Ball park costs

Lleucu

Hi, I am trying to get my head round this installation and before I start talking to installers, wondered about the approx costs.

The house is a stone end terrace with storage heaters and a multi fuel burner with lined chimney. It is about 200 metres from the sea.

What I was thinking about was oil (it is off the gas grid) central heating plus a parkray or similar with the two linked, and solar panels linked also.

Excluding the cost of the solar panels, how much do you think it will cost?

And does anybody have experience of installation and the two systems working together. I guess a combi oil is out and it will need a dreaded hot tank too.

PS the cottage was horribly updated in 2010 and it is well insulated incl walls and floors double glazed and loft well insulated too.

muckybutt

Wow that's not going to be cheap !

Seeing as you are looking to install solar, why not look at a pellet boiler rather than a parkray ? that way get the rhi payments to help with the install payback.

We have at the moment a multi fuel with boiler on which cost us £1100...mates rates, we are building an extension later this year and are installing in that a pellet stove / boiler price for the install / commissioning there is £5800, all we have to do then is link the two systems with a H2 panel and a bit of jiggery with the pipework and tank so roughly another £1000 on top and that should give us pressurised hot water and full central heating in both properties, the pellet backing our old part up when the stove isn't lit.

If you are having the solar then you will have an accumulator I presume which makes linking them all together a bit easier I believe.

Lleucu

Thanks it was the idea of using all the heat from the multi room heater as efficiently as possible which started me thinking (as I watched the heat coming out of the chimney). Pellet stoves good but not so cosy to sit in front of watching Casualty or Pobol y Cwm. (Welsh soap). I then remembered visiting many older residents of the old council bungalows in the 70s who used to sit cosily in front of their Parkrays burning their free Coal Board coal. So a mixture of nostalgia, future proofing, eco awareness and pragmatism.

I then stumbled across a website which claimed it was easy to link the Parkray or similar with an oil CH system.

Will continue my research with your comments as a pointer.

alleycat`

Nothing to add about the heating side but i'm amazed they still make Pobol y Cwm!

I used to watch it when i lived in Aberystwyth more than a decade ago.

Not that i can speak more than 4 words of welsh.

No C5 and S4C, ah it takes me back..

Cardew

Lleucu wrote: »

I then stumbled across a website which claimed it was easy to link the Parkray or similar with an oil CH system.

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It is not easy(or cheap) to combine a solid fuel heater to a conventional oil/gas/LPG CH system.

You need to get something like a Dunsley Neutralizer

http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/neutralizer.html

Lleucu

i'm amazed they still make Pobol y Cwm!

Not only made but I believe sold to Brazil and Russia as well as popular with our forces abroad. House in question is 8 miles from Aber ar lan y mor, mae'r mor Celtaidd iawn (it is a very Celtic sea).


Greetings from Aber.:D

muckybutt

Cardew wrote: »

Lleucu wrote: »

I then stumbled across a website which claimed it was easy to link the Parkray or similar with an oil CH system.

QUOTE]

It is not easy(or cheap) to combine a solid fuel heater to a conventional oil/gas/LPG CH system.

You need to get something like a Dunsley Neutralizer

http://www.dunsleyheat.co.uk/neutralizer.html

The H* panels are supposedly a lot better, although two solid fuelled appliances it would be a H4 panel http://www.h2panel.co.uk/