LPG Comparison Site for Heating the Home
Searching through the internet there seems to be no Comparison for LPG home heating. Like many LPG consumers I feel that I am stuck with my one provider (Calor) and have great difficulty in seeking other distributors and more importantly what prices they charge.
Are you unhappy with your current LPG home heating supplier?
Are you fed up with receiving letters from your supplier telling you the price of LPG is going up yet again?
Are you charged a ridiculous amount of money for renting a tank that’s sitting in your garden?
Tell us so we can let others know.
Or are you pleased with your current supplier?
Have you got a great deal?
How much do you pay per litre, is it the cheapest?
How much rent to you pay for that tank resting at the bottom of your garden or is it for free?
So, do you feel if you had the correct information you could get a better deal?
- This site is dedicated to searching out the cheapest prices and the best deals for the LPG home consumer.
- Each month we will strive to provide information of the best LPG prices and deals available for home heating.
Watch this space for further details.
Hi Pat,
Please take a look at my post re “installing a storage tank” this will give you a rough idea of whats involved with details of distances and measurements. Interestingly the original details were produced by Calor so it maybe worth checking their website.
Has something been built or installed near to the tank over the last ten years? I presume there must have been some change for Calor to now require the tank to be moved. Burying the tank can prove to be expensive especially when trying to find someone to dig the hole. In my case Calor would not dig the hole but I was fortunate enough to have a local farmer with a mini digger. Be on your guard!
Regards
Dickie
Just a quick update. Countrywide agreed to 41p without having to go as a syndicate. Everyone just ask your supplier for a lower price, they all want to keep you as customers in these tough times
Good morning all,
This a good site and I’m glad I found it. I’m posting here because My wife and I currently investigating our options as to how to continue heting my off-mains two bedroom cottagein SW Scotland. I came here because from my research so far, LPG seems an appealing option in many ways.
Let me first describe our circumstances. We have lived in the cottage now for five years. It is owned by my grandparentsbut they allow us to treat it as our own. At the moment, we heat it using a 12kw solid-fuel stove fired by anthracite. The house s warm and the anthracite is not desperatley expensive in my opinion (we spend around £850 p.a. on coal which provides all our heating requirements). The stove supplies hot water to five radiators (three of which are doubles).
However, we have one or two issues with our current setup. We both work shifts meaning that it can often be difficult to tend to the stove on the strict timetable it requires to keep burning. Also, when we light itin early october it stays on until late March 24 hrs a day. This means that outside of that timescale, especially spring and autumn, we have no capability for a “quick heat_up” on cold mornings and evenings. Even in the winter the house actually oftne becomes far too hot due to constant heat output! We need 50kg of coal delivered every week and the house has become a mess due to dust everywhere.
For these reasons, we wish to install a ‘normal’ central heating system. We don’t possess the capital for a renewables based solution and as off-mains we therefore have two realistic options (other than remaining solid-fuel) – oil and LPG.
I have a number of issues with oil – much higher installation costs, purchase, site preparation and installtion of a storage tank and the liability if any spillages occur. Not to mention the rocketing cost of heating oil (though I do recognise LPG is by no means immune to this either).
LPG appears to be a cheaper option in terms of installation, very important as our budget is limited. We can rent rather than purchase a tank outright and from what I can see, LPG unit costs are much more competitive versus oil than has been the case historically.
I have a number of questions though:
– For a n approx 100sqm one-storey, 2 bedroom house with modest insulation and single glazing, do you think we would use more than 2000 litres p.a. for heating and hot water only (no cooking) with the heating typically on for, say, 4-5 hrs per day?
– Given that we have radiators and pipework already in place, how much would you expect installation to cost (only very roughly).
– Would calor, for instance, install the tank at no extra cost to us outside rental costs?
– Might it be possible to retain our multi-fuel stove system and run it in sepest winter (Nov, Dec, Jan) and only use the LPG boiler outside of these months? i.e. a link-up or hybrid system to keep LPG usage down.
– Am I a fool to even consider LPG or oil at this time given the growing oil and gas scarcity?
I apologise for such a long post and alos if I have hi-jacked this thread a little but I’m really keen to find out how existing LPG-users feel about their system and gather opinion so that I make the right decision as it would be a big investment for us.
Thank you.
Hi William, Welcome to the blog.
