tony_turbo

looking to build a house and wondering what you folks pay for a months heating using oil or gas(in a tank) which is generally cheaper?

allsteel

I use oil as i don't have an option but i can deffo say it is the most expensive form of heating.Prices have gone up over 25% in the last year and it was'nt cheap before.

D7AKE

Without question Mains gas is the cheapest most efficient and less harmful to the environment, a new condensing gas boiler will be up to 98% efficient as well, where an oil boiler will be more like 90%

Turboboy67

If you have the choice, then mains gas.

Cheaper, cleaner and no huge storage tank in your garden

Cheers

rapidcossie

gas in a tank? you mean LPG? no point using it if you are in an area supplied with mains gas.

tony_turbo

lpg it must be then. where my plot is, there is no mains gas. all houses down that way are either oil or lpg!

swerv

if i were looking to build a house now i would deffo look to some sort of renewable energy source as over the next 10 years or so i can see gas going very very expensive

TurboShed

Gas all the way.

Mark V8

iTrader: (2)

Have you thought about a ground source heat pump if you are starting from scratch ?

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/...ce_heat_pumps/

Mark

Turboboy67

I didn't read your first post properly

LPG can be pricey, and you are tied to the supplier (they supply the storage vessel for free),

where as oil you can shop around for better prices.

might be best to ask people around where your building, their running costs for both fuels.

I personally would go for LPG, just for the fact it is cleaner, but the running costs may well be more.

Also look into electric boilers, Heatre Sadia do the best ones,
I have installed a few over the last couple of years and they are excellant,
The only thing is, I don't know the running costs, but you could find that out.

Cheers

tabetha

I'm surprised by this, only ever rented a house with oil heating once, and going back a few years but was less than £100 a year for heating/hot water, in 1996, maybe price has changed a lot ?
tabetha

philbert

I have oil heating (parafin) just filled the tank 41p per litre prices have rocketed in the last 5 years and can only get worse

tabetha

I am sure it was about 11p a litre back in 96!!
tabetha

turbospud1

oil per litre gives a higher kj output than a litre of gas,i removed the lpg and installed oil,half the running costs of lpg,the best/cheapest is a wood burning stove with backboiler if building new i would fit both and combine the system

mercury xr

If building from new I would deffo have Gas, and make sure you have a SEDBUK Band A boiler, also consider Solar, not that expensive and does the job nicely to bring the bills down.

teamfatboy

Oil by a long shot but i would not burn kerosene 41p per litre. burn veg oil 24p per litre, printinting ink, reclaimed fuel oil (RFO) 18p per litre

Graham S1

a combination of several of the above, would mean virtually never paying for heating/hot water again.

ground source heating, water solar panel of two on roof (falling in price all the time), wood burning stove in kitchen or lounge with backboiler, and a wind turbine. for a few quid investment, you could pay virtually nothing for your heating. Just need the money in the first place.

edit: although would be a coont to wire and plumb up.

mercury xr

To be honest solar heating is a piece of pi$$, seems complicated when it isn't actually.

nuttynil

iTrader: (3)

I have oil fired heating the price does go up and down by alot like 500 lts will heat 15 rads + hot water in a 4 bedroom house 13hrs a day for 5 weeks or maybe 6 weeks if you let run down to near bottom of the tank and that costs 44p a litre £231 with vat...A couple of months back i was paying about £198 it is quite costly .i am thinking of getting gas but can anyone tell me how much it would cost to have connected up and how much for heating bills.thanks