central heating fuel

Although nearly everybody uses gas as their central heating fuel, many are totally unaware that oil can be used as an alternative. Oil is mainly used as an alternative to gas in areas where homes cannot access the gas lines. And this is not as rare an occurrence as the typical townie or city dweller would think.

Many people choose to make their homes in remote locations in the countryside. These homes are few and far between and obviously still need to be able to have some form of central heating to keep their homes warm in the winter time. It is also thought that isolated homes in the countryside can be colder in the winter than those which are more closely built together in the city centres. Oil, therefore, becomes the fuel of choice for countryside dwellers when it comes to heating up the home.

Although the two systems work in exactly the same way, i.e. heating up the water to warm the radiators, it is just the method used to heat the water that differs one uses a oil fired boiler while the other a gas boiler. The only real difference between the two, and one that is probably deemed as a disadvantage, is the fact that oil has to actually be delivered to the house. Nevertheless, those people that do have oil based central heating systems get used to this and eventually don't see it as a problem at all. Those who have never had an oil central heating system before would find the need to have an oil tank in their garden rather strange and having to phone up your oil provider to order more oil would also be something that you would not be used to.

Nonetheless, people living in the countryside are thankful for oil based systems as these are often the only alternatives to gas fired central heating systems.

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