Heating Oil Consumption

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Murph7355

37,648 posts

255 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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rooney1000 said:
4 bed detached, 100 years old. I get through 4500 litres a year, does my heating and my AGA (aga does hot water as well). Always thought it was high but nothing I try reduces it.

Bit of a bh !
Turn the Aga off. Friends who have theirs turned on all complain of excessive oil consumption. Ours is an ornament.

This thread has made me feel much better about our consumption. 3000sqft 520yr old farmhouse. No double glazing (secondary on much of the house though) and plenty of breathability... We get through 3700 litres or so a year.

Was nearer 6000 when we moved in but diagnosed a faulty 2-way valve. Fixing that dropped consumption massively.I check every part of the heating system twice a year now (2 way valves, TRVs etc, October and April).

Thermostat is set at 21deg. Goes on during the day if needed but generally not (women need to be conditioned that 21deg is not Arctic temps and that steady temps inside are just that and don't need fiddling with smile ). Each degree higher makes a lot of difference to heating large spaces.

We do have thermal solar for water. I've never been convinced it's worth the (previous owner's) outlay but it does save a bit in summer (assuming it doesn't need looking at).

Busa mav

2,555 posts

153 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Our heating is on 14 hours a day.
4000’ of 1930’s house and can use 200 litres a week during cold spells. frown

530dTPhil

1,374 posts

217 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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I have recently worked out our oil costs since moving in two and a half years ago and it's around £50 per week, something like 120 litres, for heating and hot water. Twenty two radiators, upstairs and downstairs pumped and timed separately, a Megaflo system, two hot water tanks.
It's a 1780 five bedroom house, 3,500 sq ft, occupied by four adults and generally someone at home all hours of the day. I don't think that's too bad.

Electricity works out around £27 per week.

caiss4

1,864 posts

196 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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V40TC said:
Current prices ours equates to £488 for the 1000lts
£60 per month

heating on 0500 off 2330
Water on for a few hrs a day

Stats seem fixed at 25+
oddly creep without being touched hehe

draft free and good insulation must help I guess as we have large amount of glass too.
Rooms have vaulted ceilings bar one bathroom and Kitchen.
Boiler is a Valiant.
last house we had a new Worcester fitted (not impressed a few breakdowns in the first 3-4years)

no gas here either.

Another of Our previous homes had Calor (LPG tank in garden)and this was by far the most expensive heating we have ever had.
I would never ever consider it again.
Sounds pretty good to me based on those temperatures!

My place sounds similar. A barn conversion of just over 3,000 sq ft. Underfloor heating on the ground floor, 8 rads on first floor. UFH on 24/7 but room stats generally set to about 19C (some variation depending on the room) and rads thermostat set to 21C. All hot water as well.

The tank was brimmed early July (1600l) and we've currently used half the tank. Providing we don't get a prolonged cold snap we should comfortably get through to July on the current tank.

Looking at our consumption over 11 years we've averaged just over 1700l p.a.

V40TC

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1,994 posts

183 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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eliot said:
23/24 seems pretty high - have you actually measured it independently? I vary my zones around 17 to 21
Yes I have 3 independent thermometers around the house
currently sat at 23 degrees(living room), heating on for 4hrs so far so it will get warmer.

luckily the Heating oil for the year is covered with the feed in payments from the Solar panels on the roof.

(q looking over my shoulder to see the room stat has amazingly moved on its own to 27degrees!
no wonder I can hear the boiler running.)

annual usage around 1200-1500 lts.

Mr MXT

7,691 posts

282 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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1800sqft barn conversion, i WFH so sometimes have the heating on during the day (18-19degrees) but usually rely on the wood burner.

Using 1800 litres a year.

liner33

10,640 posts

201 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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CorradoTDI said:
Why are you using electric to heat water? It would be far cheaper to use oil and if it's not piped up maybe get cylinder swaped in with solar too for the summer.
We have shower rooms running off an economy 7 immersion and a bathroom (with bath) running off the combi, the E7 bill is around £10pm

task

418 posts

170 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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3 bed bungalow, built in 1920s, large amount of glass in the living room, no cavity wall, double glazing and plenty of loft insulation.
2 Oven oil AGA, also running hot water and a towel rail in a bathroom
1981 Potterton BOA Boiler, not very efficient.


During the summer it's around £17 a week to run the AGA.
Once the heating comes on that can vary quite a lot, depending on outside temperature and our habits. Have recently installed Evohome which should help reduce bills a little. Rooms are generally heated to around 19 when in use and I work from home so one is always being heated.

