Hi & moving to new home with old heating

nath812

Hi all,

Have been trowling through many a internet page and a lot of this forum and I still cant make up my mind!

I will shortly be moving home (fingers crossed!) to a house with a very old lpg back boiler. I currently live in a mid terraced mains gas new build house and as you can probably tell - its well cheap!

I have money set back for a new boiler but im a bit stumped on what to do.

The property has a hot water tank (immersion heater - so i presume this is electric) but the central heating is provided by lpg which I understand is quite expensive (currently have 4 of the large bottles attached to it).

Now I could get a lpg tank and new boiler or go oil which seems to getting more expensive by the hour.

The property is a semi detached bungalow 1950's-ish with a dorma loft conversion, 3 beds, 2 of which are upstairs. I dont think is that well insulated.

So the questions are:-

LPG or OIL?

Combi or keep the immersion for hot water?

The radiators are dinky things but must have worked so can I keep them/pipes?

None of the rads have thermostatic valves, can I add?

Should I install a woodburner where the back boiler would have been for a little extra?


Any help would be ace as I just dont know anymore!



Nath

janken

I believe oil would be the no brainer but with all the price rises in oil you never know. I am at present looking into a dual system with oil and wood burning stove/boiler. I am lucky i have a cheap source of hard wood suitable for the log burner. There are new wood pellet boilers which seem a good option These have large hoppers which feed the boiler. I was told yesterday they should work out at about 60% the cost of oil. I have no reason to believe this statistic.

Obviously if you have access to wood the wood boiler is a great choice. I am expecting a saving of over £600 per year in my heating cost.

Good luck

samtheman1k

Why don't you consider an electric E7 or heat pump based system?

nath812

Hi an ta for the replys.

E7 sounds expensive, my aunt is on it and we worked out it cost her 3500 for a year. Plus there is already pipework and rads there so apart from relocating boiler I hope the rest would be straight forward. I have heard of ground pump but not heat pump, what is it?

I have a wood behind me that I could grab wood from but I didnt know how efficent wood burners were.


Is there a way I could use oil and wood, so i would effectivly have a oil boiler connected but put a wood back burner where the old lpg gas one is now? And if i could how would the two systems work together?


ta


nath

samtheman1k

nath812 wrote: »

I have a wood behind me that I could grab wood from but I didnt know how efficent wood burners were.

If you have free access to wood, then the efficiency isn't really that important as the fuel is free!