Rick wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:22:10 -0000, "J Ashton"
wrote:


Good morning
I'm thinking of buying a house that needs a lot doing to it. One of those
things is central heating. It's in an area without gas so I suppose the
choices are oil or electricity. Is there a website perhaps which will help
me decide? I believe that normally oil is cheaper, but I have oil in my
present house and am irritated by the variations in price every time I ring
up as well as the need to ring a range of suppliers, I'm irritated also by
the eyesore of a tank in the garden, and also by the need to keep an eye on
levels - why didn't I ring up several weeks ago now I'm snowed in!! But the
boiler works well and keeps us warm. On the other hand electricity would be
easier to install but possibly with prohibitively expensive continuing
costs. I am tempted though by the 'green' electricity you can get, I like
the thought of being able to be at least a bit environmentally friendly.

Has anyone else gone through this kind of decision making recently and can
help me weigh up the pros and cons?

thanks

jen



On my house, that has only electricity, and am going to use a ground
source heat pump, underfloor heating (its ideal partner), and good
insulation.

These heat pumps claim for every one unit of lecie you put in, you get
four of heat out. You can also run them in reverse for cooling.

I will have 2 woodburners, so will also take heat from back boilers
when its cold.

You can hide oil/gas tanks in big holes if you like .........


Not so good for maintenance and gravity feed.
You can build follies round em too.

Best form of central heating is a lot of different ones.

Ive got a gravity feed aga, and electric pumped boiler, two open fires
and a wood stove.

One way or another we keep from hypothermia.


Rick