
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    What to do.

    The Real LPG Rules:

    1) Admit what the Flogas Calor rules really are. They are... freeze or pay. So, once you’re out of term. don’t ever never, never, never sign a contact with Calor or Flogas. Do this, and the front-bottoms whatever the promise, will shaft you next October.
    2) Contact?: If you MUST sign. Make sure the tank lift fee is either crossed out or is a fiver. 50p is better.
    3) Then keep swapping between the two.
    4) Open your chimney and put a Dowling (speak to Steve the Jock) , Aarow or Trianco coal fired boiler in, with a Dunsley Neutraliser linkup (so you’re not caught out until the stove slumbers and gets to heat in the morning and then the stat cuts the LPG) and see bills go down to half mains gas prices. Let alone LPG costs or Oil prices. And have a real fire in you living room, (if you didn not select a Trianco) that never goes out from Oct to April. Buy your 6 tonne of smokeless coal in June. Never Dec. Forget wood. Then October comes and the 54p a litre bill flops on your mat. You just laugh. LOUDLY. You quietly tell ’em to lift the tank. Sweet joy. They don’t lift, but put the ppl down. You do you porridge every morning with LPG and your water only in summer. Consumption? Half a tank a year. Or less. My consumption, bill last year would be 7700 litres @54p = £4148. But, never again. Coal is easy if you have the proper set-up. just throw a bag in. No loose coal to deal with. No bunker. My coal bill? £1500 a year.
    5) Thus I declare my love for Messrs. Flogas & Calor. The beast is tamed.
    6) Ignore 1-5 and you must PAY or freeze, or you could just move. Sorry.
  • hi, im a new member, just about to move into a 3 bedroom semi detached house, also got a baby due in 20 weeks, the house is running 4 x 47kg cans, any suggestions on cheapest way to make this work?
  • This is one of the most expensive forms of heating.

    Look critically at how you can improve the insulation in your home, loft is an obvious starter, followed by very good draught excluders on your external doors. Excellent make of draught excluders is Sealmaster, though mostly suitable only for timber doors rather than plastic.

    Get a condensing boiler and check market for best fuel options.
  • Dear tired of being ripped off.

    I cannot agree with you more!!!! Having just contacted my supplier for another 47kg cylinders I have been informed there is to be yet another increase in price. Since moving into my property over a year ago, all I have seen is an increase in price of LPG (despite far more fluctuation related to oil prices for my Auto gas).

    I have also emailed my local MP with the points you have raised.

    Keep up the good work. :T

    PCollins
  • We are building a house in a Aldington, Worcestershire and there is no mains gas in the village. We were going to have oil for central heating. We are really keen to continue cooking on a gas hob so were advised to run a gas hob off 2x47kg lpg cylinders aith a remote indicator. Just trying to find out how much this will cost to run and if it's an economical option just for cooking?


    Rhiannon
  • We have your proposed arrangement at the moment. I can't give you accurate numbers, but a bottle lasts us maybe 3 months, which is very acceptable for the convenience of having gas cooking (electric oven).

    In terms of £/kwh for lpg in 47kg bottles; it depends where you are in the country and how much you have to pay.

    Example from a while ago at £40.57 per bottle:
    You get 93.3 litres in your 47kg tank so 93.3 litres x 7.1kw = 662.4 kw
    £40.57/662.4 = 6.1p per kwh

    Mains gas is ? maybe averaging 4 p per kwh

    The point really is, you don't use much for cooking comapred with heating and hot water

    PS, you really should look at heat pumps and compare with your oil heating proposal
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