On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:38:53 +0000, tim... wrote:

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can you not get bottled gas or oil?

tim

Back in the day IIRC the cost for energy used to be (cheapest first):

Mains gas.

Mains electric.

Bulk gas or oil or solid fuel.

Bottled gas.

Wood is a bit of a funny one because it used to be dirt cheap but with all
the trendy wood burners it is now very expensive in most areas.

If the list above is reasonably accurate then electric heating (of almost
any sort) would be cheaper than bottled gas.

So one way would be to switch to a supplier with an Economy 7 tariff and
run the storage heaters as normal, then top up during the day using fan
heaters, oil filled radiators, whatever. Electric heaters for the rooms
without storage heaters - storage radiators would be good if easy to fit.

Immersion heater for the hot water.

Run the wood burner for pleasure when there is cheap wood available, and
get bonus hot water and radiators. Don't rely on it for the primary source
of heating.

Cheers


Dave R



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