mogish
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Post by mogish on Sept 22, 2022 10:28:19 GMT
I use both electric ,logs and heating oil. Its great that we are getting a payment to help with electric , apparently NI are getting £100 towards heating oil , does this apply to UK aswell? Cant find any info anywhere.
Our oil has gone form around 55p litre to £1.04+vat , during covid it was 20p!
Any additional payment would help.
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Post by pikestaff on Sept 22, 2022 13:58:57 GMT
Yes it does. The BBC report is on the Northern Ireland pages, but read down and you will see that the £100 payment is going to "households across the UK who are not able to receive support for their heating costs through the Energy Price Guarantee.
"This might be because they live in an area of the UK that is not served by the gas grid and is to compensate for the rising costs of alternative fuels such as heating oil." |
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Post by mogish on Sept 22, 2022 15:43:34 GMT
So you cant get both then?
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 22, 2022 15:51:22 GMT
Yes it does. The BBC report is on the Northern Ireland pages, but read down and you will see that the £100 payment is going to "households across the UK who are not able to receive support for their heating costs through the Energy Price Guarantee.
"This might be because they live in an area of the UK that is not served by the gas grid and is to compensate for the rising costs of alternative fuels such as heating oil."Interesting. My father is on electric but also LPG. That sounds like a subsidy for LPG may be available. Also he is 90+ : anyone know if there are age related subsidies/benefits which are not automatic/have to be applied for ? He is not on pension credit
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Post by pikestaff on Sept 23, 2022 7:28:49 GMT
So you cant get both then? I'm not sure what you mean by "both". As I read it, the £100 support for alternative fuels is in addition to the £400 rebate but is not available if you have mains gas. AFAICS there is no detail yet to back up the announcement (including how the £100 will be paid and whether it will be automatic or have to be applied for). This MSE report might be updated as and when more detail emerges.
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Post by mogish on Sept 23, 2022 11:20:28 GMT
So you cant get both then? I'm not sure what you mean by "both". As I read it, the £100 support for alternative fuels is in addition to the £400 rebate but is not available if you have mains gas. AFAICS there is no detail yet to back up the announcement (including how the £100 will be paid and whether it will be automatic or have to be applied for). This MSE report might be updated as and when more detail emerges. By both I mean oil and electric. Surely the best way would be to apply the oil "discount " at the point of purchase. Easily monitored by applying only once to that postcode account?
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Post by mostlywrong on Sept 23, 2022 14:05:55 GMT
My supplier has a 15 working day delivery schedule which is a real pain when one has a small tank!
I reckon I am a week or so away from ordering.
So, I am 4 weeks away from a large bill. If the Government helps, I will be grateful (*).
And, yes, I have insulated the house - my oil consumption has more than halved compared to the first 2 years of occupation.
I also note that the price for logs for the woodburner are up 20%.
MW
* but probably not sufficiently grateful to vote for the idiot of a local MP who appears to be more interested in feathering his own nest than supporting his constituents.
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Post by mogish on Sept 23, 2022 14:56:19 GMT
My supplier has a 15 working day delivery schedule which is a real pain when one has a small tank!
I reckon I am a week or so away from ordering.
So, I am 4 weeks away from a large bill. If the Government helps, I will be grateful (*).
And, yes, I have insulated the house - my oil consumption has more than halved compared to the first 2 years of occupation.
I also note that the price for logs for the woodburner are up 20%.
MW
* but probably not sufficiently grateful to vote for the idiot of a local MP who appears to be more interested in feathering his own nest than supporting his constituents.
Logs here can be as much as £120 per builders bag. Personally I am still hunting about picking up logs where I can for free but it gets harder as I get older and more people are doing the same around here. I hear where you are coming from re MP. I requested a meeting for our village community council with 2 local councillors, one agreed and failed to show, the other I'm still waiting on responding.
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Post by Mike on Sept 28, 2022 18:07:43 GMT
Personally I am still hunting about picking up logs where I can for free but it gets harder as I get older and more people are doing the same around here. This is simple theft. If you don't own the land and the tree, you can't take the timber without permission. *Edit to say the law changed relatively recently on this - but for several years taking twigs branches or logs from land that isn't yours without permission is stealing - you're even legally obliged to offer back anything you cut from a neighbour's overhanging plant. Please don't encourage taking things that aren't yours
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Post by adrianc on Sept 28, 2022 19:02:29 GMT
If anybody wants logs, I have a LOAD exchangeable for wine, but you'll need to split 'em yourself. Ash, felled last year. If you're early, then you don't have to drag the 1.5m x 12m trunk up the slope...
We're on bulk LPG. Not a word so far from our supplier, Avanti.
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Post by Mike on Sept 28, 2022 19:11:37 GMT
We are oil (or wood when I can be bothered to heat the 2000l store).
I believe the £100 will be cash since many oil fired homes may only buy once a year (our oil tank is -also- 2000 litres), there'd be no other way to do it?
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 28, 2022 20:08:43 GMT
If anybody wants logs, I have a LOAD exchangeable for wine, but you'll need to split 'em yourself. Ash, felled last year. If you're early, then you don't have to drag the 1.5m x 12m trunk up the slope... We're on bulk LPG. Not a word so far from our supplier, Avanti.when you get one, please let me know. They are my father's supplier. Ash: only ever put in a log burner. Never an open fire. Spits like hell (or so I remember from my childhood).
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Post by travolta on Sept 28, 2022 20:19:02 GMT
One of my better investments : 22 acres woodland .  smug face. |
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Post by keitha on Sept 28, 2022 22:23:03 GMT
If anybody wants logs, I have a LOAD exchangeable for wine, but you'll need to split 'em yourself. Ash, felled last year. If you're early, then you don't have to drag the 1.5m x 12m trunk up the slope... We're on bulk LPG. Not a word so far from our supplier, Avanti.when you get one, please let me know. They are my father's supplier. Ash: only ever put in a log burner. Never an open fire. Spits like hell (or so I remember from my childhood). Ash was fine, Pine etc spit, Oak burns slowly with little flame, Silver Birch produces hardly any heat. I remember being told years ago by a tree surgeon that the very best wood to burn was blackthorn, but it needs to be handled with care.
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Post by bracknellboy on Sept 29, 2022 7:15:59 GMT
when you get one, please let me know. They are my father's supplier. Ash: only ever put in a log burner. Never an open fire. Spits like hell (or so I remember from my childhood). Ash was fine, Pine etc spit, Oak burns slowly with little flame, Silver Birch produces hardly any heat. I remember being told years ago by a tree surgeon that the very best wood to burn was blackthorn, but it needs to be handled with care. I was sure our ash used to spit. Memory and age. I was thinking we barely used pine, but possible that we did as there is managed forestry to one side. Maybe we barely used it BECAUSE it spat. :-) On the otherhand, ash was always a lovely easy wood to split. Oak is great: a wonderful yuletide log. On the subject of burning pine. A friend of ours always insisted on burning pine from the land across the road. 'Cos it was free. He lived in a thatched cottage. And I don't think the flue on his log burner was every properly done. Not a good mix. Xmas day the roof went up. the FB did manage to staunch it without losing the entire thatch/roof. Undettered, next Xmas the same happened again to his newly repaired roof. Still was lucky in that he didn't lose the whole lot. The FB asked him whether they should book him in for the following year. A few years later the whole lot went up. Managed to keep the structure of the house though. You can't fix stupid.
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smug face.