Can I join the STW Oil family?
I feel the AGA pain, not personally mind, but we’ve got some friends who’ve just moved in down the road and have used >3000L of oil over the spring/summer as its their only form of cooking appliance.
Oddly they’ve just found some room in their kitchen for a freestanding oven/hob…
I feel the AGA pain, not personally mind, but we’ve got some friends who’ve just moved in down the road and have used >3000L of oil over the spring/summer as its their only form of cooking appliance.
Oddly they’ve just found some room in their kitchen for a freestanding oven/hob…
Doing something wrong and/or not been serviced (for ever?).
We’ve a permanently on AGA, and use 3,000l per YEAR – also has the internal water ‘boiler’, so endless hot water and a huge old-fashioned bath. Have no other means of cooking.
Also, have they actually been taught/learned how to cook on an AGA?
If they use the hot plates for pans/kettles etc, then no, they’re using it wrong. Electric kettle for boiling water and ALL pans go in the ovens (except steak pan – LH top plate or butter warming – RH top plate).
This lady is very good, we went to a demo when we knew we were ‘inheriting’ an AGA.
Just bought 500 litres at 79.65p/l. It’s insane that I’m thinking that’s cheap as I paid 14p/l in May 2020.
Happily, my tank, which I thought was down to the last 10%, turns out to be half full still. Now, if I keep the heating off, by the spring I should still have a full tank! 🥶😏
Duncancallum as you’re in the business do you know anything about the £100 rebate? I still cant find anything about how to actually claim it, despite it being mentioned in several places
That sounds a similar setup to theirs. We’re frugal by comparison at home, stingy with the heating and only fires up for 1 hour twice a day for hot water. We do have insulation however, our friends….well, don’t!
If you have an Aga you can switch it to low flow overnight (just stick it on a cheap timer, when it loses power it’ll switch to low flow automatically) and have it come back on about 30 mins before you get up. Will save a huge amount of oil.
Can also consider sticking a thermocouple in the shell next to the top oven and using a programmable thermostat with PID control to hold it at 240C.
Or will it drop soon..? The weakness in Sterling isn’t exactly helping. Diesel prices are suggesting a noticeable hike, yet of course the cost of extracting and processing the stuff at Grangemouth hasn’t changed any, the industry is happily gouging yet again.
If you have an Aga you can switch it to low flow overnight (just stick it on a cheap timer, when it loses power it’ll switch to low flow automatically) and have it come back on about 30 mins before you get up. Will save a huge amount of oil.
Based on us actually doing this and then monitoring usage vs leaving on, saved the square root of FA.
The Alternative Fuel Payment (<abbr title=”Alternative Fuel Payment”>AFP</abbr>) will provide a one-off payment to UK households that use alternative fuels for heating, such as heating oil or <abbr title=”Liquefied Petroleum Gas”>LPG</abbr>, instead of mains gas… Households eligible for these payments will receive £100 as a credit on their electricity bill this winter.
Isn’t it vouchers or they apply a credit for prepayment folks? There does need to be some way of claiming this via a website IMO. Nearly impossible to validate though.
Households who are eligible for but who do not receive <abbr title=”Alternative Fuel Payment”>AFP</abbr> or the £100 heat network payment, because they do not have a relationship with an electricity supplier for example, will receive the £100 via the <abbr title=”Alternative Fuel Payment”>AFP</abbr> Alternative Fund which will be provided by a designated body. We will confirm details of the <abbr title=”Alternative Fuel Payment”>AFP</abbr> Alternative Fund shortly.
Quick update. Just ordered 1000ltrs at £0.82p per litre. Dropped a little and might go down further but down to 1 bar on 1250ltr tank. Rather than being dropped into the septic tank I thought I’d better press the button before we ran out. With some due diligence; turning off unnecessary rads, using the tvrs properly, setting the stat at 16° and cuddling up a bit more it should see us to April for water and heat in a 4 bed house. Only 2 of us now due to empty nest 😦
Only two of us here now and we’ve got by with just the stove so far but my eldest daughter is home for the weekend tomorrow with her BF – apparently I’ve got to put the heating on 😣
Think I’ve got about 600L still but the price is nearly low enough to buy another 500L which would see us through hopefully.
Yeah, my wife’s parents are coming to stay over Christmas and new year, no doubt with numerous scroungers and opportunists from her family staying over as well ‘cos we live 70 miles away and they expect to, don’t they? That two weeks will equate to about 6 weeks of normal energy use (heating, water,cooking, laundry, endless cups of tea and coffee). Hey ho but it’s a nice thing to do 😕
78.7p for us this week, through the local cooperative in the village.
I’m installing Hive with clever TRVs soon in an attempt to make the CH more efficient, particularly whilst most of the children are away during term time.
The very old Aga provides a core heat to the house throughout the day, but it’s still getting quite nippy.
Gov still working very hard to figure out how we can get our £100 still 🙄
From Daily Record 4 days ago…
The UK Government will confirm details of the AFP Alternative Fund and when the payment will be made shortly.
The guidance states: “The £100 payment has been calculated to ensure that a typical customer using heating oil does not face a higher rate of growth in their heating costs since last winter, in comparison to those using mains gas who are supported by the Energy Price Guarantee.”
The UK Government said it will continue to monitor the prices of alternative fuels, such as heating oil, and will consider further intervention if required to protect households from extraordinary fuel prices.
Though our main issue is it’s costing us £30 a week on prepayment for electric just now and that’s with sensible use, short showers, a few washing loads a week and no tumble driers or this like that.
I’ve just had an email from one of my oil suppliers stating:
“The government has confirmed how the Alternative Fuel Payment Scheme for domestic heating oil users will be administered.
The £100 payment will be made through electricity bills NOT fuel distributors.
Although it is still NOT CLEAR when this will be paid”
