Help! LPG Bulk Heating prices?

Sammyantha

Following on from my last thread I am now seriously concerned!

We recently moved to a 1 bed flat (1 bed, living room, bathroom, kitchen), located above a separate 2 bed flat. The flats are inside a barn conversion attached to a large farm.

Our heating is supplied by a bulk LPG calor gas tank outside (1200 litre size), and downstairs has heating and hot water off it.

Landlord has had £100 off us already for having the tank filled up in September (we moved here on 8th Nov), and now wants another £120 for having just had it filled up again.

Price according to Calor is 47.9ppl.

We were advised by landlord on moving here, that price for gas would be roughly £35 per month. Now thinking that was an outright lie to get us in

Help! Is this normal???

What are the average monthly costs of LPG heating for a 1 bed flat?

spiro

Do you all have seperate meters? If not how is the landlord splitting the cost? If there is then read it every week yourself to see what you are using. For gas and elec the landlord can not make a profit when he supplies you, not sure about LPG.

frankie

Sammyantha wrote: »

Following on from my last thread I am now seriously concerned!

What are the average monthly costs of LPG heating for a 1 bed flat?

Hi

Try reposting on the lpg and other heating thread. There are many more lpg users reading on there and you may get a better response.

Good luck

Sammyantha

spiro wrote: »

Do you all have seperate meters? If not how is the landlord splitting the cost? If there is then read it every week yourself to see what you are using. For gas and elec the landlord can not make a profit when he supplies you, not sure about LPG.

No. The landlord's house is not connected to the tank at all, but the flat downstairs and ourselves share it. There is no separate meter. Landlord splits it based on floor plan - downstairs is bigger so he pays 63% of the bill, and we pay the rest.

spiro

Sammyantha wrote: »

No. The landlord's house is not connected to the tank at all, but the flat downstairs and ourselves share it. There is no separate meter. Landlord splits it based on floor plan - downstairs is bigger so he pays 63% of the bill, and we pay the rest.

So they have there heating on 24/7, you have it on a couple of hours per day that would not work out at 63%/37% would it. If you are planning to be there any length of time I would find out about have a 2nd meter installed.

Sammyantha

spiro wrote: »

So they have there heating on 24/7, you have it on a couple of hours per day that would not work out at 63%/37% would it. If you are planning to be there any length of time I would find out about have a 2nd meter installed.

This would cost thousands

spiro

Sammyantha wrote: »

This would cost thousands

Thousands for a meter :eek: About £70 for the meter plus the cost of fitting (couple of hundred max?).

Sammyantha

No so as we spoke to Calor and they said something about moving pipes??? Also, as we are connected to the chap downstairs, we would need a new boiler, then all the pipes and plumbing re-routed etc, which comes into the thousands

spiro

Sammyantha wrote: »

No so as we spoke to Calor and they said something about moving pipes??? Also, as we are connected to the chap downstairs, we would need a new boiler, then all the pipes and plumbing re-routed etc, which comes into the thousands

Are you saying the 2 flats share 1 boiler? If so I would get out of there asap as you spending is controlled by another person over whom you have no control.

Sammyantha

Yeah basically. The boiler is downstairs in the garage and both flats share it. I think it's more likely that we will use the gas up rather than the chap downstairs who is hardly ever in. Either way, it's not a very fair situation. We don't want to move from here unless there really is no other way around this problem. The place is amazing location wise, I've just moved my cats in and they're happy now, we've unpacked and gotten settled etc etc. What we really need to do is speak with the landlords and appeal to their better nature. But before we do so, I would rather head in there with some facts, i.e. how much does this type of heating normally cost per month for a 1 bed flat? Has anyone been in this exact or similar situation before and can advise? Does it sounds from an outside perspective like we're being fiddled? Am I missing part of the big picture somewhere? and so on.

Sharing the boiler is not so much of an issue because as stated above, the chap downstairs doesn't really use that much, and nor do we tbh. If we were simply on the "milk round" and topped up as and when needed, then both of us would be paying a more manageable amount. But as the landlord has (apparently) allowed the tank to be run dry, then taken it upon themselves to fill it, and bill US for that, possibly with another similar bill next month, it's just extortionate

Still not managed to get anywhere with the legalities as we had citizen's advice booked for this afternoon and they canceled on us grr. Just avoiding talking to landlord atm until I feel more ready.