I'm going to look at a new house soon where there is the option of oil
or wood pellet heating. Which should I go for?

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Ian

Ian wrote:

I'm going to look at a new house soon where there is the option of oil
or wood pellet heating. Which should I go for?

Gas.

Ian wrote:
I'm going to look at a new house soon where there is the option of oil
or wood pellet heating. Which should I go for?

If you can get the wood, and dont mind a probably twice daily chore of
loading and emptying, or the issue of coming home to an icy house after
a weekend away, go pellets.

Otherwise pay teh premuem for hassle free heating with oil.

Or put in a heat pump.

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Ian wrote:
I'm going to look at a new house soon where there is the option of oil or
wood pellet heating. Which should I go for?

If you can get the wood, and dont mind a probably twice daily chore of
loading and emptying, or the issue of coming home to an icy house after a
weekend away, go pellets.

Otherwise pay teh premuem for hassle free heating with oil.

Or put in a heat pump.

Wood pellet boilers are going to become very expensive soon.
There is a limit to how much wood growing is possible, once demand exceeds
supply prices will rise rapidly to match those of oil and gas.
I don't know if it will be this year or next but it will happen.
Its the same for all "green" fuels, there isn't enough if a lot switch
(maybe we need to import lots of "green" fuel?).

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:21:57 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

If you can get the wood,

That I think is the clincher along with space to store it dry.

and dont mind a probably twice daily chore of loading and emptying, or

Modern ones don't require daily filling/emptying, not sure they stretch to
a week but at least several days. Effciently burnt wood does not produce
much ash. The ash aspect might be an issue with some hyper clean folks,
depends where the boiler is located.

the issue of coming home to an icy house after a weekend away, go
pellets.

See above there is no reason that a decent wood pellet boiler isn't as
controlable as oil. Fuel supply could be problem for long periods of
abscence, depends how big it's hopper is, if it needed to burn a bit to
keep the house frost free. Same could be said for oil if you didn't ensure
it had enough in before going away...

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Cheers
Dave.