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Thanks for all your advice. I have bitten the bullet and gone for total multi fuel CH using a Aarrow Stratford Boiler stove to heat water and rads. I am slo getting the Dunsley Electric Booster unit costed up as a possibility (but would be ever used during off peak). On a different nore has anyone h...

I have now spoken to the stove people and they reckon that if I use the Aarrow Stockton CH boiler stove and load it up before bed and again in the morning (albeit I would probably have to use a slow burning fuel like anthracite it should be fine). Interestingly on Dunsley's website there is a couple...

Thanks for this. But the problem is I am out all day and often don't get back til after 6 so if you then put the stove on it'll be several hours before the heat percolates its way into the radiators and starts to heat the house up. If i worked from home then I could just have the stove on all the ti...

Hi. I am imminently about to move to a wee cottage which has no heating except a coal fire and has no mains gas. I am going to put in a wood stove to heat the living room and the water and probably have the stove a wee bit on the large size for the room so that I can open up the doors and let the he...

Nope not really. A possible but its in Ormiston and next to door to huskies. Ad going up in local shop tmorrow and failing that the local paper in a couple of weeks. They may have blown away by then anyway....

Hi. Thanks for the welcome! I used to live and work in Shetland but have been on the Mainland now for 6 years. I miss it alot though. Its a great place. PS

Hello. I am the vegie sheep keeper :oops: mentioned above. Basically the sheep are being kept as a hobby (I like working with sheep). They are a endangered Scottish breed and need a helping hand. If I can sell them as breeding stock (they are all pedigree) then that would be great, but although I am...