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Hi, just brought a bungalow with no gas in the area, so we will get a propane tank fitted & be able to have a boiler & cooking via gas.
Question is! Can we get a boiler fitted in the loft on a gable end wall. & continue to the gas hob via the loft, or is it not allowed. Naturally marking of pipes & appropriate detectors would be fitted.

Thanks,

Chris.

Chris, why are you heating your home with LPG?? There's much cheaper fuels for home heating.
For example you could fit an oil boiler & have a couple of gas cylinders for cooking.
That would be much cheaper.

If you're home is well insulated, you could fit a geothermal heat pump - you can afford it?? Even an air source heat pump would be a cheaper to run than LPG, but your house needs to be well insulated!!
HTH

Hi Dick Puller, at the moment LPG is a touch cheaper per KW than oil. An oil tank is around £1000.00 just to buy, where a gas tank just cost me £400.00 fitted with pipe work to the house. (They are doing good deals on gas tanks at the mo) & the gas boiler i have got for a 4 bed bungalow cost £750.00 where as an oil equivalent is around £1400.00 minimum. Gives me around a £12-1500.00 saving in the 1st year.
On the heat pump or air pump, i am fortunate that i have the space & land for either, but they are just not financially viable for a single person like myself. We have been involved with sites that have fitted these & they seem to pay for themselves on larger installations but take far to long for a payback on a place my size. This is also assuming nothing goes wrong in the 1st 10 years.

Cheers

Chris