is this the norm useage and cost for LPG useage

duncanilona

I have recently moved into a 5 bedroom stone walled home. 3 bedrooms upstairs other 2 downstairs.
On moving in on October 2020 the LPG tank was empty, so got it filled with 1721 litres at a cost of £857.85. i am now down to 10% and have had to place another order for 1500 litres at a cost of 748.13.
i am aware that if i go into contract i can get the price per litre down. But my query is, is the normal amount of usage per 2 months?? seriously a-lot of money to be paying out every 2 months. i have asked that the company who we are currently renting the tank from to come and give it a look over just to ensure all is ok.

Any advice would be gratefully welcomed.

Thank you 

matelodave

1500 litres costing £748.13 = about 50p a litre, with approx 7 kwh/litre = about 7p/kw. I dunno what others pay for LPG that that doesn't sound to be excessive from what I've hear about LPG. For comparison, oil is around 4-5p/kw

However 1500 x 7 = 10,500kwh is not far short of the annual average of 12500kwh. However that said, if you've got an old stone built house which is probably poorly insulated your heating requirements would be a lot higher but it's not going to be easy to quantify by how much - quite a lot I would imagine.. What sort of controls have you got, how long do you have it on.How lod is the boiler.
All these thing make a big difference to your consumption so it virtually impossible to compare you stone built house with a suburban 3 bedroom semi.

An oil boiler delivering approximately the same amount of heat (10,500) would use around 1000 litres, even at 50p /litre that would only cost £500 so it might be worth exploring changing over to oil. Unless you can get mains gas connected everything else would cost you a lot more.Although check out biomass if you've got space (a very dry shed or outbuilding) to store a couple of tons of pellets.

J_B

I wasn't awa

duncanilona said:

i am aware that if i go into contract i can get the price per litre down.

I wasn't aware you could buy domestic LPG without a contract.

duncanilona

Well I haven’t signed anything since I’ve moved in, and I just call the supplier who’s sticker is on the tank to fill when I need it filled. But I will call them to check this, and don’t pay any DD either. 

Thanks 

Mister_G

J_B said:

I wasn't awa

duncanilona said:

i am aware that if i go into contract i can get the price per litre down.

I wasn't aware you could buy domestic LPG without a contract.

Yes.  I  buy mine at 33ppl without a contract from my local independent.

duncanilona

matelodave said:

1500 litres costing £748.13 = about 50p a litre, with approx 7 kwh/litre = about 7p/kw. I dunno what others pay for LPG that that doesn't sound to be excessive from what I've hear about LPG. For comparison, oil is around 4-5p/kw

However 1500 x 7 = 10,500kwh is not far short of the annual average of 12500kwh. However that said, if you've got an old stone built house which is probably poorly insulated your heating requirements would be a lot higher but it's not going to be easy to quantify by how much - quite a lot I would imagine.. What sort of controls have you got, how long do you have it on.How lod is the boiler.
All these thing make a big difference to your consumption so it virtually impossible to compare you stone built house with a suburban 3 bedroom semi.

An oil boiler delivering approximately the same amount of heat (10,500) would use around 1000 litres, even at 50p /litre that would only cost £500 so it might be worth exploring changing over to oil. Unless you can get mains gas connected everything else would cost you a lot more.Although check out biomass if you've got space (a very dry shed or outbuilding) to store a couple of tons of pellets.

We have a Worcester Greenstar boiler I’ve researched this and it is appears to a good boiler and is suitable for my property and lpg. I have my heating on through a timer so at present 2 hrs in the morning 5 late afternoon into evening and 2 hours late evening. With an hour during the night. 

So would you say my  useage so far appears to be very high? 

Thanks 

matelodave

The amount of gas you'll use is not only based upon the length of time it's running but also the temperature that you have the thermostats set to and the heat loss of the house - if yours is a stone built house with minimal insulation, then the boiler could be flogging its heart out all the time its on and not even achieving the set temperatures.

Is it a combi or do you have a hotwater tank, how many showers and baths a day do you take, you can get through a lot of hot water without trying very hard, the same with washing and rinsing stuff, using hot water where you could use cold could also use more than you think. Do you cook with gas?

Your circumstances are different to others, your lifestyle is different, the house is different, so there are so many variable that you cannot compare your consumption with other people. Unlike having a metered supply, you cannot easily determine how you consumption is varying when you make changes to settings, I guess you might be able to have a meter fitted so you could monitor your consumption with a bit more precision than just a percentage/top up regime.

Has anyone else thought about having a meter fitted to their LPG supply

Heres a similar question to yours - https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5782070/lpg-how-many-litres-do-you-use-per-year

Juleszoemay

I'm interested in this, since our last LPG delivery was 13th Dec, 700 litres, and they have just come again and delivered 670 litres.... I'm so confused as to why we have used so much, and its actually making me feel sick if we have spent £100 a week heating the house!! The house is a 60's renovated, roof is well insulated but I think the wall insulation is pretty rubbish, that said, we have a lot of new glass, large windows etc. However, exactly the same as last year and I'm sure we never used this much before. The house is a 2700 sq ft detached, and its never 'warm' so I'm pretty annoyed that I've smoked away this much gas in such a short space of time. I'm now sat in my office with the house unheated, with an oil filled electric rad on as i'm so worried my heating bills will bankrupt me. Also we appear to be paying 61p per litre, which having read this thread is almost double what some are paying. We are with flogas, they installed the tank 3 years ago, so I presume I'm out of contract? If I can't use less, I need to get the cost down, £400 a month on heating is frankly a joke! 

matelodave

Using an oil filled radiator will be costing you around 15p/kwh rather than around 8p for lpg. This December and so far this January has been colder than last year so you'd expect to be using more. Were you sitting in your office a year a go and heating your place or were you at work somewhere else with the heating either on low or turned off during the day.
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This year is different to last for a lot of people so it's not everso easy to directly compare however perhaps you should see if you can shop around a bit for LPG but you are a bit of a hostage to the suppliers but using leccy instead could be costing you twice as much