LPG, OIL versus wood burner

gteuk

Here is where I get slated and say go electric,

The future is electric as it can be renewed, the latest feed-in tariffs from april 2010 will make it viable where it is said you will get 36.5p for everything you generate and upto 5p extra for electricity you export (overgenerate)

This now means you can run your household with as little as 6 panels your roof and could heat your home with 9-12 panels based on a standard house.

Improve your insulation or in a newbuild you could power your home and heating with only 6 panels.

The average 1kw will generate between 800kwh - 1200kwh a year giving you a generation revenue of £292 - £438 plus you have used 800-1200 units or exported to the grid meaning based on 12p per kwh £96 - £144

If you are energy concious and have as many energy saving devices as possible then you would have no running costs.

There is an article on this but I am not allowed to post links so type in underfloor heating viable in google and look at the article on articlebase dot com

wilkieone

OK,
wood furnaces, are these any good? do they work?
settled on a wood stove for the living room, but still need to cook and heat the water/house.
i go away sometimes for up to a week, so i want something that is not running/costing me while away, but something simple to turn on when i get home?
would or could a wood furnace do that?

poly1

Hi wilkieone, you don't say where in the country you are but your LPG cylinders seem much too expensive. I have just been on the phone again because my cylinders have run out and been playing one against the other and got a price of £43 a cylinder which seems a little more resonable. Have you just stayed with one gas company or have you tried phoning round for quotes?

nesssie1702

We use LPG for cooking with and oil for heating and hot water. One 47 kg tank of Gas has lasted us over 2 and a half years for a 4 ring gas hob. A replacement cylinder would be around the £80 mark, so works out at £30 a year for it.

wilkieone

Hi Poly1,
i am in Hertfordshire. costs range from £58 - 85 per 47 kg tank. now thinking of a bulk tank. i live 2 meters away from a river, yes very close! and i am now told there may be issues with having an oil cylinder that close!!
I give up!

welda

wilkieone wrote: »

i live 2 meters away from a river, yes very close! and i am now told there may be issues with having an oil cylinder that close!!
I give up!

Eviromental Agency will have issues with oil tank so close to a river, however, you should get around this if you install a bunded oil tank, more expensive, but should cover the regs?

Cheers.....

wilkieone

Hi Welda
you are right, they do not even want a bunded tank that close!
never buy a house next to a river!

welda

I actually have a river less than a stone throw from my front door. When I first moved in here over 20 years ago, my already inherited oil tank was at rear of house, still cause for concern by SEPA standards.

Bund was solid concrete base, breeze block built around. I eventually made a single skin tank from 16swg stainless steel, no bund at all. I now have mains gas, fortunately no more oil issues with cost ect. Personally if you want oil for heating, I would challenge the powers at be for not allowing a bunded tank to be situated close to a river, after all, there are oil tankers motoring up and down our estuaries!!

gratefulforhelp_2

We have put oil central heating in and a wood burner. Wood is not that cheap, but cheaper than oil or lpg. Biggish house and so one woodburner won't heat all of it, but certainly takes the chill off in spring and autumn. You will want to turn aga down or off in a hot summer (?!)

navig8r

welda wrote: »

Eviromental Agency will have issues with oil tank so close to a river, however, you should get around this if you install a bunded oil tank, more expensive, but should cover the regs?

Cheers.....

My Son has done a conversion on a listed barn which is on the banks of a river and had no problem having oil CH with a bunded tank.
g8r