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Fuels4U
I ordered some New Flame (smokeless solid fuel, low ash, high heat) from the above at the end of 2017. It turned up at the beginning of 2018 but was definitely not New Flame. I complained and despite being told I would receive an uplift I have just had it replaced with more New Flame. This is apparently a new batch they…
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LPG price hikes, what are my rights?
I have just received my third letter from Flogas in the last six months informing me of yet another price increase. Since 2016 the cost per unit has nearly doubled and is now over 202p per cubic metre! My bulk lpg tank is shared with three other houses. Is it possible to change suppliers? Will a new supplier take in the…
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Rayburn heating options
Hi, I currently have a solid fuel Stanley range that provides cooking (well) and hot water and central heating (badly) Its coming to the end of its life, and we are getting sick of lugging buckets of anthracite into the house, so want to change system. My initial idea was to get a rayburn 480K or similar to do everything,…
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Heating efficiency (stove vs open fire)
Hi Folks, I have been researching the potential for investing in a new heating system. I currently have an oil fired boiler and I use my open fire in the winter months if the temp dips to single figures. The open fire has an old back boiler which heats my water tank. My fuel bill is £550 a year for oil, and £220 for wood /…
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Whats the most economically way of using oil heating?
We've rented several house now, all with all heating yet we seem to go through it quite quickly. We always get the boilers serviced once per year so its not an issue with the boiler. For example, we got 500 litres of oil start of November, it's now done. The way we use out heat is it comes on 30 mins in the morning and at…
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Coal for free
We have two tonnes of anthracity grains to basically get rid of, if anyone is interested contact me
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First Utility
After being with them a few year without any issues I now find their customer service is probably one of the worst Ive come across I moved house in August,I had built up a credit of over £200 which they sent to me when I moved.The house I moved to was similar so the agreed to maintain my Monthly DD at £64.I have since…
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Npower problems.
Hi all. Looking for a bit of advice. I'll try to keep it short. I had a previously tenanted house that has stood empty for over 6 years. The tenant had gas and electric pre-paid meters installed without my knowledge. He did an overnight flit and it has stood empty except when squatters got in but they did not stay. I sold…
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Electric, controllable, reasonably priced heat?
Hi all, I have a 2 bedroom maisonette flat (over 2 floors). There is currently Kalirel electric heating installed - like Rointe, as far as I can tell - which has a programmable system with zones and a remote. A few of the radiators no longer work properly, and as Kalirel went into administration years ago, no replacement…
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How to determine the oil type
We moved into our house a few months ago and the oil tank has slowly been going down. It's currently on 3/8ths of a tank so there's no urgency but we wanted to work out what we need to do when it comes to refilling and we realised we don't actually know what type of oil we need to buy. We understand that there are two main…
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Gas meter Imperial or metric
I,ve been giving my meter readings online to the supplier today and it got me thinking, how do they know that I have an imperial gas meter for which every unit is 1 cubic foot of gas as opposed to a cubic metre of gas which is considerably more. So as I give the readings in units ie this month it was 819 as opposed to the…
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Location of LPG Bottles
Please can anyone advise on where LPG bottled gas can be sited?. My neighbour has installed LPG central heating using bottled gas. The LPG bottles are located in their garden next to the fence that is the boundary between my garden and theirs. The whole set up doesn't look very stable, the pipe connection from the top of…
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Oil fired boiler in empty house
We viewed a house yesterday which has been unoccupied for a while. The estate agent couldn't give me exact timescales but I think over a year. The house uses an oil fired boiler, which I have never had before. I've always been connected to mains gas. I don't think the boiler was turned on, as there was no hot water. The…
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Electric Heating Help
Hi I’ve recently moved into a new flat and it’s got electric storage heaters (I’m renting so no option to change). By the heaters there are 3 switches (remote spaces to see photo). I’m under the impression that the two on the left are for the day and night power, but does anyone know what the switch on the right does?…
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Electromax efficiency question
Hi all, I own an electromax electric boiler. According to its datasheet It has "99.8% boiler efficiency and integrated economy controller" However further down, in the same document there is: Seasonal space heating energy efficiency class D Seasonal space heating energy efficiency (%) 37 My question is, out of every 1 kwh…
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External oil boiler recommendations
Hi all, Would anyone here recommend a particular external oil boiler and why ? Ta.
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Are we saving oil by not heating upstairs when downstairs is on?
Hello We usually have the oil heating on downstairs and only put it on upstairs a few hours before going to bed. Are we saving oil by not heating upstairs when downstairs is on? (sorry this probably sounds silly question lol) Hope I'm making sense. Joe
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Lack of warm water?
Curious about this folks as never had this issue in any other the previous 4 houses we've lived in. Basically, our heat comes on 1hr in morning, 2 hrs at night, it also heats the water at the same time. Now for example, my son had a bath last night after the heat came on, I went for a shower this morning after the heat…
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Electric heating for small house?
Hello I've just bought a very small one bedroom cottage which I'm planning on doing as a holiday let. There's no central heating but it has a multifuel stove in the living room. I want to put heating in, and was thinking of putting in smart electric radiators. They are very thin so won't take up much space, I can operate…
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controllable heating!
Hi, i live in a 2 bed semi, only have electricity and have storage heaters fitted, however they are over 30yrs old and most of them have stopped working now. I have temporarily replaced some with Dimplex Eco radiators until i can find a electric heating system that is both energy efficient and that i can control remotely,…
