Replace ing oil boiler with what ?

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Asking for a friend who lives in remote location.

They currently have an old ( 30years plus) oil boiler as no mains gas.

Options we have chatted through on the phone yesterday were :

1. Replace with new oil boiler

1. Replace with LPG boiler and bew lpg tank

1. Replace with electric boiler

1. Replace with some new method that neither of us knew anything about - pellets - or heat from air ? Or from ground ? But that's where the knowledges is lacking!

Can anyone help us work out a good solution please. TIA

1750 ish in places. Wow!

Yes,fossil fuels bad. Don't use biomass either, absolute greenwash.Solar panels pollute massively at source. Wind turbines impractical, unreliable and short lived. Electric prices rocketing.

Home nuclear power station?

Whatever we do, we pollute. Something very odd about that house though given the colossal oil use. Oil theft does happen of course.

If you have an old oil boiler it's likely thrashing away and eating oil. Modern ones are far more efficient - even a new oil boiler would be better than what you have now.

My cottage has no double glazing, freezing cold, pathetic insultation so an ASHP would be hard work. It's pre 1750 as well.

Which is why electric worked out well for me even though every tradesperson thinks it's odd I've got one.

It might be worth having some sort of environmental/heating survey done, that way your friends can see if there is anything that is leaking heat etc. Their oil usage seems excessive for the size of house and the time that they heat it .I mentioned our consumption earlier, we are both retired and had the heating on quite a bit more than you mention.
I would stop the topping up contract, get their own wireless monitor, and top up when needed. Ringing around for quotes takes a bit of time, but it's worth it. In rural areas there are often buying groups which are worth investigating.
Investing in decent insulation is cost effective.

@121hugsneeded it will be your oil fired aga that is consuming oil like no tomorrow. My parents had oil fired heating and an oil fired aga and their fuel bill was over £600 a month in winter (large Cotswold stone house poorly insulated). Aga's are greedy buggers.

Ah it's not my friends with the aga ( ie my posts - it's my friends house)