Home Heating Oil

fredy34

hope this hasnt been raised before!
Does anyone get their oil delevered 'through the house' ? I live in the middle of a terrace street and its become very difficult to find companies that will deliver in this way. Anyone found any?

mark

thetope

i live in the middle of a terrace that has about 20 houses (so the hose has to go along the back of at least 10 houses ~approx 50m), i have had oil delivered by maxol direct and cheaperoil.com (nicholls) with no problems. about 4 years ago i temped for nicholl for a couple of weeks and they had just started to refuse to deliver oil through the house because every man and their dog was making claims (false claims, 90% of the time) for a new carpet because the oil man had put oil on the carpet. i doubt you will find any companies nowadays that will do it, and they will cite insurance reasons as the cause. but most companys have mini tankers with extra long hoses to deal with terraces, just tell them that when you order.

fredy34

nope hose definately doesnt fit and they cant get a smaller tanker anywhere near the alley

Grvymix

CheaperOil.com just quoted me 326.00£ for 900L good thing I didn't order the other day! Sad when 326.00£'s looks good to me....

Grvymix

fredy34 wrote:

nope hose definately doesnt fit and they cant get a smaller tanker anywhere near the alley

Sorry about that, what are your options?

fredy34

so far for through house deliveries ive got Hayes fuels who are £193 for 500l which isnt exactly cheap. cant find anyone else!

Raven

Managed to get £320 for a 900 fill today at Conners (pricematched Stephen Morris also £320) Pretty scary prices but its only twice a year for us, if this winter is as bad as predicted then its best to have it sorted sooner rather than later.


Raven

Fred.Ed

I rang around today - 10 companies - and the following quotes were the best by far:

Bangor Fuels: £171 for 500L, £298 for 900L (02891477795)

Maxol direct : same for 500L; £300 for 900L (02890848586)- had to beat them down they started at £199 and £339!

Anybody got anything better? - I live in the Ards area

Ta.

thetope

thats heading back in the right direction, i got an email today from oilpricecheck to say that they had dropped but i have about 6 inches left in the tank so i might hold out a little longer to see if they drop any more!

MMCG_2

Just priced 900 litres in Oildirect. They are charging £305. NOt tooooo bad.