Over-heating Oil

[gradus]

We need an emergency oil delivery having run out unexpectedly.
Price quoted £600 for a 100 litres.
They're 'avin a laugh!

[Bryn]

We need an emergency oil delivery having run out unexpectedly.
Price quoted £600 for a 100 litres.
They're 'aving a laugh!

https://www.boilerjuice.com/heating-oil-prices/

https://homefuelsdirect.co.uk/home/heating-oil-prices/berkshire

[french frank]

I'm hoping to be able to turn my gas central heating off next week.

[teamsaint]

Boilerjuice aren't even quoting a price in our area.Never seen that before.

What a mess.

[gradus]

Local distributor, Goff Petroleum has quoted £1.25 per litre for delivery before 30 March - almost seems a bargain although 60% higher than we paid in November last.

[Sir Velo]

Local distributor, Goff Petroleum has quoted £1.25 per litre for delivery before 30 March - almost seems a bargain although 60% higher than we paid in November last.

Just paid a £1/litre today. I always hate buying more fuel when there is still over 200litres left in the tank. One could play the market and hope the situation resolves itself by the summer but always the risk it could go further the opposite way.

[ahinton]

Just paid a £1/litre today. I always hate buying more fuel when there is still over 200litres left in the tank. One could play the market and hope the situation resolves itself by the summer but always the risk it could go further the opposite way.

I am likewise in the unfortunate position of having to use kerosene for heating and hot water. My usual supplier is now quoting £1.20 per litre + VAT but expects that to rise to more than double that when the impact of the Russian issue takes hold; it also declines to guarantee availability and is already rationing deliveries to 750l maximum. It will not suprise me if some - possibly many - kerosene suppliers simply go out of business within the next few months...

[LHC]

I was going to post this on the 'jokes' thread, but it might be more apposite here.

[mike9199]

I was going to post this on the 'jokes' thread, but it might be more apposite here.

It is not funny anymore. Actually it gets more and more serious.

[Dave2002]

It is not funny anymore. Actually it gets more and more serious.

It is serious - but it is still quite funny!

Our heating is almost completely off now - we're only having it on for an hour or so a day now for hot water.

[ardcarp]

I was browsing some sort of Aga/Rayburn cooker site. We have a wonderful gas powered Rayburn cooker that (a) you can cook on...wonderful oven (b) heats the water (c) does the central heating and (d) keeps our kitchen/day-room warm all the time. Gas prices, like oil, are now horrendous.
Unlike the Aga brand, Rayburns are made in several formats, one being solid fuel, which obviously needs stoking and ash-removal which is a bit of a faff. However they will happily burn wood...preferably dry wood... which is a clean-to-handle fuel and which is presently readily available because of Ash die-back. If shut down overnight it will remain alight, so no bother re-lighteing every morning. It has been calculated that running a Rayburn on dry logs from a good supplier costs less than half the price of gas or oil.

Two disadvantages. 1. You have to buy a completely new Rayburn. They are not cheap. But 2nd-hand, maybe?
2. In some urban areas, burning solid fuel is, I gather, banned. I assume this applies to wood, even though it's a renewable
resource.

[french frank]

Two disadvantages. 1. You have to buy a completely new Rayburn. They are not cheap. But 2nd-hand, maybe?
2. In some urban areas, burning solid fuel is, I gather, banned. I assume this applies to wood, even though it's a renewable
resource.

Some 'appliances' are rated 'Defra Exempt' and you can burn wood even in Smoke Control Zones. But the latest thinking is that no one should burn wood because of the pollution, even (apparently) if you've invested in the latest EcoDesign appliances and use the necessary kiln-dried Ready-to-Burn logs from sustainably-managed forests. It could be that there's a 'pendulum' and whereas there was encouragement to invest in carbon-neutral, renewably-fuelled appliances, you are now as evil as an 18-th c slave-trader if you burn wood. I suspect there is a compromise position.

[ardcarp]

you are now as evil as an 18-th c slave-trader if you burn wood

Oh dear. We have a log burner too.

[french frank]

Oh dear. We have a log burner too.

As I say, I think the pendulum will swing back a bit. My ultra efficient A++ woodburner burns much less wood. In fact I was getting by with two logs in an evening and combusting at a good temperature. Criticisms of the calculations of polluting emissions were that they were based on an overstimate (some say double) of the amount of wood burnt and testing on older woodburners rather than the new efficient ones. My (gas) heating was turned off when the clocks changed (hasn't half been cold some evenings ).

[AuntDaisy]

As I say, I think the pendulum will swing back a bit. My ultra efficient A++ woodburner burns much less wood. In fact I was getting by with two logs in an evening and combusting at a good temperature. Criticisms of the calculations of polluting emissions were that they were based on an overstimate (some say double) of the amount of wood burnt and testing on older woodburners rather than the new efficient ones. My (gas) heating was turned off when the clocks changed (hasn't half been cold some evenings ).

Two logs is impressive & I think your wood burner is much better than ours.

Talking of pollution & efficiency, what's the calorific value of that well know wooden actor Michael Gove?