Most domestic "castles" would use 400 to 600 litres in 6 months..... If you're spending that much on oil, better gird your loins for leccy costs running a heat pump this winter!
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His username is Knighty - so possibly a Knight and does live in a castle!
50.59ppl ex vat here today with Boilerjuice. It seems to have steadied out there. I wonder if its time to order. Could hedge my bets and do 1000l now and another 2500l in the summer to fill for winter in the hope summer prices will come down.
As above though, these last two years have been odd. This winter prices were as low as the summer so I could have ordered any time.
My local place will do a discount for a large order but BJ dont seem to do that.
As above though, these last two years have been odd. This winter prices were as low as the summer so I could have ordered any time.
My local place will do a discount for a large order but BJ dont seem to do that.
pretty much, we only moved in October, loft insulation is useless, there's a load of single glazed windows
we've sealed a lot of the draughts up now, but when we moved in you could be sitting eating your dinner and feel the wind blowing past you - windows need an upgrade but we're going to move some of them / make some bigger etc. so we're holding off on that, trying to push and get solar sorted before next winter
heat pumps will need a full new heating system in, what's in is a bodge of upgrades from the old coal powered gravity fed system, so that'll probably be next summer
fingers crossed for this year get the batteries and solar sorted then I'll get some kid of electric boiler to dump heat into the heating system
I don't know how the previous owners put up with it, when we moved in the hot water tank was heated by the return water from the radiators... and even if you did heat it up... all the heat would thermosphere out into the heating system within an hour :-s
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I have this T shirt……after new insulated roof, new insulated floors, underfloor wet heating, new inner wall insulation, new windows etc we now use about 2000 ltrs per year in a 3000 sq ft house.
Normally excess from solar goes into your hot water tank via the emmersion heater unless you are charging batteries, in which case batteries get charged first. A solar economiser I think its called, we dont have batteries yet, but excess solar gears hotwater first then our heat store tank
I kind of jumped the gun and already bought the batteries :-o
100kwh of used Nissan leaf cells
I found a decent guy who gives me them pretty cheap, so might end up adding even more than that... I'm thinking in the winter we could charge them overnight at chap rate to use during the day
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50.1p here now , 2000L ordered.
I gambled. I could have fit in 3000l. I ordered 1000 litres at 50ppl in the hope that it might continue to come down!
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We ordered 750l at 49.99999p from Homefuels Direc.
Ordered 28th, it was delivered on Wednesday.
Driver was only happy to fit 675l into the tank, worried about expansion.
Homefuels Direct have a "Order too much & we'll automatically refund the difference." , so we'll see how well that works.
According to their system the fuel hasn't been delivered yet, so I expect a manual correction has to be done in their back office.
Ordered 28th, it was delivered on Wednesday.
Driver was only happy to fit 675l into the tank, worried about expansion.
Homefuels Direct have a "Order too much & we'll automatically refund the difference." , so we'll see how well that works.
According to their system the fuel hasn't been delivered yet, so I expect a manual correction has to be done in their back office.
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Our order was delivered at 6:30 this morning!
His third of the day.
Some notice would have been nice then I wouldn't have had to get up to shift a car
Didn't even bother trying to get his tanker up the lane to the house just unfurled the full length of his hose (Oo er missus)
His third of the day.
Some notice would have been nice then I wouldn't have had to get up to shift a car
Didn't even bother trying to get his tanker up the lane to the house just unfurled the full length of his hose (Oo er missus)
