LPG Heating

[richhead]

had an old stone thatched cottage years ago, it was on lpg with a big tank, it was ruinus with the bills, was looking into converting to oil but sold the house.

[ColinM50]

When I lived in France I changed from oil to LPG and the supplier buried the huuge tank in the front garden. They turned up with a small digger, dug the hole and buried the tank and reinstated the lawn all in the same day. Don't know if Calor or Flogas in the UK would be OK with that, can't see any reason why not apart from "we don't do that not allowed"

[miniman]

£10,000 for an oil tank?

[Steve H]

We have just changed from Avanti to Flogas because Avanti wouldn’t budge on fixing the first year price and charging whatever they want on the second year. Flogas fixed two years at 48p which is ok but we had previously fixed two years at 32p just before Ukraine kicked off .

On the whole LPG is fine, we also run a log burner partly for heat/economy and largely because I like it.

miniman said:

£10,000 for an oil tank?

Yea, I thought that

[rlg43p]

Steve H said:

Yea, I thought that

Had almost exactly the same experience as you. Fixed with flogas at 31p before Ukraine. At renewal they wanted 49p fixed for 2 years.

I've gone with a Birmingham based lpg supplier at wholesale cost +9p variable. Currently I think that equates to about 41p.

They also take full responsibility for maintaining the regulators and stuff, unlike Flogas. Expect a £115 + Vat cost if your regulator needs a 2nd stage reset.

[georgefreeman918]

We have no mains gas, we are on 47kg LPG cylinders. I struggle to workout a direct comparison against mains or if oil were to be installed, but it works well for us.

We have a bank of 4, 2 'active' and 2 spare. The system switches to the spare when the active bottles are empty. We then order 2 more from a local gas company and they are usually delivered and hooked up next day. Cost is about £80 per bottle delivered.

We had a total of 8 deliveries in 2023, so circa £1,280 in heating, which I don't is too bad. For 4 / 5 months a year, we dont require any gas as a result and there is no standing charge. Heating on 6am - 8am, then 5pm - 9pm (we are generally out most days) and this is supplemented with a log fire most nights between 1st Oct to 31st Mar.

House is stone built, 400 years no insulation. I wouldn't say its 'hot' but it is liveable. AVG room temps are around 16 degrees, but we have our living room with fire at about 24 degrees!