how much heating oil will my home use???

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tori.k wrote: »

we were the same we used to use around 300l a year in our 3 bed terrace house but then we were only using 3 rads as never heated the bedrooms, heating/hot water on when needed. guess we were lucky but with no mains gas it worked out really cheap for us.

Any heating system is cheap to run if you don't use it

Toque

Don't do it! We have a Boulter Camray 5 65/90A and use 800 litres a month in the winter. Only 100 litres a month in the 3 months of summer The frightening thing is our old farmhouse is only 4 beds and 3 receptions. We only have the heating on 5-7 hours a day. We're in North East England so a bit colder. It's cheaper to buy electric oil radiators and just heat the rooms you want to use at the times you want to use them.

Cardew

Toque wrote: »

Don't do it! We have a Boulter Camray 5 65/90A and use 800 litres a month in the winter. Only 100 litres a month in the 3 months of summer The frightening thing is our old farmhouse is only 4 beds and 3 receptions. We only have the heating on 5-7 hours a day. We're in North East England so a bit colder. It's cheaper to buy electric oil radiators and just heat the rooms you want to use at the times you want to use them.

Welcome to the forum.

Using electric oil filled radiators is not cheaper than oil CH. Oil CH costs depend on the efficiency of the boiler; and of course the cost of oil. At 60p per litre the cost for most people will be 7p/kWh to 9p/kWh. Electricity is usually between 12p/kWh and 14p/kWh.

If you suggest just heating rooms with the electric oil filled radiators 'at the times you want to use them', why not switch off the CH radiators and only switch them on 'at the times you want to use them' ?

nmit1412

We have an Alpha (company now defunct) with 2 burners, one for the cooker/oven/hotplate and one for the hot water/heating. We can turn each of these on/off independently.

We get enough heat from the heating/hot water burner to heat the hotplate for simmering, slow cooking of sausages, hot water for washing up etc. without turning on the cooker side.

Also, at 8.15 each night, we kill the burner via the timeclock but leave the central heating pump going for a further 90 minutes to ensure that we get every degree of heat remaining in the boiler - the radiators stay warm for at least an hour after the burner is turned off.

We use around 2200 litres per year for a 4 bed house.

ilikecookies

Interesting thread!

5-bed house here in an exposed location. Levels of insulation are OK (double-glazed, cavity wall, loft insulation, etc) but I still think it's quite a leaky house by the nature of the fact that we have some big external walls, more windows than average, etc.

We tend to have the heating on Nov-April for 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours at night with the thermostat set at 19.5 degrees. We get through 2000-2500 litres. We make use of woodburning stoves to reduce the night time CH use.

I do feel that 2500 litres over the winter is quite a lot given that we only have the heating on for 4 hours a day. The one saving grace though is that the house does retain the heat pretty well so even when the heating is off over night the house doesn't tend to drop below 17 degrees.

jess1974

i am in Norfolk in a 3 bed old cottage, we currently use 1000 litres a year, costing around £650, i use no oil at all in the summer months, as we use our immersion to heat the water, we have an electric shower so only need water to wash up with.....

GlynD

We allow £70 per month on a DD scheme with our preferred supplier. Ours is a 3 bed bunglaow with insulated cavities, well insulated loft space and d/glazing.

rogerb

Oh dear, do I win the prize for the most heating oil on this forum - about 8,000 litres per year?
But, we have an Aga and CH boiler (it's a big old house - 12 rooms altogether) although replaced the boiler last year with a Grant condenser, which appears to be saving about 1,000 l. a year. Profligate? 'Fraid so. Thermostat is set at 21 C in the evenings. Life is too short to be cold all the time, plus we have teenagers.....
Not proud of this consumption but it does give an incentive to look at all ways to reduce energy use, and we've looked carefully at heat pumps, solar, spot electric heating, even discrete night storage powered by solar panels. There isn't a one size fits all solution but over the coming years we will surely have a mixture of several technologies - most likely is solar, air heat pump, oil and night storage. Or move to a hot country.:p

grahamc2003

I suspect the Aga is currently winning the battle between the Aga vs oil price, but I suspect the war will eventually be won by the oil price! You must have money to burn (not literally, just almost literally).

Have you looked into the rhi? A pellet stove/boiler could be one of your considerations imv.

Kat_Lowell

Informative thread.

Having an electric shower definitely helps.