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Hi All,

Can anybody help me?

We inherited a '70's bungalow which was designed for oil-fired warm air - you know, the system where a large tin can had a coil around it and vents at floor and ceiling level distributed the heat. When the communal oil became uneconomic storage heaters were put in on Economy10. We put a multifuel burner in the boiler house and until recently burnt pallets - cheap and efficient but time consuming and dirty, requiring a lot of physical effort which is becoming a problem.

We have no access to natural gas, have no room for LPG bulk storage, concrete floors, grey hair and arthritis!

In the dim and distant past I remember a system which used a large tank with two immersion heaters, using Economy10. We have solar pv with a diverter to the immersion heater and feel that the sort of system I envisage would be relatively economic but am having trouble finding a suitable thermal store/cylinder.

Do we need a heat exchange unit?

Any suggestions will be welcome.
 
Either simple Air-Air heat pump, Some new builds that's all they have
or Air - water (ASHP) heat pump and a fan coil unit in the warm air ducts.

Boith very simple installations (for the right people...beware some people aren't the right people)

@Twistgrip where in the country are you?
 
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