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Suitable heating system choice

Good morning.

My daughter is going to be buying her own house soon, and has been looking at an ex council house, roughly 50 years old. Standard cavity wall, semi detached.

The heating at the moment is part electric off peak storage heating, and part wet radiators fed from a duel fuel burner stove in the living room.
Water heating is threw off peak immersion with daytime boost function.

There is no mains gas on the street.

It’s a 3 bedroom, just main bathroom with a bath and separate shower cubicle with 8 or 9 kW electric shower.

I’m hoping to reconfigure the downstairs to move the kitchen to the south facing side, and turn the existing kitchen into a utility room and downstairs WC


What are you plumbers recommendations for space and water heating that doesn’t rely on the stove being on?

I’ve already asked on the electricians forum for their suggestions.
 
Oil or lpg boiler ?
That’s both options for fuelling a boiler… but what else could be used to create the heat? Solar water heating? Air Source Heat Pump?
Looking for recommendations for running costs etc.
Cable and pipe routes aren’t a problem. Suspended timber floor on ground with ample crawling room underneath.
 
That’s both options for fuelling a boiler… but what else could be used to create the heat? Solar water heating? Air Source Heat Pump?
Looking for recommendations for running costs etc.
Cable and pipe routes aren’t a problem. Suspended timber floor on ground with ample crawling room underneath.

Solar we don’t get enough to heat a property, solar panels to offset the cost of electric cost best way

Ashp would be roughly double the cost to a lpg / oil boiler to install but sizing matters a lot and you need someone who knows there stuff as it could be 4-1 ratio eg 1 kw = 4kw heat but very easily could be 1-1

Heatloss and emitter (rad) sizing matters a lot
 

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