Help with LPG

snibla

Can you help?

I am looking at buying a house which has LPG supplying its heating system. There is no mains gas in the area and i am wanting to find out about the general running costs of this and any alternatives for converting this system to a more financially efficient one.
My current house runs on electric storage heaters connected to Economy 10 and so i am a virgin when it comes to other forms of heating.

squelch41

Running costs are highly variable depending on your LPG supplier.
Best thing to do is to find out if the people you are buying from are locked into a supply deal with a company and whether you would have to take that on.
if they are out of contract (usually if have been with their current supplier for more than 2 years), then find out who will supply you and how much they will charge.

http://www.uklpg.org/supplier-search/

This is presuming the tank isn't shared with anyone else.

LittleVermin

squelch41 wrote: »

Best thing to do is to find out if the people you are buying from are locked into a supply deal with a company and whether you would have to take that on.

This is presuming the tank isn't shared with anyone else.

Hi snibla,

Welcome to the forum! Please ignore some of my very recent private message, but:

Any contract is with the owner/tenant - not with the property ... so you start a new contract. You can use a different supplier (lots of info on switching - see suppliers' websites you'll get from the results of the link squelch41 gave you). It can take up to 28 days to switch suppliers.

The present owners can tell you their annual LPG costs, surely? Ask the price they pay, too, and to which supplier! They might let you see their contract too (if I was trying to sell I would!) and then you can compare it with info on the Bulk LPG - Cheapest supplier / supply route? thread.

You can get comparitive costs from http://www.nottenergy.com/energy-costs-comparison3 You'll need to put in up-to-date and appropriate figures.

If the property is on a metered estate then you are tied into the LPG supplier for the estate. If this is the case I'd strongly recommend talking to the other people on the estate before signing any contract - or you may lock them in too for the duration of your new contract (up to - and usually - 2 years).

sk240

snibla wrote: »

Can you help?

I am looking at buying a house which has LPG supplying its heating system. There is no mains gas in the area and i am wanting to find out about the general running costs of this and any alternatives for converting this system to a more financially efficient one.
My current house runs on electric storage heaters connected to Economy 10 and so i am a virgin when it comes to other forms of heating.

Hi,

Running an LPG central heating system is comparible with electric heating.
Personally i live in a 2 bedroon mobile home, in that cold weather we had before christmas i got through £125 worth of gas.
If you can i would go with a house on mains gas, as your costs would be about half that.