Heating

The house has oil fired central heating which was installed many years ago. We found, last year, that the spare bedroom, sitting room and dining room did not get very warm at all. The dining room has an open fireplace which looks very good when it is burning but of course most of the heat goes up the chimney. For this winter, partly due to the rise in price of oil and partly because of the above problem, we decided to change the heating in the house.Wood supplies seem to be plentiful and cheap in this part of the world so we are going to have an "insert" fitted in the dining room fireplace. We shall be able to heat the whole of the house with this as the heat will be taken from the chimney into the attic and from there, with the help of a small motor and insulated piping, taken to the rest of the house. It seems that we are not the only people taking this step as all the installers are incredibly busy and we can't have the insert fitted until early January. Hopefully it won't get too cold before then. Another advantage of this is that we will get a 50% tax refund on the price of the insert which is very helpful.