What's the most cost effective way of heating a house?

I’m confident having the stove going in one hot room is cheaper than warming 3 rooms to the point where they are not uncomfortably cold.

Yup that’s what we’re doing. We didn’t have the stoves last winter so the CH was the only way to heat the house and we ended up with a ridiculous bill of around 300 quid a month. The stove is on pretty much every evening now, and the CH only goes on if my mum is visiting. Luckily we had 3 trees cut down last year so have a massive amount of wood, although it could do with drying out a bit more. The bloody aga still costs something like 5 quid a day though.

+1 totalshell

When we had a newish house we controlled the heating through the thermostat. Turned to 20c when we were in, and to 15c when either we went to bed or were out.

Bills were cheap and house was always warm.

The bloody aga still costs something like 5 quid a day though.

Are you sure it’s this much, ours averages £3 at the current oil price.

Lots of lodgers or pets for body heat. Open fire and skip wood/drift wood.

(i know the reason is so you have warm dry towels to dry delicate hands on after washing them after the loo…..)

It’s also so you don’t have damp towels that go stinky in a surprisingly short time. Plus it’s nice to be warm when you hop out of the bath.

Heard on the radio that oil is currently the cheapest per unit source, but I can promise you that isn’t always the case.

TBH in answer to the OP if it’s in the UK, it’s likely to be insulated and “sealed” to the absolute legal minimum. So anything you heat it with is going to cost you a fair bit.
I was pretty amazed at how cheap our new place was to heat, even when it switched over to pure electric when a valve failed. It’s 4 or 5 times the size of either of my last two places in the UK, and costs about the same as the modernised 1940s mid terrace did to heat. And about 75% of the cost of an 80s build end terrace.

If it’s your place, I’d be looking at what improvements you can make to save the heat you’ve already got rather than anything else.