LPG Central Heating

dullnote

All I can say is my own experience, the LPG cost me £166 a month an my house was never really warm during cold months, at this time of year would have it on for 4 hours cost me just under £4. A couple of years ago with really cold winter it cost me £13 a day.

My new ASHP cost me about £1.5 a day but the house is roasting walking about in tee shirt, still need to fine tune. How it performs during rally cold time, time will tell.

Friend has oil and he is okay with the cost, although more expensive than town gas

Don't know why they are pushing LPG, but be careful, make sure the company is looking after your best interest not there's.

From the energy saving site, cost for LPG 8.17p per KWh oil only 5.87p

Sorry if this is not helping you only trying to point out my situation please lie me know what you go for

Dullnote

fishybusiness

Thanks for the info, just had a look at the price comparison on the Energy Saving site, they are different to the prices I have been quoted. Their price for LPG is the current bottled price.

I've done some calcs.....

Current price of a 47kg bottle is £55 where I live, which is 60p a litre, 8.46p per kWh.

Oil is 60p per litre, 6p per kWh.

Looking at bulk lpg at 48.9p per litre, that's 6.9p per kWh.

The calcs based on current prices show it be 15% more expensive to run than oil.

Bottled LPG comes out at 41% more expensive to run - that's the scary number.

Doesn't seem that bad now I've worked through the numbers.

It is still surprising that Warmfront won't install a tank, although I'm grateful to be getting a heating system installed before the grants run out in April next year

dullnote

Good luck with whatever system you go with, one thing for sure is no matter what you put in the energy costs will go up.

This is now a fact of life

Dullnote

fishybusiness

Well, after a 30 minutes hold on the Warmfront phone, they have agreed to install oil fired central heating.

So, there you go, if Warmfront offer LPG heating, and you would like oil instead, question the decision.

Very happy

dullnote

Hi I think in the long term to 30min wait will have been a good thing, good luck with your project

Dull note

imtjmj

fishybusiness wrote: »

Ok, so today Warmfront have been over and said they can install LPG central heating plus 5 radiators. All good so far, the sting is the supply of LPG.

They can supply 47Kg bottles, which is great for a start, but I'd rather go bulk buy and have a tank in the garden. I don't know the cost difference but I bet it is significant.

Does anyone know how it works - do I have to buy a tank, do I rent one, who do I talk to?

Call calor gas or flo gas, but you will have to have building regs. Call them and they will tell you all about it.