u/DanielLorey

Hi there,

My elderly mother in law lives in a detached home (built circa 1950s) with a coal fire.

The fire doesn’t seem large enough to me to the point where my wife and I have both commented that she’s burning more coal than seems necessary. The house also rarely feels warm.

There are rads that supposedly work from the heat generated by the fire but I’m not entirely sure how it works.

She looked at getting a boiler years ago but as she lives a few hundred meters from the nearest supply she was quoted thousands.

Anyway… what help is available for her? If any? I understand she’s not eligible for a BUS grant as she has no gas but am I better off looking at a wood burner or is a heat pump still viable?