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Moving away from oil central heating?
Hi, wondering if anyone have any experience good or bad of changing heating and water systems from oil to anything else - except gas.
Currently our heating is oil but we have a pretty small garden and the oil tank albeit only a couple of years old is still a big ugly eyesore and more importantly takes up valuable space. The boiler (10 years old) is also external and sits immediately outside a bedroom window. 'Tis not a pretty sight either!
We are planning some major internal building work next year (moving out temporarily) including taking all our old and uneven chipboard type floors up to renew and add some insulation. We are also wondering if it might be an idea to change the heating whilst all the floors are up anyway.
Albeit oil is relatively cheap at the moment and may well be for some time to come, that hasn't always been the case but really the motivation is to get rid of the boiler and tank.
Currently our heating is oil but we have a pretty small garden and the oil tank albeit only a couple of years old is still a big ugly eyesore and more importantly takes up valuable space. The boiler (10 years old) is also external and sits immediately outside a bedroom window. 'Tis not a pretty sight either!
We are planning some major internal building work next year (moving out temporarily) including taking all our old and uneven chipboard type floors up to renew and add some insulation. We are also wondering if it might be an idea to change the heating whilst all the floors are up anyway.
Albeit oil is relatively cheap at the moment and may well be for some time to come, that hasn't always been the case but really the motivation is to get rid of the boiler and tank.
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This is the energy forum "gas/electric? However,
There is a thread currently running in the "LPG, Heating oil, Solid and other fuels" forum which may be of interest to you?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6196045/alternatives-to-heating-oil#latest
The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon1 -
Thanks Hasbeen! Looks like an ideal thread
Not sure how to delete this one tho .... 0
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