Recent content by lworbey

I appreciate all the replies, thanks I'll look into all the things that people have been suggesting. It amuses me that people talk about the heating only in terms of return on your money where I am more concerned with other factors and as for throwing money away well people buy really expensive...

No I wouldn't mind at all, obviously I have to be able to afford it but at the end of the day, doing as much as I can for the environment is most important for me. Firstly that means cutting out burning gas and obviously I can't control how the electricity that I pull from the grid was generated...

Yes I am aware of the optimum times for solar. The solar during the day would purely top up the battery to mean less is drawn from the grid in the evenings and of course during the winter we'll end up pulling more from the grid due to shorter days etc. It would mean the summers are a lot cheaper...

I would definitely put a lot of effort into getting the insulation in the house up to as high a standard as possible. Yeah I'm starting to discover that electric underfloor isn't something to use as a main heating solution. As for using solar, that wouldn't be the sole source, it would only...

Thanks for the reply, I've had another read of Air Source Heat Pumps regarding underfloor heating following your comments and like you say they suggest this is more efficient than using rads so perhaps I should reconsider this. If I am renovating and extending then I suppose having all the...

I am intending to move house later this year and was intending to buy a house that needs renovating and has space to extend. I intend to remove any gas supply for various reasons including the gradual move away from gas and the fact that although I cannot generate my own gas, I can generate...