New house needs heating system

loki

Hi all,
Great place and some of the best answers I have ever seen.

I have bought a 500 yr old cottage which is listed as Grade II. Currently has night storage which I would like to remove and replace with an efficient heating system.
The house is wired for electric but not gas or oil.

I am starting with a blank canvas of sorts so my question is this:

What system should I look to install - including Hot Water system please?

1) I could build an oil system and place a tank in the back of the house, but it would be a nightmare to find a suitable place and hide it from view unless at the bottom of the garden, then filling would be impossible unless they rana hose through the house.
2) Electric - no clues
3) Gas - I could build a gas bottle system and hide the bottles in a storage unit out back (easier than oil of course).

What would you do to get an efficient system in place and "future proof" rising costs?

I am open to all suggestions because I am tearing my hair out trying to work it all out.



I should say that the cottage is a mid terrace (thatched cottages either side), has three bedrooms, open plan kitchen diner, enclosed sitting room (open fireplace). main bathroom upstairs (or will be).


Thank you so much in advance!!!!

Best regards to you all regardless of whether you can help me. :beer:

Martin

G_M

loki wrote: »

The house is wired for electric but not gas or oil.

I am starting with a blank canvas of sorts so my question is this:

1) I could build an oil system and place a tank in the back of the house, but it would be a nightmare to find a suitable place and hide it from view unless at the bottom of the garden, then filling would be impossible unless they rana hose through the house.no supplier will run a hose through the house. Illegal. I have an oil tank and once you're used to I don't find it ugly. Can you put a tank out front? Plant round it and you'll hardly know.
2) Electric - no clues
3) Gas - I could build a gas bottle system and hide the bottles in a storage unit out back (easier than oil of course).Gas bottles are VERY expensive. Don't do it!

What would you do to get an efficient system in place and "future proof" rising costs? consider air or ground source heat pump? Or pv panels for electricity?

I should say that the cottage is a mid terrace (thatched cottages either side), has three bedrooms, open plan kitchen diner, enclosed sitting room (open fireplace). main bathroom upstairs (or will be).

Martin

Solar or pv panels may be undesirable (or even impossible) on a thatch roof, and renewable sources can be expensive to install, but long term they make sense.
I've considered them periodically but it makes no economic sense to convert. In your case, working from scratch, it may make more sense as you have to spend capital whatever system you go for.

loki

Thank you both for your input. Thanks also for the messages!

I am going to go and visit the Local Authority Conservation officer and see if "he" can help us with ideas as any alterations will need his seal of approval anyway.
He will have come across this before.

I think I am going to have very little option other than an electric system.

No one in the village has gas, it's all electric or oil "kerosene".

Solar panels are out. Grade II will prohibit their use.