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Home Heating question

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  • 09-05-2019 5:25pm
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    pummice
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭


    Can commercial gas cylinders be used to heat a home?


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    Tullogher
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Tullogher


    Yeah if they are LPG ones. Look up calor or flogas churns


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    DGOBS
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭DGOBS


    No difference except for the colour of the cylinder.

    Why would you be using commercial ones?


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    Tullogher
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Tullogher


    DGOBS wrote: »
    No difference except for the colour of the cylinder.

    Why would you be using commercial ones?

    No such thing as commercial / domestic ones. Theybare all made the same just different capacities. Most houses have 1 tonne tanks. Get telemetry put.on it and the gas company will know when you.need a refil


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    [Deleted User]
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    Tullogher wrote: »
    No such thing as commercial / domestic ones. Theybare all made the same just different capacities. Most houses have 1 tonne tanks. Get telemetry put.on it and the gas company will know when you.need a refil

    DGOBS would of stood inside the biggest tanks in the country luckily they let him out before they finished them.

    I think like myself Tony DGOBS is possibly interested in what the OP is trying to achieve and what is meant by “commercial” tanks.


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    Tullogher
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭Tullogher


    They mean ones bigger than the cylinders you see at some garages for the like of gas heaters like supersir


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    Dardania
    Registered Users Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Dardania


    gary71 wrote: »
    DGOBS would of stood inside the biggest tanks in the country luckily they let him out before they finished them.

    I think like myself Tony DGOBS is possibly interested in what the OP is trying to achieve and what is meant by “commercial” tanks.

    Cynics!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Tullogher wrote: »
    They mean ones bigger than the cylinders you see at some garages for the like of gas heaters like supersir

    Possibly but by understanding better what the OP is thinking makes it easier to give advice, most of the time the obvious answer is the correct one but there’s nothing wrong in double checking.


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    pummice
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭pummice


    I meant replacable cylinders bigger than super-ser sized ones. Thus avoiding standing charges like bord gais charge.


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    DGOBS
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    ok, firstly what your talking about is 47kg propane gas cylinders (these are still domestic cylinders)

    some pitfalls of what you seem to be suggesting:

    a) if your currently on natural gas, your gas appliances will be setup for natural gas, and will at best need to be modified (converted) to use propane (some appliances may not be compatible to convert at all) and this will have to be carried out by an RGI

    b) even taking into account the gas meter standing charge for natural gas, you will find using propane cylinders much more expensive to run you household heating

    c) if you are still intent on moving to propane cylinders, for you home heating you may need up to 4 cylinders on an auto change over device (2 cylinders per bak) using 47kg cylinders, and again this setup will have to be installed by an RGI


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    Kalyke
    Registered Users Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Kalyke


    I am using Calor at the moment but want rid of them They are charging me 2.9726 per m³ (Is this a"normal" unit in gas usage?) plus a standing charge of €10 per month. Any advice on alternatives would be appreciated. I am willing to spend a few bob to upgrade. Or is this not excessive? I am fed off a communal tank in a small estate and Calor own all the gas infrastructure up to and including the meter.


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    John.G
    Registered Users Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭John.G


    You are paying the equivalent of ~ 11.9 cents/kwh assuming 25 kwh/M3. Nat gas or kerosene are ~ 8 cents/kwh so apart from the standing charge, LPG is ~ 48% more expensive.


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