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Please recommend oil filled or electric heater

angelphace · 2013-12-05 16:20:54

Hi, We recently moved to a very old and large farmhouse (5300 sq ft), which is proving very difficult to heat. We have an old heating system which is fuelled by an oil boiler, which is very costly to run and doesn't work well in some parts of the house. There are actually only a few rooms that we use on a regular basis and…

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macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite

7 December 2013 at 12:31AM

But those 4 convectors will heat 4 rooms and output 8kW at peak. Your oil CH probably outputs at least 3 times that, and is heating (or trying to heat) 20 rooms. You are not comparing like with like. On a kW for kW comparison, the oil CH is cheaper.

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