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Advice / experience pls 🙏🏻 47kg gas
Hi, I’m about to move into a very small 1 bed (one up / one down) mid terrace old miners cottage out in the sticks. It’s my only choice of home and I have to move. It isn’t on mains gas and I’ve limited options. One option is 47kg gas for hot water use and poss one tiny radiator fitted in bathroom. It has a wood burning…
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Oil Tank - when to replace
Hi, I have an oil tank which I think is around 30 years old (it has certainly been there for 16 years and if is as old as the boiler then around 30 years). I was told it no longer complies with the building regs due to location and also it is single skinned rather than bunded. Is there anyone who can do a kind of MOT on a…
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Oil Boiler replacement
Hi, I am off grid for gas and have a very old oil boiler. (approx. 30 this year). A heating engineer last year said the burner was falling to bits and didn't want to repair it, it is still chugging along but makes a puttering sound nowadays and the walls of the pantry where it lives are quite dark / sooty in some places.…
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LPG tank below water table, alternatives?
Hi all, Looking for help and suggestions. We bought our rural semi-detached house 3 years ago. It was built by a small developer, group of three houses, who rented it out for a couple of years until we bought it. Was built in 2017. Heating is done by an underground LPG gas tank (Calor). We bought the house in summer but…
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Storage heater hot at top but cool at bottom
Hi, I've got two storage heaters. First thing in the morning after heating up overnight, one gets hot top and bottom but the other is hot at the top but cool at the bottom. I think that it may nott be fully heating up overnight. Elements are vertical and there's no difference in temperature left to right and so I don't…
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New oil heating advice
I literally have no clue about what I should and should not be installing so would anyone in the know be able to advise if there is anything missing from this list? Is this a good boiler? Our current boiler is around 25 years old and definitely on the way out. The warranty doesn't seem very long. We need to have the boiler…
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ECO4 Eligibility. - Joint Home Ownership
My parents in law appear to be eligible for ECO4 funding due to limited mobility and an EPC rating of E on their property. However, they are considering gifting part of the property to my wife (circa 25%) and I wonder if this is likely to affect their eligibility / likelihood of success? I’ve looked online at a lot of…
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New 47kg LPG what are you paying thread
Starting an updated what are you paying for 47kg LPG as the old one was 8 years old and mostly out of date. I'll start this one off. £57.96p flogas E Midlands Please use this thread now, Thanks
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Heating oil pricing
Can anyone explain how the heating oil supply chain works wrt prices and payments? There's obviously a long chain from a barrel of crude oil to my boiler, but I'd like to know specifically:-- At what point in time does my supplier get charged for his stock of oil? Is it when he orders it (like a domestic customer), when he…
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Avanti gas uplift fee / charge
Here’s what must be the highest charge in the UK to take away their tank £1416 + VAT!!
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Reselling of LPG gas to Park homes residential
We understand that there is no regulation from Ofgem for the reselling of LPG gas to park homes. We have recently discovered that our Park Home owner Opco Ltd has fixed a price for the gas based on a totally wrong use of the figures from an invoice which shows the cost of the LPG to them. We have highlighted the mistake…
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Is there still a market for firewood?
I live on a farm, and part of the land is approximately 10 acres of woodland. I've been collecting and processing our own firewood from here for a few years but with the recent very wet and windy weather I've got a higher number storm felled trees than usual. Very rough ball park estimate is 80-100 builders bags when…
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LPG tank regulations change
We have had our underground LPG tank for 24 years, originally installed by Shell Gas who were taken over by Avanti Gas. It is buried in our front garden with a small retaining wall which we were advised to build to prevent the earth collapsing! We have received an email advising that our tank is no longer compliant and we…
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LPG tank uplift charge
Do I have to pay for my LPG tank removal after the end of my contract? I no longer use LPG.
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homefire smokeless - anything as good that's cheaper?
i buy a bulk tonne each year, so don't want to risk having a tonne of poor quality. at the same time, if there's something just as good that is cheaper, i would rather spend less. most years it's worth buying over the summer before the autum price rise, but this year, possibly better to wait?
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Error Payment from Calor Gas
Calor Gas Uplifted tank from our new property (for free). I asked for a refund of contents £859 (their calculation) which they sent via cheque. They are now asking for the money back as say they don't give refunds for gas taken (even though presumably they resold it). Their mistake so do I need to pay it back? They said it…
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Biomass wood pellets - Have you seen the prices??
I'm shocked at the difference in wood pellets already. A year ago I bought a 65 bag pallet for £260 and now the cheapest I can find is £485. An 86% increase.... It's going to be a damn cold winter....
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Tank to House connecting pipe replacement
I am with Flogas and they are about to replace my 40 year old 2200 litre above ground tank. Whilst doing the survey it was brought to my attention that the pipe that rises out of the ground to join the tank is steel and the pipe at the house end is 15mm copper. I am told that as a medium pressure system I should get this…
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Air to air heat pump doesn't cool the house as much as an AC unit?
I am about to have an air to air heat pump installed in a room of my house, but the supplier said that in the summer it won't cool the room as much as an air conditioning unit would; in his words, the air to air heat pump will "only take the edge off" an extreme hot day, but not make the room cool. Is that correct? I…
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Switching from oil to gas heating
Hi all, I'm a first time house buyer and have recently had an offer accepted which is exciting! It's going to be a bit of a renovation project and I need some help with heating. The house is currently using oil and I'd like to change to gas. The estate agent has told me that there is gas already on the estate so it seems…
