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I heat my domestic hot water with oil in the Summer, using simple time, no thermostat, ½ hour every other day, plus Sunday so 4 days a week which works out cheaper than electric, really 20 minutes as boiler always cuts out after 20 minutes.
So likely also cheaper to heat a room with oil, I can select which rooms heat up, 9 electronic TRV heads in the house.
However pain lighting the wood burner so do have an oil filler radiator as stand-by should the oil central heating not work for some reason. We use flat under house as storage, and at some point each year the oil heater goes down, and AC comes up.
Only problem with oil heaters is the way the thermostat is bolted on the end, again and again when PAT testing found the main body not earthed as poor connection, I have lost count of times I have unbolted the control at end, cleaned and put on petroleum jelly to stop a repeat and reassembled it.
So likely also cheaper to heat a room with oil, I can select which rooms heat up, 9 electronic TRV heads in the house.
However pain lighting the wood burner so do have an oil filler radiator as stand-by should the oil central heating not work for some reason. We use flat under house as storage, and at some point each year the oil heater goes down, and AC comes up.
Only problem with oil heaters is the way the thermostat is bolted on the end, again and again when PAT testing found the main body not earthed as poor connection, I have lost count of times I have unbolted the control at end, cleaned and put on petroleum jelly to stop a repeat and reassembled it.