Energy

[The binman chronicles]

That's what a heating engineer was talking up mate.

I'm a bit suspicious though - for the reason you say. Is there grants being given away etc to encourage their installation?

All I want is regular, consistent hot water/heating. I'm thinking heat pumps etc are a bit eco which usually means a bit crap.



Whole villages are oil mate, and the price and demand of property has absolutely rocketed around these parts.

I was just jesting, same around these parts usually you pay a premium for being in the countryside no matter what! Luckily I live close enough to a town to be on the mains but my brother-in-law is on the oil and I get palpitations when he tells me how much it costs.

 

[heatmeiser]

That's what a heating engineer was talking up mate.

I'm a bit suspicious though - for the reason you say. Is there grants being given away etc to encourage their installation?

All I want is regular, consistent hot water/heating. I'm thinking heat pumps etc are a bit eco which usually means a bit crap.



Whole villages are oil mate, and the price and demand of property has absolutely rocketed around these parts.

They are far from crap, but I think they cost a ridiculous amount to set up properly.

 

[chrismpw]

Yeah mate - that's what the previous owners were saying.

What can I say though, must be a snowflake generation. It's freezing. Those radiators need to work, and hot water would be most splendid.



lol I wish mate.

Seems a straight choice between an Oil combi and ground source heat pump - it's just I've never spoke to anyone who has actually had a ground source heat pump. I wonder how much ground source heat pumps are...

I know of a pub I used to frequent that had a bore hole heat pump. It was always toasty. No idea what it cost them but I was very impressed - in fact it was often too warm for them to light the lovely country pub fire that every country pub needs.

I'd like to know what they cost too. I don't want to ask any businesses because I'll get angry if I sniff they're trying to pull a fast one and I don't want to open the door to barrages of sales fliers from crooks the minute they sell my data that I'm thinking of it. Double glazing salesmen have put me off asking a business for life ..... and don't get me started on concrete gutters!

 

[bcblue1878]

Depending on how far out into “the sticks” you are, you could go down the Liquefied Petroleum Gas route (LPG)?
The LPG companies supply domestic customers and would advise on tank placement, access etc for their supply tanker, costs etc!

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I moved out to the sticks in June.

Gas is witchcraft around these parts - whole place only has Oil.

The heating for the house is from a Rayburn. The oven is the boiler ffs. Or something. There's a dial on the oven, you turn that and 1/100 it turns the radiators on. Within 2 hours.

It's starting to get cold and this Rayburn boiler is about as reliable as an Alex Iwobi cross.

I stink. I'm starting to skip showers because I work from home, and it's not worth the hassle of trying to convert oil from a tank outside the house to hot water. I'm not man enough to wash in cold water which I can only assume the rest of Yorkshire do.

Before moving in I thought I'd just throw an Oil Combi Boiler in and I'd be sound. Spoke to a heating engineer earlier who was very critical of Oil Combi Boilers, "now then, they're a flippin nightmayyyre those oil combeees" and he was talking up ground pumps and other hippy ways to get the shower hot.

So my question is.

How long can you realistically go without washing without being a tramp?

How many candles would adequately heat an average size living room?

Where's the best place to get a bed pan and one of those gadgets that you put coal in and put into a bed to warm it up?

And does anyone else live in a land that time forgot and has no gas? What's the best alternative? I'm concerned I could be getting blagged here to install something those freaks who stop traffic want.

It's your house, stink away.

Have you looked into ground source hearing systems? I applied for one of the green home grants for external wall insulation last year. There were a few alternative heating systems on offer. One was a biomass boiler. Looked mad expensive though.

 

[royalblue66]

Get a young nurse to call and give you a bed bath ?

 

[dublinbluenose]

If you are going down the heat exchange pump your engineer is talking about then you need to insulate really well and make sure the house is fairly air tight. Otherwise its a waste of time.

They cost virtually nothing to run as they take heat from the ground and air. It only works in a well insulated house though.

Get a few solar panels and a storage tank and you'll have all the hot water you need.

It'll all be fairly costly but other than maintenance you'll have little expense in the future.

 

[summerisle]

Ever thought of doing some huntin' ?

 

[Bungle]

If you are going down the heat exchange pump your engineer is talking about then you need to insulate really well and make sure the house is fairly air tight. Otherwise its a waste of time.

They cost virtually nothing to run as they take heat from the ground and air. It only works in a well insulated house though.

Get a few solar panels and a storage tank and you'll have all the hot water you need.

It'll all be fairly costly but other than maintenance you'll have little expense in the future.

If you need any help with being made air tight then let us know.

 

[kev]

Have you looked into ground source hearing systems?

Speak up man, I can't hear you.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Speak up man, I can't hear you.

I'm visually impaired clearly, wrong thread / poor proof reading

 

[john jako]

I moved out to the sticks in June.

Gas is witchcraft around these parts - whole place only has Oil.

The heating for the house is from a Rayburn. The oven is the boiler ffs. Or something. There's a dial on the oven, you turn that and 1/100 it turns the radiators on. Within 2 hours.

It's starting to get cold and this Rayburn boiler is about as reliable as an Alex Iwobi cross.

I stink. I'm starting to skip showers because I work from home, and it's not worth the hassle of trying to convert oil from a tank outside the house to hot water. I'm not man enough to wash in cold water which I can only assume the rest of Yorkshire do.

Before moving in I thought I'd just throw an Oil Combi Boiler in and I'd be sound. Spoke to a heating engineer earlier who was very critical of Oil Combi Boilers, "now then, they're a flippin nightmayyyre those oil combeees" and he was talking up ground pumps and other hippy ways to get the shower hot.

So my question is.

How long can you realistically go without washing without being a tramp?

How many candles would adequately heat an average size living room?

Where's the best place to get a bed pan and one of those gadgets that you put coal in and put into a bed to warm it up?

And does anyone else live in a land that time forgot and has no gas? What's the best alternative? I'm concerned I could be getting blagged here to install something those freaks who stop traffic want.

I’ve recently moved out into the sticks. Have to get a kerosene uplift instead of mains gas etc.

You got a coal fire?

Get fat as that helps also.

 

[dublinbluenose]

If you need any help with being made air tight then let us know.

You were the first person I thought of when thinking about plugging holes

 

[The binman chronicles]

All this heat pump talk reminds me of a video I watched a while back. Listen to Rog he knows:

 

[magicjuan]

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