oil heating use

hugh_500

Hi


we just move in to a 4 bed detached house and would like to know what a average oil usage would be as we kept the heating low and on timer but still go though 1000L in 4 weeks is this normal ?


many thanks for you help

reeac

Plenty of replies on the other thread and generally your quoted consumption looks very high even for a genuine Winter month. I'm intrigued that your almost identical post on that other thread specifies a different number of bedrooms although what's more important is the level of insulation of the house.

marty2be2000

I live in a 2 bed house (semi detached) of brick/flint construction, the oil heating is on 24/7 from the start of November to April/May and my annual usage is about 900 litres. All year round the boiler also runs every morning to heat up the hot water.

My house internal temperature is 19c, during the winter months the boiler fires for about 5 mins every 1/2 hour or so.

The house also has a lot of glass, so if the sun is shining and strong enough then the heat generated through the glass can often mean the boiler does not run for several hours each day.

I have my 1200 litre tank filled up in October, and can get through to the following October on just the one fill.

comeandgo

We have 4 bed detached house with timber frame build in rural North scotland, so very cold winters, have two oil fills a year,(1,200litres)the fill end of November lasts as long as it lasts depending on how low temps are but I'd look at refilling about Feb though will be March this year, and the second fills lasts until Nov. I'd say your consumption is excessive. Our heating is not on low, it's 20 at all times and the oil heats our water.

Ebe_Scrooge

comeandgo wrote: »

We have 4 bed detached house with timber frame build in rural North scotland, so very cold winters, have two oil fills a year,(1,200litres)the fill end of November lasts as long as it lasts depending on how low temps are but I'd look at refilling about Feb though will be March this year, and the second fills lasts until Nov. I'd say your consumption is excessive. Our heating is not on low, it's 20 at all times and the oil heats our water.

I'm very similar to you - 5 bed house in rural Perthshire, similar pattern of heating / water usage, 2 and a bit fills of a 1200 litre tank per year on average. If the OP is getting through 1000 litres a month that sounds very high - I'd suggest they look at their levels of insulation.

thenudeone

1000 l in a month seems very high for a relatively mild winter month even for a large uninsulated property.

Check the insulation - there may be funds available to provide free insulation in some cases, even if you aren't on a low income.

And if you are planning on being in the property for some years - get an air source heat pump or a biomass boiler. The government RHI payments could pay for the installation costs within 7 years, depending on what the calculated heat requirements are.

captainhindsight_2

hugh_500 wrote: »

Hi


we just move in to a 4 bed detached house and would like to know what a average oil usage would be as we kept the heating low and on timer but still go though 1000L in 4 weeks is this normal ?


many thanks for you help

If you have just moved in you should have an EPC, what does this recomend if anything? If it recommends any insulation measures, you are likely to be entitled to some help towards having some fitted.

Secondly, the cheapest form of off grid heating is renewables, which one depends on the fabric of the building and your circumstances.

Renewables have a high capital cost in relation to fossil fuel alternatives, but this can be recuperated in typically in 4-7 years through the RHI income alone.

You can calculate your potential RHI income by using the link below and your EPC

https://www.gov.uk/renewable-heat-incentive-calculator

if you cant find your epc you will be able to download it from the following link

https://www.epcregister.com/reportSearchAddressByPostcode.html

hugh_500

Thank for all your replies we are renting the house in the north of Scotland and in the contract we cant do any thing to the house. The landlord has been told that the boiler is not working right as it on 9 hours a day 4 hours in the morning and 5 in the evening. when we move in we did not get a EPC pack.
The levels of insulation in the house is unknown as most of the bedrooms have been made into the loft space all the rooms that have radiators in are all at different temp and one cold at the bottom of it and just warm at the top. But we still not heard any thing back from the landlord yet if she going to fix the boiler or not we don't know if there any help out there as when we get are next delivery of oil 500L some time this week/next week we have 17 day of hot water and heating.

comeandgo

Your radiators need bled, if they have cold spots there is air in them. Is there a small key to turn a nut on the top side of the radiator? Look in utube for instructions if you are not sure.

hugh_500

comeandgo wrote: »

Your radiators need bled, if they have cold spots there is air in them. Is there a small key to turn a nut on the top side of the radiator? Look in utube for instructions if you are not sure.

yep we was going to do that but as the boiler pressure is about 0.6bar but in the manufacture hand book said the system needs to be at 1bar and there's no point on the system to top up the pressure back when we chat to the manufacture they said if the radiators are bled we would loss the pressure and we cant top it up and the landlord don't want us touching the boiler system

Smiley_Dan

When a rad is cold at the bottom I don't think that's air causing the problem. Might be sludge built up over time in the rad.

You can look up any EPC at https://www.epcregister.com/reportSearchAddressByPostcode.html