Tank Gas v Oil

[nod]

A friend of ours Has a cottage that is heated via a boiler that runs off oil His boiler has packed up and his oil supplier has suggested supplying him with tanked gas 

Hes asked me which would be the best and most cost effective 

My answer was I don’t know 

But I may know a man who does ?

[SteamyTea]

Generally LPG is more expensive than oil.

And you can be locked into a single supplier.

 

But has he considered an ASHP?

[ProDave]

Why did he contact the oil supplier when the oil boiler backed up?  A heating engineer experienced in oil boilers would be my choice.

 

Almost certainly the boiler can be repaired for a lot less than changing anything.

[markc]

Oil burners are very simple engineering, easy to repair (unless its the water jacket etc) fans are nothing special, burners are much easier to fix and service that gas 

[nod]

Thank you for the replies 

Really helpful Hes out on the Welsh borders Elderly and quite isolated It does seem like the supplier wants him to change over to gas 

I’ll arrange for an engineer to go out and see if the boiler can be fixed 

Thanks again 

[SteamyTea]

4 hours ago, nod said:

Hes out on the Welsh borders Elderly and quite isolated

He may be able to get a system fitted for free, like Zoot did.

[recoveringbuilder]

21 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

He may be able to get a system fitted for free, like Zoot did.

Neighbour of my brothers had a free oil boiler fitted two years ago on one of these schemes, she has more often than not had no heating, always something wrong with it to the point where she’s had it taken out and paid for it to be replaced 

[SteamyTea]

1 minute ago, recoveringbuilder said:

free oil boiler fitted two years ago on one of these schemes

You not read Zoots tales of woe and incompetence then.

Though personally I think his system is fine, just needs turning on for more than a few minutes.