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Home heating oil help. We cannot wait for the 'detail'. Can help come retrospectively? Need oil NOW
Can someone please convey to Martin Lewis the unintended cosequences of not having an announcement urgently that help will be back-dated for those of us that need to buy our oil for the year NOW so that he can lobby for retrospective help. We don't need the detail, just please announce that we won't miss out if we buy the…
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LPG user, elderly parent, how to minimise cost
I understand that LPG supply of gas via large tank in the garden does not come under the governments energy price cap. My elderly mother (78) is worried as she has a gas boiler linked to a large tank for hot water and her heating. She is of the mind short term to buy some electric radiators for heating, but other than…
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Villager Flatmate - do I fill these gaps?
Just scraped out literally kgs of rust from the inside, especially from the underside of the top plate. Was starting to think there would be little metal left, but actually it's pretty solid. And cleaned out a ~10mm gap between the rear firebricks and the back panel - see photo. Also, due to the square shape of the floor…
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Oil Boiler doesn't want to stay on.
We have a Grant Vortex Oil Boiler around 15 years old and it will fire up for around 30 seconds and then switch off. Plenty of oil in the tank. Pressure is fine, know its getting a signal and recently serviced. I have tried the overheat button and the reset button but this is hit and miss. Automatic valves changed recently…
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Oil or off peak electricty for domestic hot water?
I normally use off peak electricity to heat my hot water via the immersion heater. Now that electricity is so expensive, I wondered whther I should use my oil boiler to heat the water (I only use that for heating the house).I've tried to calculate this: I've just bought some oil - price is 90.2 pence per litre. Off peak…
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FIT Issues
I need help/advice please, having just read your article about solar panels. We have solar panels on our roof, that were installed as part of house when it was built by Keepmoat homes in 2017. I have since queried how much we get repaid by British Gas (our provider since moving in) as I noticed we are getting 0.42p per KW.…
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Infrared to Assist Underfloor Heating
Last year we converted our double garage to a double height vaulted ceiling living room with underfloor heating. We've exhausted all options and the underfloor isn't sufficient to heat the room on the coldest winter days. I'm looking at solutions ahead of this winter and am interested in Infrared Heating to provide the…
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Wood burning stove 'wash' and stuff...
Hi. About to collect a gas-burning stove - a 'Yeoman Exe' - bought cheaply (that's me) on t'Bay, with a view to converting it to 'solid'. No idea yet how the current model is air-supplied - eg from underneath, or front or whatevs - but it has a conventional flue like most of the models in the range, regardless of fuel…
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Flogas rip off standing charges
We took out a new contract with Flogas for the supply of LPG
in December 2020. We had agreed a fixed price for LPG for the first 12 months
and a maximum price for the year after. A standing charge was also agreed at
22.18p per day. That standing charge was increased to 27.65p per day last
September. We have just received a…
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wood burners
Any thoughts on whether wood burners are a cheaper way of heating than gas or electric?
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Time of Use Electricity Tarriffs that are currently available
Can anyone please tell me which companies currently offer Time of Use tariffs as I want to install batteries to charge up overnight and use during the day which I will supplement with my solar panels. Also, if you know of the current rates it would also help enormously I was considering the Tesla Octopus tariff. However, I…
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£400 energy payments
We too live in a park home and get our LPG from an independent supplier, so therefore the idea of a voucher would be an excellent method. But where would we obtain a voucher? Through the local Council or Government ? .
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Under Floor Heating pump settings
Hello, My UFH has this pump: Wilo-Yonos PARA RS 25/6-RKA (see photo). It's set exactly as the photo, but the problem is that I don't know if it was set like this by the installer or by the previous owner of the flat. Some Googling made it clear that it's set to the correct side for UFH (Constant differential pressure), but…
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Wood burning stove with integrated boiler
In the process of buying an old farmhouse with 3 bedrooms. We are going to insulate well everywhere and looking at a way of heating water/radiators particularly in the winter months. We are going to install evacuated tubes and solar panels but wondering about a wood burner with integrated boiler . Has anyone any other…
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Should I change to gas?
I'm about to move house and the new property has oil heating. I've been used to having gas for the last 20 years and I'm aware of the convience so was planning to change the heating to gas. However given the latest news about blackouts and shortages I'm now wondering if its worth the risk. The property does have an open…
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The discretionary oil payment
Apologies, I'm fairly certain this question has been done to death! Do we know when the £100 discretionary payment for oil is available and how can we get it? I purchase tank full at a time, so I'm wondering how it will work? Many thanks for any clues!
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Heating oil discretionary payment
Mention made of help for householders not on the GridLike many others, I am on the Grid but have an oil system for heating and hot water as no gas in my village. Will householders like me who automatically get the £400 electricity payment also receive the discretionary oil payment? I'm a pensioner in Housing Assocation…
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Ecodan - are these COP figures correct?
Hi, Ive been keeping logs of the Consumed/Deliverable figures for a few months. At the moment I have the heating turned off (obviously) and the DMH is set to 41 degrees. This morning it shows for July 2022: Consumed: 83kWh (15 DHW; 67 Heating); Delivered: 45kWh (45 DHW; 0 Heating) DHW COP: 3Heating COP: 0Overall COP = 0.8…
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Prime Minister Truss announces help for heating oil
I need to top my tank up now, there's not much oil left. It's going to cost a thousand pounds. How/when do we get this help? Do I wait, or go ahead and top up?
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Heating Oil rebate - £100?
I have read that those who use heating oil (we do) get an extra £100 rebate from the Government. Does anyone know if this is right? And, if so, then how do we go about claiming it? We pay for our heating oil as we use it not via DD. How would the Govt know that we do use heating oil?
