Is this right or legal

kinger101

How can it cost more if the fuel is free? Your neighbour sounds as mad as a box of frogs.

helloeeveryone123

We know how to do the boiler, but he dosnt want us touching it and tbh its a big commitment doing it

helloeeveryone123

Kinger its the running of it that's the cost our electric which run the oil for the heating was £15.00 a week before and now its £30.00 a week

AdrianC

There is no way on this earth that the electricity to run a biomass boiler - even if it is heating two properties - will cost more than oil-heating a property. Not. A. Hope.

A quick google for a fairly typical domestic biomass boiler finds an absolute peak draw of 860w - during ignition - and a rated consumption of 50w while heating and 8w idle.

To take another £15 of electricity per week - assuming 15p/kwh - would be 100kwh, 100,000wh, or 2000hrs at 50w.

He hasn't somehow managed to wire it up so that both properties are going through your meter, has he...?

sheramber

An acquaintance of ours lets out estate cottages and he has installed biomass heating for them and his own house,

A commercial system such as this gets more feedback tarriff.

He has commented on keeping it on all year as he gets more money back than to costs to run the system and does say in the summer they need to open all the windows to let the excess heat out.

helloeeveryone123

Sheramber, has each cottage have an individual meter and pays accordingly to usage ?

kinger101

AdrianC wrote: »

There is no way on this earth that the electricity to run a biomass boiler - even if it is heating two properties - will cost more than oil-heating a property. Not. A. Hope.

A quick google for a fairly typical domestic biomass boiler finds an absolute peak draw of 860w - during ignition - and a rated consumption of 50w while heating and 8w idle.

To take another £15 of electricity per week - assuming 15p/kwh - would be 100kwh, 100,000wh, or 2000hrs at 50w.

He hasn't somehow managed to wire it up so that both properties are going through your meter, has he...?

It's obviously due to the cannabis farm the old lady next door has set up.

helloeeveryone123

lol lol you never know, she does like gardening

konark

We don't share cost as he used her container to put in the boiler

Container? Her container? Why does she have a container? What is a container? Is it not the landlord's container? Nothing makes sense, your landlord is dodgy shyster , your neighbour is certifiable (or a cannabis farmer), your boiler which burns logs uses £30 of electricity per week. My only advice is move.

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I'd start researching how to get the system inspected by an appropriately qualified engineer to ensure its been installed correctly. At the moment you don't have a clue what's going on. It could be that such a report could be used to force the LL to behave. But to do that you have to understand what's going on.