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Oil/LPG advice req
Stalwart Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 517 Thanked 173 Times in 111 Posts Default LPG/OIL advice req My mother in laws house has no gas supply she has had storage heaters for years which are next to useless we are thinking about going down the Oil or LPG route from the little research ive done it seems LPG is slightly cheaper…
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Wood burner stovw
I'm looking seriously at buying a woodburning stove. So here is my situation I've been offered a great price on a new Varde Aura 11. Now the company selling it tells me that it will take smokeless fuel even though it is sold as a wood burner Now I do appreciate that salesmen will be salesmen so I contacted another company…
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Oil heating issues?
We recently moved home and the house has oil heating, it has a condensing oil fired boiler but the problem is unless I am doing something wrong takes ages to heat the house. After half an hour half the radiators are still cold, after an hour most are warm but they are not even that warm, you could easily hold your hand on…
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oil combi or system boiler?
Hi, my combi boiler is on its last legs and due replacement. A really strong shower is important to me. The water board tell me mains pressure for my house is good? There is only me but in a four bed house. I understand that a combi makes sense for 1 person but a powerful shower flow is really important to me and I…
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MCZ Musa Hydro 15kw - thoughts
Hi, I'm planning to move from oil fired central heating to a wood pellet powered system that will maintain radiator heating with modest domestic hot water provision. The MCZ Musa appears to tick all the boxes so I'm looking for some real time advice from those kind enough to reply. 1. Is a 15kw output compatible with a 4…
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Calor terminating LPG supply - Alternative needed
Calor have telephoned us to say the LPG bulk tank that currently only serves 2 properties on our road will be switched off 'imminently', the reason they have given is "a problem with the pipework". My wife is a chemical engineer and works in the oil and gas industry so was interested in the reasoning behind the decision…
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Design For Oil Tank Platform
I'm getting different kinds of 'help' regarding the installation of a new 1800l bunded oil tank. I've read the OFTEC leaflet, I've spoken to building control and I've had a chat with the local building supplies chap who sells the blocks, slabs and lintels most people use. OFTEC says, use 215x65 mm lintels wide side up/down…
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Libra 310P Gas Meter Pay as you go or bill
Hi, Just moved in to a council house and was told the gas and eletric was through a regular pay through direct debit supply and was given readings and number for british gas to ring. Today when gas man came to uncap gas he said it was pay as you go (pre-paid is it?), so just wondered are Libra 310P Gas Meters pay as you go…
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Grants Or assistance for heating?
We've recently moved into a house with no central heating. There is an electric shower but other than that no hot water and no heating. Once upon a time there was hot water boiler but hasn't been working for many years and there are no radiators in place. I can't really afford to put CH in this year so the plan was to save…
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Penman Collection Stoves?
We're in the process of choosing a multifuel stove to be installed in our house. We liked the look of the Penman Collection Heritage 100 5kW stove, but are finding it disconcerting that we're unable to find a single independent review of it online. I've had my suspicions confirmed today that it's Chinese-made, however, I…
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Condemning a woodburner
Our local pub has two old but working woodburners. They have their chimney swept annually by a guy who also sells woodburners. They booked him for a sweep and he came out and condemned the two burners. Under what conditions would a woodburner be condemned? I thought that whilst parts need to be replaced they would go on…
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Stove over Jetmaster
Hi Cassie here and new to the forum, We have a 50's semi with an L shaped lounge and dining room, which we can shut off one from the other with glass french doors. The jetmaster is in the lounge bit (measure 68.3.2.2.4 m) and the dining area is 6.3 x 3.0x (sloping with velux) 2.6 mean height ceiling. How do I calculate for…
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High gas usage - what's going on?
Supposedly the average household uses 12,500 kWh of gas a year. Having started monitoring how much we use, it turns out to be somewhere around 31,500 kWh! That's 150% more than average. I'm trying to understand how we could be so much higher than the average. My household consists of my wife and I and our 5 year old son.…
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Communal energy from Housing Association
I'm looking for some help with dealing with our Housing Association with regards to the communal heating and hot water scheme they run and the way they administer it. First let me explain the scheme and what has been happening; We live in a block of 36 flats which are less than 5 years old (we moved in as one of the…
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Price of a bag of coal?
I pay £8.50 for a bag in my area, however, there seems to be somewhat of a monopoly in this area. I wonder if there is a great deal of variation in other parts of the country? I would be grateful to learn the price in your area :search:
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Help -faulty 11 year ol boiler
I have had a gas engineer around and he says its uneconomic to repair. So now we have a boiler that works when it wants to and that we have to keep topping up and sounds like a kettle stating to whistle when it gets hot. So we tried to source a boiler: 1) free boilers - we dont meet criteria of the the specified benefits…
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Immersion Heater Advice Please
I have economy 7 electricity and gas central heating. I was using the immersion heater to heat the tap water during the night then the gas heating to boost it during the day. I've just had solar heating installed with an iBoost+ that heats the water when solar electricity is being exported. I wanted to stop using gas on…
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'wet' storage heating system
OK, this would be for a very specific need - trust me. Forget how efficient or expensive such a thing might be, is there such a thing as a wet storage heater? one that can be connected to a normal circulating hot water central heating system and act sort of like an electric storage heater giving off it's heat over a…
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Our gas fire problems and decisions
Mods! Please move if here is not appropriate. Eleven years ago we bought a fire of a well recommended make, that used a special and expensive lithium battery for ignition. We have been light users, especially since we had our cavity walls and loft insulation upgraded. We have found that the batteries, despite our modest…
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Advice re new immersion heater settings
Last year I had a new hot water tank with 2 new immersion heater fitted. The lower immersion heater has failed and was replace on Tuesday this week. Cost me a further £120 as it is a large tank and takes a long time to empty. Labour cost was £100 and £20 for the immerser The previous thermostadt had numbers on it with the…
