How much LPG should I be using?

likespizza

We've been in our new house 8 weeks and have spent as much on LPG for heating and hot water as we spent on mains gas for the whole year at our last place.

I know LPG is expensive but we suspect there's something wrong with the boiler and/or heating controls. It would be helpful to find out if this kind of usage is reasonable before we go calling someone out to look for problems in the system.

I know there are lots of variables, but can someone give me a rough idea of reasonable gas usage. We have a 2000l tank, and in the last 7-8 weeks have used 40%. It's a 3 bed well insulated bungalow and we have the heating on roughly 3hours in the morning, and 5.5 hours in the evening (heating about 70% of the rooms). We don't use an awful lot of hot water. Any kind of ball park figures would be helpful, we don't know where to start.

david29dpo

I have my tank filled mid december with 1250 litres. This lasts till mid/late feb so lets say 9 weeks. Sounds ok to me. My feb filling last till december (hot water only in the sumer plus some heating)

jamesn_2

In our 4 bed detached we were getting through about 200 litres a week during this winter (heating, hot water and oven). That's with a new combi boiler.

frankie

I had my 1200 lt tank topped up last June. Just had another top up to 87% and it took 750 lt.

Mind you I'm a bit tight fisted and don't use it for cooking. Hot water and heating only.

likespizza

Thanks everyone, that's really helpful, we had nothing to go on. It looks like we are using a reasonable amount of gas. Cheers.