LPG, heating oil, solid & other fuels

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

Does anyone know if you can top up your biomass meter to beat the 1st April increase?

Hello everyone In April I had my old storage heaters took out on the eco gov grant scheme in my rental property. This winter was the first time trying it out. They replaced the storage heaters in bedroom with 1 khw heaters and they took the two storage heaters out the living room and replaced with one elnur hhr20 (I was…

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?! 

We signed a new (continuing) contract at the end of last summer to retain our price of LPG with our supplier at 42ppl. In October we received a letter saying we need to pay 10ppl surcharge due to the rising cost of fuel. Can our supplier do this? We are tied to the one supplier unfortunately due to where our tank was put…

Hello, Our house currently relies on a couple of storage heaters and a large log burner, we are hoping to have a heating system installed in the next few months. We already got quotes for oil (we have no gas here and heat pumps are unsuitable) but I've got a few companies coming in to quote for biomass in the next few…