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Problems with installing a woodburner
We have converted a long, low stable block with a flat roof to a house. The heating is by a solid fuel Rayburn which is great. However, this has the most enormous, ugly, factory chimney. I think the only reason our miserable NIMBY neighbours have not moaned about it is that they cannot really see it. With the Rayburn we…
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Meter Reading responsible?
Who responsibility is it to read the meter? The supplier or the customer? Over the years this has changed from the supplier doing regular readings to the customer being asked to do them? Does anyone know the law or regulations on meter reading? Cheers Chris.
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New Boiler woes
In December we had a new Worcester Bosch external heatslave 25/32 combi boiler fitted to our 3 bed semi to replace a 20 year old boiler. We took the opportunity to purchase a new boiler as we were having an extension built and the old boiler was beginning to go wrong. We had 500 litres of oil delivered on 22nd December…
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Help! 247Rescue not regulated
I've had a nightmare with 247rescue and just cancelled everything. They are saying they can take a long time to give me back money I've paid for a chemical inhibitor I never had and they intend to take another months payment for a service that they never provided due to all the small print. When I said I wanted to make a…
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Best way to heat a space
Does anyone know the best way to heat a space currently without heating so we can actually use it during the winter? It is 24ft long x 9ft wide x 13ft high (vaulted ceiling) it is an infill between our garage & house. It's properly insulated. The mains gas supply is right behind the wall in there in the garage. We can not…
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Boiler not heating rads properly
Hi MSE, The bolier is an old GlowWorm Micro 40FF in a bungalow I moved into a few months ago. Usually what happens is: It comes on but only heats the rads partially - even with thermostat set well up. I turn it off using the thermostat, wait a minute, then turn it back on with the thermostat. It comes on again and heats…
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Pellet Boiler woes
Hello all, I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the consumption of my pellet boiler. For the month of January I used 960kg of Verdo Premium pellets. We live in a 10 year old detached house with an EPC heat demand of 15,600kwh per year (including DHW). Over the last 3 years we have average 6.5 tonnes of pellets per…
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Avoid 24/7 Home Rescue. Liars and cheats.
I was persuaded to transfer 12 policies from D&G and so wish I hadn’t. First call out - a tiny nut was broken. Condemned the boiler with tape and said part obsolete and needed a new boiler. Tracked down part myself for £20 and had it installed for £50. Next call out to another rental property. My tenants have no heat or…
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How does flogas billing work.
Hi. I've searched but I can't seem to find the exact thing I'm looking for. Example: I moved in to an LPG property almost 9 months ago. I signed a contract and they came to fill my tank up. Now my tank is 1200L and they say I will be paying 34ppl + VAT. I've used most of the tank already but I only have £100.00 debit…
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Cost of LPG from Flogas
I have a 1200 litre LPG tank owned by Flogas and have been their customer for about 10 years. I agreed to a new 2 year supply on 16/8/16 at a price of 41.5 ppl + VAT fixed for 1 year. Then, the year being completed, they increased the price to 48.8 ppl (reasonable!) on 9/9/17. However since then I have had increases to…
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Moving to a new home
Hi Everyone, I am looking for some advice! We are moving from the suburbs to the country and with it moving from the comfort of mains gas to LPG. We are trying to work out what we need to do to get our 300 year old stone built home to be warm and not cost the earth to heat. At the moment there is a boiler which works off a…
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Log Stove sizes
I am looking for a traditional looking Log stove (with a boiler) that heats a small cottage room and the boiler part to feed into a (not yet purchased) thermal store. I have used the calculation of 1kW for every 14 cubic metres which equals 2.6kW. The room has two doors that are left permanently open so we guess about 5kW…
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Gas Boiler Problems
Hi Wondering if anyone can advise please? Baxi combi boiler some years old. Yearly gas safety checks usually go ok but last week we has usual check but since then the boiler hasn't been the same. It's going on and off every two minutes at say 22 degrees on room stat. Just timed it and from 10:52 until 11:09 it's been on…
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Heating Sense Check
Could someone tell me I'm not going crazy please? Last year we moved into a rented 3 bed detached bungalow - suspect built in the 60's. Although it's not the best insulated house in the world, it's not the worst either. The heating is run from a Baxi Duo Tec 40 and whilst it seems to manage ok, I've become very concerned…
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Heating
Hi all, I'm buying a house that has old storage heaters , it has 2 in living room one at bottom of stairs one at top and one in each bedroom (2) , would I be better getting connected to gas mains and installing gch while the house is empty or just carryon till heaters break down etc?
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New off grid boiler required Oil vs LPG???
My current Potterton Statesman flowsure oil boiler has gone bang apparently needs a new solenoid and electrode and apparently a part is obsolete so rendering it !!!!!!ed???? So do I go for a new Oil boiler circa £2000+ or change to LPG where the boilers are much cheaper but understand LPG is slightly dearer . Currently…
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What am I doing wrong?
Hi, We've recently had a multi fuel stove fitted, and I was looking forward to having a toasty warm room. But this is yet to happen :( I've seen online numerous times people saying they can get their room so warm that it's too warm, but I must say our room is definitely not that warm! We've tried burning just logs, just…
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Energy Switch Negative Impact on Credit Score
I recently switched from EON to NPOWER at the end of the year. I occasionally check my credit score with Experian and noticed my score had taken a dive. I spoke to Experian who told me that as I had switched and therefore didn't have more than 3 months history with my new supplier my credit score had taken a hit. I was…
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Metered Estate newbuild queryh
Hi everyone! We are seriously considering a newbuild property. Unfortunately it is on metered flogas. I have established that they are currently paying 35ppl. I am also very aware that this will probably steeply rise having done some research, I have asked to have an air source heat pump installed (I will pay) but they are…
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Solarplicity
We applied to join Solarplicity for our fuel in December and once the 14 day cooling period ended was given 12th January as a their supply start date. On 12th January as requested we submitted up to date meter readings. Today we had our meters read and the man said that we are still with our old energy supplier. Have tried…
