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How many PV panels to keep a thermal store topped up with no use?
Just thinking aloud. Exploring bio-mass for a house that is often left unoccupied for a couple of weeks - sometimes even a couple of months - at a time. Biomass is usually used via a thermal store, and this has the benefit of being able to have other sources of heat added to it - solar heat panels, PVs via an immersion,…
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Oil prices
What’s everyone’s view on oil prices continuing to go up ? I know we all need a crystal ball 😫 we are getting really low on heating oil , normally we would hang on for another month or so for prices to come down. The price is ridiculous at the moment, we just don’t know what to do?!
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Solar Power installation with Battery - Is it really worth ?
Dear all, Hope everyone is doing fine. With rising energy costs, i was wondering if i should do a solar power installation with Tesla powerwall as the battery. It's a terraced property / freehold. Area - London By the looks of it, the house is 100 years old. Property will defintely need rewiring and roof tile replacement…
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ASHP v oil as of April 22
With the price of electricity going up in April and again in
October is it financially variable to be able to run an ASHP cheaper than an oil central
heating system without any aid from solar or battery back ups? I have to have a new central heating system installed and
its going to have to be either ASHP or oil but even…
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Where does biomass (pellets) fit in cost-wise now?
Hi. Bro currently has an old oil boiler which will undoubtedly need replacing before too long. A&GSHPs are not an option due to the age of the house, and the cost of bringing insulation levels up beyond what he currently has - loft and cavity. He hates the 'idea' of oil, and also obviously the cost. So, where would a…
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Hydrogen gas / heating pump / solar panels
Hello, I've started to explore alternative energy and looked at hydrogen gas and heat pumps. They're hydrogen gas boilers on the market for the same price as natural gas ones, using the same principle. Would a hydrogen gas generator be enough to produce what we need for home ?! Heat pumps would involve a bigger investment…
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18th Century Cottage. Listed Building. Conservation Area. No Garden. No Mains Gas
Ok so I've had a good read through the threads on here and in a nutshell here is our issue: We've just had a final bill from our old (now gone into administration) energy supplier for 3 weeks over Xmas and that was at the old fixed rates. £300. We've now been moved to a new supplier at twice the price and that's before the…
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How can we compare prices
We have oil central heating at our home. We are advised to compare prices, but those companies who provide oil in our area of Wales won't quote any prices. Certas Energy, which has consistently been cheaper than any other company, used to charge you at the price of oil on the day you order. Now they take your order, but…
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Central Heating Oil prices...
Last week, I bought 500 liters at a cost of £381 (76.2p/liter) Today, looking for oil for mum, the cheapest I could find oil was 500 liters for £740 (£1.48/liter) Now, that's a 94% rise in one week.(Northern Ireland has the highest rate of oil usage for heating in Western Europe for historical reasons)Are we now just…
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New boiler - Air source heat pump vs mains gas - future proofing
We need to replace our hopelessly inefficient old gas boiler - it's probably about 50 years old. We are on mains gas, so I know that it would likely be cheaper to get a new condensing boiler, but with gas prices rising and pressure on the government to meet environmental targets I'm wondering whether it makes sense to put…
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Oil boiler grants
Hey guys, we’ve just moved into a new property and it has an old oil boiler. The boiler is over 20 years old and it’s costing us a lot of money to run. Does anyone know if there is any oil boiler grants available to replace with a more efficient oil boiler?
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£1,500 to cap Gas supply I don't need!
Help please, I moved into a bungalow which has a gas and electric mains supply. I haven't used gas and have installed a Air Source Heat Pump, so will never use gas again. The Energy supplier wants to charge me for the gas standing charges or I have to pay £1,500 to have the Gas supply capped off in the road. This is…
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Biomass Top Up
Does anyone know if you can top up your biomass meter to beat the 1st April increase?
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Oil central heating
Hello :) I know this is going to be a “how long is a piece of string” question…but I’m hoping someone is able to give me an idea. I’m currently in the process of purchasing a house. It’s a 3 bed detached with double garage and two lounges. It isn’t on the main gas line so the current owners have an oil tank which services…
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Neighbours heating puts out massive amounts of steam and smoke.
Hi. house 3 doors away from me got rid of there old oil fired boiler and tank etc, and had what I assume is a heat pump installed. I have to say, what they actually do doesn't really bother me, as I say they are not my direct neighbours. but I've just walked along past there house to the post box , and the amount of steam…
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LPG - Switching suppliers
Hi there, just looking for your thoughts. I moved LPG suppliers about 3 months ago. I have just return from holiday and found that the old supplier had filled my LPG tank up whilst away, but it was for a different account number on the delivery note - not mine. Just thinking about what to do here. The obvious think to do…
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Immersion for hot water vs heating oil boiler
Hi! Looking for some opinions here please.... With the price of heating oil having risen exponentially, we are considering buying an immersion timer and using that to heat our hot water twice daily. This would be instead of using the oil based boiler to heat the water. We wouldn't have considered this previously due to the…
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could this be cheaper than using oil now?
Hi, oil central heating - have enough until the summer (I hope) - thanks to wife's canny purchasing (boiler juice) when they had offers. We are always needing to be careful and only put the heating on when we really need it (with a max temperature of 16C), staying in kitchen if something in oven, two fleeces, blanket handy…
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Boiler house condensing boiler-any advice as regards brands?
Hi folks, Was told that this post is more suitable for this forum, rather than "In my Home" forum I'm in the initial stages of researching an oil filled boiler house condensing boiler to replace an old 30 year cast iron boiler (burner was replaced about 20 years ago) all working well at the moment, but as I understand it,…
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Ecovisionsystems solar panels
We have solar panels owned by the above who rent the roof space giving us partial free electricity , we were contacted by them before last Christmas regarding the panels not working , they sent an engineer last month who found they stopped working in wet weather and wouldn't start working again until the connections had…
