electric radiators/oil fired/lpg options

prettyflamingo

Hi all,
we are currently considering buying a house which is in a rural location. it currently only has storage heaters in each room, and an open fire with a back boiler. it has 3 bedrooms and two main rooms downstairs.
having looked at oil fired central heating on this forum it looks to be fairly expensive to run (and i havent even looked into setup costs yet). someone has also mentioned LPG as another option.
I have found these http://www.eliteheaters.co.uk/Independent%20Water%20Filled%20Radiators.html and was wondering whether anyone has any experience of these? are they more efficient than running Oil fired?
can anyone advise or simply give their experience as to which option would be the best to go for, and if possible any figures you could come up with would be brilliant. i am going to trawl through all of the threads on this forum now too!
thanks

Cardew

You need to look at the hundreds of posts on this subject.

All electric heaters produce exactly the same amount of heat for the same running cost. So that applies to those radiators in the link you gave costing £300 to £400, a £10 heater from Argos(yes really ten pounds) or radiators costing £1000(yes really one thousand pounds). That is a fact - not an opinion. Also any electrical heating on a single tariff is the most expensive form of heating in UK.

Storage heating on an Economy 7 tariff is much cheaper because the majority of your heating and hot water is from cheap off-peak electricity. However there are drawbacks to storage heating and I suggest you read the hundreds of posts on that issue.

Certainly oil fired heating is expensive to install - severall thousand pounds - and oil prices are volatile. Currently it is considerably cheaper than electric heating on a single rate tariff, but more than storage heating on an Economy 7 tariff.