According to the MyOlive oil monitor we use between 70 to 90L of fuel a week. Haven't been here for a year yet and the oil monitor has only been in place from end of August but I should think it will be around 2500L a year.


mikal83

5,340 posts

251 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Big 2 bed bungalow built 1987, shedloads of loft insulation, newly DG, oil for water only, a 1000 lt tank last 4 yrs. Woodburner does the heating. Luvly jubbly.

alscar

3,966 posts

212 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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We use around 3000 litres pa - 400 year yo listed farmhouse - 3500 sq ft -temp around 21 degrees - heating and water on around 12 hours per day.Alpha / Aga cooker boiler. House hardly energy efficient and have woodburners for evening heat.Annual cost around £1300.
The poster with 9000 litres must be living in a very large house or houses or have a leak !

gf15

980 posts

265 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Wow, a lot of different people with different levels of acceptable heat levels, so thought I should add our dis-organied mess.

4,000 Sq feet rebuilt barn.
Oil: 2,500 liters. Most of which is consumed by a 4 oven Aga to keep itself warm.
Log multi fuel burners, of which there are 5 (one of which heats water occasionally). Always at least 1 going, ideally 2.
Two chunky electric storage heaters which run all through winter.
Oil filled 2Kw electric heaters, always one on somewhere.
One electric log burner in the garage to complement the 2 rads on the boiler central heating. I reckon the house stays at 18 -20 degrees, with the TV room about 22 - 24 degrees.
Oil £1200+Electric heating £600+ logs/coal £600 = £2,400 and we still have to wear jumpers during the day.

911gone

207 posts

74 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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I've never worked out how much oil we consume but I would guess it's around 50 litres on average.

Our house holds it's heat fairly well with the exception of the conservatory and that will be solved when the roof is replaced next month with a solid "live in" roof.

Are you other oil users buying your oil from boilerjuice.com or have you found somewhere better?

Last Visit

2,796 posts

187 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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911gone said:
Are you other oil users buying your oil from boilerjuice.com or have you found somewhere better?
Quite new to oil purchasing but I've been using the oil club so far, which for me came in cheaper than boilerjuice.

https://www.oil-club.co.uk

.:ian:.

1,921 posts

202 months

Wednesday 17th January 2018
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Last Visit said:
911gone said:
Are you other oil users buying your oil from boilerjuice.com or have you found somewhere better?
Quite new to oil purchasing but I've been using the oil club so far, which for me came in cheaper than boilerjuice.

https://www.oil-club.co.uk
Yes, oil club has always been a few p or more cheaper than boilerjuice for me.

maccas99

1,697 posts

187 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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1960's bungalow with retrofit UFH throughout (no rads) and it's set to 22 permanently due to kids. We use about 2500 litres of oil each year. It was renovated 3 years ago and has loft insulation, cavity walls and double glazing. Tried to get an ASHP fitted but it was deemed not suitable due to the higher temps needed. We use Oil-Club as well.

Jaguar steve

9,232 posts

209 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Local oil depots always better Boiler juice on price if you ask I've found.

Very small old timber framed end terrace cottage with later additions in both solid and cavity brick walls. Mostly single glazed wood framed windows and solid wood external doors.

Our primary source of heat is a log burner and we use anything between 5 to 700 litres a year with hot water on twice a day and heating on for a couple of hours in the evening if its particularity cold outside.


Mobile Chicane

20,735 posts

211 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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I filled my 2,400 litre tank when the oil price was 26ppl and still have half left.

400 year old stone cottage which has been insulated as well as it can be. Walls are dry lined and windows secondary glazed.

I set my thermostat to 15C and wear a jumper. More wimmins ought to do this. There's nothing like being responsible for your own heating bills to focus the mind.

V40TC

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1,994 posts

183 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Mobile Chicane said:
I filled my 2,400 litre tank when the oil price was 26ppl and still have half left.

400 year old stone cottage which has been insulated as well as it can be. Walls are dry lined and windows secondary glazed.

I set my thermostat to 15C and wear a jumper. More wimmins ought to do this. There's nothing like being responsible for your own heating bills to focus the mind.
Do you live alone ?

15 degrees that is low
not sure our stats even have that temp on them.


Stat check in living room *27degrees

luckily oil just arrived so good to go for another 6-8months
46.5 p/l 2018
38.8 p/l 2017
24.9 p/l 2016

Pinkie15

1,248 posts

79 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Must be doing something wrong, seem to get through 5,500 litres/yr, equates to about £170/month

Rebuilt/extended 1950s bungalow, approx. 200 sq metres, mix of UFH & rads

UFH set at 23 degs, any lower and there seems to be no heat at all

Thermostat for rads (located in coldest part of house) set at 25 degs, any lower then the women of the house claim it's arctic.

mattwh

138 posts

82 months

Saturday 20th January 2018
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Just about to refill ours - about £2400/annum choose between boiler-juice and Oil club based on cost. 1880 6 bed house and the £2400 includes heating pool between march and sept. its hurts to top up the two tanks (one house / one pool) but the boilers are new and efficient......