help for rhubarb please - dont be shy pleasey weasy lemon squeezy. information from people who have no mains gas - its not boring honest. help her shes doing her nut in ta

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she can only get on internet infrequently and would like som help regarding moving house

she is considering moving to a house which has no mains gas

d you or do you know of anyone who lives up north and has no mains gas?

how cold are the winters in carlysle
are they just bracing or are they trez wet?

how much are the leccy bills likley to be with no mains gas - she knows it will be more expensive but how much?

is there a partic leccy company or leccy tarriff she should consider?

she has chance to rent house in nice villagey place with small school and good pub - how fab is that - only there is no mains gas and she doesnt want to freeze her tits off - her words- in winter

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No experience and but would bet quite a lot of money on Carlisle being tres wet...

yeah me too

no experience here, but a fair number of houses in deepest cornwall/dartmoor don't have piped gas and lots of them either buy big gas cannister thingies that sit outside the house and connect to a pipe or have oil burners...

so tell more malory - hows your leccy bill? how dya keep kids warm?

Found this in Hansard! MP for Carlisle asked about how many winter fuel payments had been made to old folk in his constituency in 1999:

"In 1998/99, there were 13,157 WFPs made in the Carlisle constituency totalling £283,210. In 1999-00, there were 14,938 payments totalling £1,138,350."

So it must get quite cold...

oh more information on gas canisters and oil burners please

Don't know about Carlyle but my parents live in Scotland in an all electric house and they are never cold. When I was a child the only heating was the electric fire in the lounge - which I used to dry my hair!!

They are pensioners and can afford the bills! (I am not sure what they are on average a quarter - they are on hols at the moment so I can't ask)

oh oppressed one thank you

You mean info from Hansard isn't practical or helpful?

oh fimbo thats very encouraging thanks

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I have no mains gas and have an oil tank in the garden
my hubby can install heating system like we have or different with no mains gas

She knows I live fairly close to where she is moving would be happy to bhelp her
I don't think that the lack of mains gas should stop her moving to a nice place

ni oppressed one i was being sincere with my thanks - sincerity not usually my strong suit i know

same with fimbo - meant it - no sarcasm.

It must be doable or everywhere would have gas.

trinity tell me more aboput oil tank?

yorkshirelass good idea

I was joking babe- was laughing at myself. I know you were being sincere.

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lareg oil tank in garden, oil fueled boiler in the little outhouse thingy we have, radiators all over house run off boiler(also does the hot water)

never been cold (we are in scotland, near where rhubarb is trying to go I think)

Hubby is oftec registered and has own business fitting boilers, whole heating sytems, can do plumbing also.

oil company comes an fills it up when you get low or you ask them to do a top up evey four weeks if you think you might forget

Whilst we do have gas, our central heating is pointless, so we have a multifuel stove which is kept in all winter - it heat output is brilliant and it heats upstairs to a reasonable sleeping temp too (due to chimney). If it is a rural cottage it may have one already?

I think based on the winter fuel payments thing that it can't be that cold. It's paid on age alone, not ability to pay (isn't it?) so that means they are increasing in numbers and not freezing to death!

Ohh. Durrr! Forgot about hot water