Yes much as I'd expect. I have storage heaters and they seem to compare on
the single fuel costs to the combined costs others get who have gas as well.
The only down side of storage heaters is if somebody comes to do some work
and opens doors in the late afternoon or evening you have to use peak
electricity to get the temp up since the storage heaters are getting colder
by then. This only happens in very cold wither given good insulation and
even reasonable double glazing.

When they came around poking yellow plastic pipes up the rusting iron ones,
I had a stop end fitted at the street, so no gas in the house.
Brian

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On 19/11/2019 11:18, Tricky Dicky wrote:
If you are talking about open flame LPG fires then forget it the
condensation resulting from the amount of water they throw out is
horrendous.

If on the other hand you are considering an LPG boiler then very
carefully weigh up the costs. To start with the boiler itself will
probably be dearer than an equivalent natural gas one because it is a
smaller market. As for how practical it is to run it off cylinders I do
not know even if it is cost effective do you really want to be out there
in -5°C changing over cylinders. I think most people running off LPG tend
to have a large gas tank in the garden, so do you have a suitable garden
and it will still probably require some digging to run the gas feed into
the house. When you weigh up all these costs it may not be cheaper than
running a gas supply in from the street assuming there is gas there.

Friends this summer have had oil CH heating system installed with a bulk
tank in the garden. No mains gas available and the previous system was
20year old storage heaters. The new radiators are around the third of the
size of the old storage heaters and have freed up a lot of space in rooms.

Various other option were considered
LPG supplied from bottles
LPG supplied from a bulk tank

For LPG from bottles you would need 47kg capacity bottles for domestic 3
bed house heating and typically around 20+ refills during the winter or
cold months. Cylinders containing the much gas are not something you are
likely to put in the back seat of your car to take down for a refill. It's
something that would be delivered and let someone else do the heavy
man-handling. You would need to have two or three cylinders that you could
change over to cover, say, the Xmas holiday period when deliveries may not
be possible.

Potential running costs:
Propane in 47kg bottles = £1250/year (possible needing 22 refills)
LPG from a bulk tank = £756/year
Heating oil from a bulk tank = approx £730 (possibly less at current oil
prices).
All solutions also give hot water, not requiring electric heating.

With potential running costs of £500 more per year for bottled gas this
solution was rejected.

The quotes for the boilers/radiators/bulk tanks etc were fairly comparable
with the 47kg bottle solution being £2K cheaper, I believe the regulations
for installing a bulk LPG tank may be more onerous than for a oil tank.


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