No Mains Gas and We're COLD!!!!

gingernutbizkit

Hi,

I really need some advice. We have moved into a house with no mains gas in the road and need to know how to heat it with a new system.

Currently there is a wood burner with back boiler and immersion installed but we cannot use this - we foster children and due to the kids we are caring for at the moment lighting fires isn't an option.

So, which way do we go that will be reasonable to put in and cheap to run?

LPG?
Calor Gas?
Electric Boiler?


Oh, how I miss my old house with it's electric combi :rotfl:.

TIA, Ging x

highrisklowreturn

How does fostering kids prevent you using a fire? Do you think they'll mess with it?

LittleVermin

gingernutbizkit wrote: »

Hi,

I really need some advice. We have moved into a house with no mains gas in the road and need to know how to heat it with a new system.

.................

So, which way do we go that will be reasonable to put in and cheap to run?

LPG?
Calor Gas?
Electric Boiler?


Oh, how I miss my old house with it's electric combi :rotfl:.

TIA, Ging x

This thread - "Starting again with heating" - should provide some answers. But you've probably already read it!

Starts here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=39753008&postcount=1

I think there are some other recent 'dead' threads too with a very similar question!

You can get running costs here - (it's for Nottingham so you'll need to put in your local figures).

Good luck!

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gingernutbizkit

highrisklowreturn wrote: »

How does fostering kids prevent you using a fire? Do you think they'll mess with it?

Yes, basically!

G_M

What was the plan when you decided to move in? I assume you realised there was no gas before you bought/rented the property?

LittleVermin

Ging - here's another thread with some useful info (don't necessarily go by the thread title!):

lpg heating - keep it or ditch it https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/42751936#Comment_42751936

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If you want some heat urgently it'll have to be full price electric, I guess. You'll find some makes - and models - recommended in the "Anyone used Rointe heaters?" thread. Cardew has sound advice on electrical heating (he's a chartered electrical engineer). Look back through the thread and you'll find the pros and cons of different types of electrical heaters discussed. I'd avoid the overpriced self-styled 'economical' ones from the likes of Rointe, Redwall, Economical Radiator Company, etc: lots of sciencey babble on their websites (they get taken to the Advertising Standards Authority, lose - then rewrite their spiel, but it's still misleading tosh). All electrical heaters are 100% efficient at converting electricity into heat.

Bottle gas heaters produce lots of water vapour - which ends up as condensation. (LPG + oxygen -> carbon dioxide + water. End of science lesson!)

suki1964

Unless the kids have learning/behavioural difficulties theres no reason to not have the stove lit. Buy a good fire guard - a sturdy one that wont topple and that will cover the stove if you have any concerns at all. I was very scared that my grandson would get hurt he as was only a toddler when we had it installed but he never once has got that close to it. Hes been told hes not to touch that its burny and he knows what that means. Hes five now and although I dont leave him playing unsupervised when the stove it lit - Im pretty confident he wont mess with it

highrisklowreturn

Yes this isn't soviet russia remember - oh for the good old days of a snowy 1990/1991 when as a 7 or 8 year old I kept barging my mother to let me warm my hands at the fire, before exiting to reignite an epic snowball contest on the woodvale - then got a swipe to the head for annoying her too many times.