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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…
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Should I order heating oil now or in two months?
Help?! We have oil fired central heating and hot water, so no Government price cap! When I ordered my last lot of oil in October last year it was 62p a litre, now its £1.20 a litre and rising. I have to order a minimum of 500 litres, £600!!! I can’t only just about afford that as a one off cost. However, in addition I…
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cheap coal link
hi,ibought a pallet for £314 tuesday and had delivered today price has just gone up to £350 from$314 might be useful to somebody i now have enough till Aurumn 2023,i also use some wood https://www.housefuel.co.uk/products/housecoal/traditional-doubles
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RHI Payments Application
Hi, We had a air-source heat pump fitted last year (May 2021) and were advised we would get around £700 annually as RHI payment. We were having some building work done at the time, so they couldn't finish the work (two radiators to be fitted in the new extension) but were told it would be finished by the end of the year,…
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Heating oil price doesn't add up?
I'm suddenly seeing heating oil quotes of 130p to 180p. If petrol is 155p including roughly 57p of duty plus 20% vat then; heating oil with 10p duty and 5% vat should be about 87p a litre. Am I working this out wrong? Or is something going on. Presumably either panic buying or is there a genuine shortage? Or are sellers…
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Bulk LPG Surcharge
I get my gas from ExtraGas (who source it from Avanti and the other main suppliers). I signed a 2 year contract with them last year which stated that the price could only increase by a maximum on 3.5p per litre every 6 months. Now when I look at my account settings, I see that they applying a 22p per litre surcharge. When…
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Solar Panels
Hi Team We have solar panels and we feed in to the tariff. The amount is around 5p per unit! How can we get more from the tariff? It seems unfair that companies can put their charges up but we can't! Keep up the good work. Regards
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No heating at the property for 5 days
Hi All, I hope you are doing well.I have a question: What in your opinion be a correct way of escalating this issue?A company called Switch2 is responsible for the heating system in the building - it's a communal heating system so there is no boilers at the property just some valves allowing the flow.I had no issues with…
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Heat pump is using far too much electricity at the moment
I think I may need to change some settings to make savings. I have hot water peak on every day. Does anyone know often should it be on to comply with legionella regulations? It is a holiday cottage. We decided to live in the cottage for a week or two to see why the pump is on so often. It hasn't always been like this. The…
