No gas, no oil :(

Hapless_2

I have a rayburn, solid fuel and wouldn't have anything else. Rayburns cannot run off diesel. They are made eithr to run off solid fuel, wood, gas, electric or oil. Any conversions are not authroised by rayburn.
My rayburn is 50 yrs old ad still going strong. We will upgrade it to a wood only one when we can afford it, there is reduced VAT for those, but the cost is still in the £3-4,000 but it will run radiators as well as the hot water and for cooking..

punamulta

consider a heat pump, I have a couple of these which are aircon in reverse, you refrigerate the air outside and pump the residual heat indoors. they are extremely efficient converting 1kw of electricity into up to 5kw of heat. these are are used in scandinavia, canada and new zealand, the UK as usual is slow on the uptake of new technology. this site explains better than i can how they work. prices have dropped recently with imports from china.http://www.bdt.co.nz/comfortmaster/info_buyer.asp

here is a uk supplier but shop around or haggle. http://www.iceenergy.co.uk/