What is the best way of heating the home in the winter ?? - Page 2

I went the whole hog and had a combi boiler put in with rads. Lovely and relatively cheap to run. Also, a gas fire (like the sort we have in the uk) is excellent. Flueless or with a flue.

Hi , can I ask roughly what did it cost to fit central heating please,?

Jintymcginty51

No not living in Spain yet.. looking for somewhere to rent longterm Villamartin area  in  2018..husbands retired now..

Yes.

Spanish houses, specially in that area are built for Summer.

Alicante is very humid and the cold gets in your bones, as we say here.

I recomend natural gas, and the Spanish goverment together with the city halls are subsidizing Natural Gas pipelines so all your complexes have the posibility to install the natural gas in your houses, and the central heating so winters are softer and nicer:)

Villamartin, Algorfa, Orihuela Costa, and so on already have natural gas. Natural gas kw is 6 cents, while Electricity is 14-19 cents /Kw. Inverters are extraexpemsive and only heat the top of the room..;(. Natural gas heating is confortable for those months and you think you are in Englang, and will not spend a cold winter in Sunny Alicante in the morning, and cold and humid Alicante at night..

If you like a quote on central heating for a whole house I could advise.

Regards,

Carolina

An alternative could be gas fires - not the portable types - either flueless or with flue. They work with both natural and propane. We supply many different models and it could be the economical option for you.

By all means pm me for more details.

Graham

Hi

do you have a log stove, if so how much can I expect to pay for installation and is the wood in Spain reasonable to buy.

Yes, we have a big built-in log fire, it's our main source of heating, and it's rated at over 20 kilowatts.

A good one isn't cheap - to get an idea of prices have a look at the Leroy Merlin and BricoDepot websites.

Last autumn we spend €290 on logs. I always go for encina - holm oak - which is 16 cents a kilo. You can buy other types of wood down to 9 cents a kilo, but you'd burn more of the cheaper stuff than you would encina.

When we bought the logs, I expected that we'd only actually use three-quarters of them, as we have done in previous years. However, Margaret's got cancer (from which she's slowly recovering) and has lost a lot of weight. Probably because of that she feels cold all the time, so the fire is kept stoked up more than in previous years. I'm hoping that next winter we'll only be burning about €200 of logs.

As an aside, it's a lot more interesting to watch a log fire than to watch a Dimplex radiator!

Thanks for the reply and I am gad to here your wife is making a recovery, my wife also is now four years clear of cancer.

I am going to start the search for a fire this year.

once again thanks.

Kevin

I can give you a quote if you like:) I need the meters of your house..and the number if rooms you like to install radiators..

regards

I will be back in Spain on the 8th of March I will have a measure up.

Thanks