You have a fair few questions that I will try to answer but please bare in mind I am not qualified technically with regard to LPG, but have many years of experience in dealing with numerous LPG and oil companies.
1. – – For a n approx 100sqm one-storey, 2 bedroom house with modest insulation and single glazing, do you think we would use more than 2000 litres p.a. for heating and hot water only (no cooking) with the heating typically on for, say, 4-5 hrs per day?
Answer: No, I own a 3 bedroomed house with 11 rads and LPG cooker, I generally have the heating on for approx 3 hrs per day, Oct/Nov to March. My last refill with my 2000 litre tank was Feb 2011, it is funnily enough about to be refilled this week as it has less than 5% left. However, before you spend any money make sure you get FULL insulation and double glazing. This is vital to you saving money with whatever heating system you go with.
2.– Given that we have radiators and pipework already in place, how much would you expect installation to cost (only very roughly).
Answer: this is tricky and prices will vary with each supplier, your best bet is to ring round and see what each company is prepared to offer.
3– Would Calor, for instance, install the tank at no extra cost to us outside rental costs? Answer: Again depends on what you can get from each company, originally in my case with Calor no, and I had to pay separately to get my underground tank fitted.
4– Might it be possible to retain our multi-fuel stove system and run it in sepest winter (Nov, Dec, Jan) and only use the LPG boiler outside of these months? i.e. a link-up or hybrid system to keep LPG usage down. Answer: Not as a duplicate system, however I used my wood burner which was originally connected up to the central heating as an extra fire in our sitting room which makes a hell of a difference!
5– Am I a fool to even consider LPG or oil at this time given the growing oil and gas scarcity? Answer: LPG and OIL are expensive especially in this current climate. (Current rates vary from approx 40ppl to 71ppl). There are ways and means of reducing costs, syndicates etc but I suspect from what you tell me you are located out in the sticks. I encourage all my blog readers to haggle haggle haggle until the companies are sick of them and this has been proven to get results.
Hope this has helped in some way and please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further information. Best regards – Dickie
Hi Sue, Interesting comment, I have just come off the phone with Countrywide and they quoted me the current Unit price of 54.6 ppl………….I’m too polite to actually tell you what I said to them but we are now currently in negotiations!
Thank you Dickie for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it.
I expected as much with the tank installation so that’s fine. However, it since turns out that siting regulations for LPG tanks leave me with a real headache. The 3m buffer between the tank and any building was fine, I though, plenty room round the back. However, then I found out about the 25m from the delivery lorry and the need for the driver to see his vehicle from the tank at all times. I won’t bore you with the details of our layout but believe me when I say that the nature of our property makes this impossible in my opinion. I’ll need a proper site assessment to confirm.
As regards running costs, I also posted on another forum and some energy industry professionals who post there seemed to concur that an LPG system should cost about the same to run for my household as my current anthracite system. That is acceptable to us especially as we would gain the convenience that we crave so much.
We’re still mulling over our options, once we have had oil and LPG installations priced we’ll have a clearer idea of what we want to/can do.
Cheers!
Have just read the comments to date.This morning realised my bulk tank is down to 25%,my safe ordering date.Asked flogas for a quote,result, 45.8ppl for new customer using less than 2500l per year.
Rang my present supplier-Calor for todays price??? 56.4ppl!!!!Told the person I have three better prices than theirs and flogas being the best.{bluff]I would have to wait a few days as the supervisor is in ameeting all day today.Said I couldnt wait! Ten minutes later phone rings-Calor match flogas by reducing price to 48.6ppl fixed for 6 months plus £60 credit on my next order.Down side have to sign up for 2 years contract.Only get out from this is if price increases by more than 3.5ppl in any 3 months.Will be watching things closely from now on.Also have just discovered LPG Solutions website which will negotiate/find best prices for you.Anyone due to order LPG allow at least 4 weeks to change to a new supplier.So my advice is try LPG Solutions for free!
Good luck. Tony
Well done Tony, sounds like a reasonable deal; thanks for the info on the LPG solutions website, I will add them to my website addresses page.
Regards
Dickie
My Flogas bill is ridiculous £100 a month I am a single parent with special needs child and have been offered no help at all in paying.
I am reallyn unhappy with Flogas
Hi Juliet,
You don’t say if this is bottled LPG or a tank, if it’s a tank how much are you paying per litre?
Are you under contract and if so how long has it got to run?
Regards – Dickie