How do you manage your central heating?

PeterN · Post by **PeterN** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:38 am

... I put another shovel full of coal on the fire.

Peter

Post by **Welly** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:41 am

Oh right, not too good financially then, you think you wouldn't even get back what you paid for it to begin with? hopefully thing will improve in time you never know. I guess it's not costing that much to have it stood there and at least you have somewhere to escape to if needed

Post by **Welly** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:42 am

Damn, sorry Peter missed your reply.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:01 am

I find my gauge in my oil tank likes to stick half way through the "tube". It's like a pea-sized floating ball in there - like a kettle. To "unstick" it, there's a knob at the bottom that I have to pull, to equalise the level in the tank with that in the tube. Been bitten like that once... and had to bleed the fuel pump in the boiler after an overdue top-up. Result: got completely sprayed in oil .. but a working boiler.

Now I keep a much closer eye on it.

I wonder if oil heating is cheaper than gas heating....?

Post by **steve_earwig** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:40 am

Mate of mine had something similar, his tube actually blocked up with crap at the bottom.

I don't have to bleed this burner, I just light it up a couple of times and it seems to sort itself out.

I don't know about gas, if there was any up my road I might investigate (it stops about half a mile short) but I hear all sorts of horror stories about shockingly huge bills hitting the doormat. Most people I know here with gas also run a wood burner in the house so they don't rely on it too much. Our neighbour here did that until they found they couldn't keep up with the charges so they got rid of gas a couple of years ago and went back to wood. I helped them sell the gas boiler as they don't have a computer or owt, huge thing it was made by Viesmann, but despite being a couple of years old from a good make it went for peanuts as nobody wanted it.

PeterN · Post by **PeterN** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:51 pm

We don't have any gas within a few of miles of us. We have an oil fired Rayburn but don't use it to much, although its a pressure jet it still uses a lot of oil. We use anthracite on the stove in the coldest weather, I've just been sitting in front of it as are the dog and cats, lovely, and logs which we have an abundance of or at least will have when I have cut up all the trees that fell down last year, we use them in the spring and autumn when its no quite so cold.

Peter

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