Oil-fired boiler & bottled gas for cooking

[KittyKK]

We’re finalising an offer on an older property. They’ve done a high spec renovation of downstairs and installed a new boiler and oil tank...

They use an oil-fired boiler for heating and bottled gas for cooking (lovely big range cooker). Has anyone got feedback on these?

We’ve only ever been connected to mainline gas before (this place is more rural than previous homes, so we can’t change existing supplies). Thanks!

Should add that their existing range cooker is dual fuel (so electric ovens). The bottled gas is only needed for cooking.

I do not like having to store the bottles for gas. We had oil fired central heating etc (now air source heat pump) as no gas in the village but my neighbours have a huge gas tank. It is very large and ugly. However, some poeple will only cook on gas but I love my electric induction hob and do not covet a range cooker at all! So no gas cylinders here or a huge tank. No-one else in the (very small) village has gas cylinders either. Just the one house. So I think most people do not want has cylinders now there are wonderful induction hobs.

This is exactly what we have and it works well. We hardly ever have to change the gas bottles and our oil tank has a remote receiver inside the house so we can easily see when we need to order more.

This is exactly what we have too! We have a large 5 rung gas hob, and I cook from scratch every day, as well as lots of dinner parties and 15 people for Christmas, and it absolutely brilliant. It costs us a total of about £40 - £50 a year!

We're on oil for heating and bottled gas for cooking. I much prefer gas to electric for cooking, plus wanted to still be able to function in a power cut. Two large cylinders easily lasts me a year, cooking pretty much every day, range style cooker.

I live rurally and this is our set-up too. It works fine and I much prefer the gas for hob cooking (our ovens are also electric). Most people here have the same, but my MIL hates her electric hob. We always have a bottle connected and a spare so we've never run out yet.

The point about a power cut is also very relevant where we are too.

Same here, has hob with bottles and oil heating, works well. DH goes and gets our bottles but my sister has hers delivered and changed

Here too - oil heating, LPG hob. Two big bottles outside , each one lasts about ten months of twice daily cooking. Just a hob though, a range may guzzle the stuff.

Always runs out at night but is the work of moments to switch bottles. Goodbye to terrible electric hobs, and power cut proof too. Common set up here.

The bottles are chained and padlocked although I think theft is unlikely, they only cost £35 so cheaper to run than an electric hob.

We had that set up in our last house. Gas tanks for the hob and gas fire and oil heating. It worked well.

We have this, using bottled gas on a 5 ring range, (with two electric ovens and a electric grill) just paid for two 19kg gas bottles to be delivered £75 in total these last a long time. They are outside the kitchen but hidden with a wooden cover (to match the weatherboarding on our converted barn) and a regulator - when one runs out, we switch over to the other and replace the empty one immediately, so that we never run out of gas completely (and keep a spare elsewhere).

You should check the regulator occasionally - it should have an automatic cut off for safety.

We also have oil fired central heating - shop around for oil to get the best price, try to buy it in the summer when it is cheaper, and keep your oil tank locked, and if possible out of sight from the road.

Bubblesbuddy, I would be interested to hear whether your air source heat pump has been cost effective, when our boilers reach the end of their lives we are thinking of replacing with either airsource or ground source heat pumps.