What fuel for central heating out in the sticks?

[Tant]

All

I'm about to move out into the wilds of Lincolshire where there is no mains gas.
The house currently has bottled LPG central heating, and a multi fuel fire in the living room. Now the multi fuel looks a bit like fun...going out and chopping up trees with a chainsaw and making newspaper bricks, and all that, but the bottled LPG looks like a real pain in the arse.

Would it be difficult to convert it to liquid fuel (gas oil/kerosene)and install a tank that would see me through a winter, and what would be the likely benefits?

any help appreciated

Cheers

Ant

[Mrs Fish]

James here:

LPG can come in a big tank which is topped up automatically. Oil is currently more expensice than LPG I believe. Either way you will find you burn more logs as they are alot cheaper. My brother runs a two oven aga on oil with an oil boiler, spends £1500 a year on oil alone and he burns a lot of logs!!

[Paul R]

Hi Ant

Take a look at the link on my profile, all the control of gas but with no maintenance and between 30-50% cheaper to run than storage heaters. Email me through profile on here if you like.

Thanks

Paul

[liner33]

Paul R said:

Hi Ant

Take a look at the link on my profile, all the control of gas but with no maintenance and between 30-50% cheaper to run than storage heaters. Email me through profile on here if you like.

Thanks

Paul

looks interesting , we have electric panel heaters upstairs and radiators run on heating oil downstairs , in the 4 years we have had the oil the price has doubled !!

Last fill of the tank was almost £1000 , this year i'm expecting £1200 , considering we also have a log burning stove which is great for heating part of the house but only part its not a cheap way to heat a 5 bed house

[Geoff82]

We've also got a multi-fuel stove in iieu of a gas supply and can recommend coal or anthracite. Costs us around £12 for a 50 Kg bag of either and if you lit the fire every day a single bag would last around 2 weeks.

That would depend on how big your stove is and of course how big your house is.

Edited by Geoff82 on Tuesday 16th September 09:10