Home Heating Oil

Golden_Anemone

oysterman wrote: »

A bit of forward planning would not go amiss.

A lot of people will have had to wait to be paid - as I did on 21st December - before they could order fuel.

RichardHowells

suki1964 wrote: »

If you order from Boilerjuice you definitely will get them as boilerjuice IS Nicholl and Deighan Oil

Hi,

Do you have evidence for that? Today this page (http://www.cheapestoil.co.uk/default.aspx) says "... acquisition of Boilerjuice by Emo Oil's parent company, the DCC Group...".

I thought that DCC were part of Shell. Any concrete information out there?

cfs

Hey all. I know this is a long shot but do any of you know of any company who will let me pay off my first order in installments? I really don't want to resort to emergency drums as it ends up costing more in the long run.

suki1964

RichardHowells wrote: »

Hi,

Do you have evidence for that? Today this page (http://www.cheapestoil.co.uk/default.aspx) says "... acquisition of Boilerjuice by Emo Oil's parent company, the DCC Group...".

I thought that DCC were part of Shell. Any concrete information out there?

Only what the driver told me Friday when he delivered. And I really dont know why he would lie seeing as we were only chatting

No matter who I order from be it Nichols ,Deighan or Boilerjuice - I get the same fella and same tanker

RichardHowells

I've no reason to think he'd lie either.

AIUI - Whilst BoilerJuice take orders from all over, much of the fulfillment is by subcontract to local suppliers. Hence BJ may easily look like X or Y in your area. Maybe that goes farther and both X and Y subcontract deliveries (in your area) to the only guy with a tanker.

RTNI

Hi everyone,

Just a quick question about home heating oil. Having moved into my first house with the fiancee, we have the boiler on for 45mins in the morning and 2.5 hours in the evening 6-8:30pm and we are using approximately 1 to 1.5 inches of oil on our oil level tube on the tank.

Can anyone tell me if this is ok? The tank size is cylindrical in shape, about 1.5m in diameter and approximately 2 meters long (a standard size or so). I looked up my boiler on the http://www.sedbuk.com/ site and it came out as a C rated (non-condensing one)

Had the boiler serviced by a family friend who runs his own business and he said that it had a good flame on it, but would love to know if this is normal consumption? Note that our boiler heats the hot water cylinder and radiators at the same time, no option for independent heating/hot water (yet! )

RichardHowells

RTNI wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if this is ok? The tank size is cylindrical in shape, about 1.5m in diameter and approximately 2 meters long (a standard size or so).

Well good old PI * Radius-Squared * length suggest that could hold 3500 litres. If correct that's a *big* tank. Most domestic installs top out about 2500.

RTNI wrote: »

...and we are using approximately 1 to 1.5 inches of oil on our oil level tube on the tank.

If the oil level is around the widest point of the tank that's about 80 litres per vertical inch. That's the worst case. It'll be less when the level is higher or lower.

So your estimated usage is 80 to 120/day. Clearly it depends on the size of your mansion, but I'd say that's a lot. Even in the current cold we use about 20/day. If you do the math based on the actual height in the tank you might find a very different figure.

RTNI

RichardHowells wrote: »

So your estimated usage is 80 to 120/day. Clearly it depends on the size of your mansion, but I'd say that's a lot.

Thanks, should have said that the 1-1.5 inches is per 2 weeks or so (forgot to add that critical info in original post! )

Ok, yeah the size of my tank is not as big as 3500l, I would have assumed as you said, around the lower mark. Thinking a bit more about it, the capacity would be about 1500l or so, which would equate roughly to 38l of oil per inch (at the widest point of the tank).

I think this is a more sensible figure of 60l over the last 2 weeks or so? It's a semi detached chalet bungalow.........

oysterman

Golden_Anemone wrote: »

Surely the point is Boilerjuice state that delivery will be made in 3-6 working days. This has not happened in this case but it was reasonable for the customer to expect it.

Boilerjuice might quote 3-6 days & the company i work for have had 100's of these orders over xmas & new year, but they do not deliver them, so it's down to the routers at our office to route properly & they are as much good as a chocolate teapot:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: To be fair to them they have had a pretty bad time, it's a good learning curve thou.

oysterman

RichardHowells wrote: »

Hi,

Do you have evidence for that? Today this page (http://www.cheapestoil.co.uk/default.aspx) says "... acquisition of Boilerjuice by Emo Oil's parent company, the DCC Group...".

I thought that DCC were part of Shell. Any concrete information out there?

DCC have bought numerous companies up over the last 3-4 years & are one of the biggest players in the market;)