Is this normal Oil Usage for Winter

[Agile]

The average bill for fuel is not about £1400 pa.

If you say £1200 for heating and then only for six months then that's £200 per month during the winter.

Oil is about 6p / kwh compared with gas at about 3-4p/kwh.

So £300 per month during the winter seems to be what you should expect.

Of course you have not updated your controls which seems very silly to me when they could probably save you 15-20% of the cost of oil!

Tony

 

[dcawkwell]

Get someone out who knows what they are doing.
Turn the boiler thermostat down to minimum.
Fit a wall thermostat and thermostatic valves to all radiator apart from one where wall thermostat is. Hot water tank thermostat if you don't have one.
Loft insulation. Double glazing. Stop walking around in shorts and a T shirt.
Thick woolly jumper.

should sort the problem.

Stop heating the whole house all day just heat the rooms you are in.

 

[Boilerman2]

Turn the boiler thermostat down to minimum.

And just how will that help exactly?? (apart from rotting out the heat exchanger due to acid dewpoint etc etc!) if the boiler is running at 75-80'c the rads will heat the house much quicker, and satisfy cylinder stats which will use less fuel in the long term! -your commnets about Cyliner stats and room stats however are valid and should be fitted, this is the only way to reduce your fuel bill!