Hello
We have a "room heater" fire made by Parkray which powers our central heating: you load it up with coal, the back boiler in it gets heated (as well as the room) and you shut a glass door on the front to keep the heat & smoke in. It works well - the central heating pump sends water in a sealed system round the radiators in each room and through the back boiler. It looks a bit like this one:
so: how much (typically) will it cost to fit a boiler in place of the room heater, plumb in an outside oil tank big enough to drive a 3 bed semi, and plumb the tank and boiler together with water and electricity as needed?
Or would LPG be a better bet (no mains gas available and electricity is too costly)?
Thanks for any pointers or best guesses or experience
DDS