Home Heating Oil

ollywood68

Any one had a recent quote for oil as I think it is that time again?

IvanOpinion

Maxol direct is quoting £318 for 900 litres today


Ivan

ruiner99

Would it also be possible for people to post any cheap new finds for 500 litres?

Thank you kindly.

littlereddevil

1200 litres only lasts me 3 months in the winter. What am I doing wrong?
Some people here use that in 9 months

IvanOpinion

littlereddevil wrote:

1200 litres only lasts me 3 months in the winter. What am I doing wrong?
Some people here use that in 9 months

I would normally go through a tankful between November and February and then another tankful does me rest of the year. If you think you are using too much then
- make sure your boiler has been serviced
- fit thermostatic controls onto your radiators (if they do not have them) and make sure your system has been balanced
- put some reflective foil behind all radiators on outside walls.
- make sure all pipes are lagged (particularly if your boiler is outside)

There is one other one I was told I can never remember which way round it works. You either turn the thermostat on your boiler up slightly and reduce the thermostats on your radiators OR you turn the thermostat on the boiler down slightly and increase the thermostats on your radiator. I think it is the former of these two - it is something to do with reducing the number of times your boiler starts and stops (apparently it wastes a lot of fuel when it tries to fire up)

Ivan

ollywood68

littlereddevil wrote:

1200 litres only lasts me 3 months in the winter. What am I doing wrong?
Some people here use that in 9 months

9 months - they're having a laugh. They must be wearing coats, hats and jumpers all the time or they dont even have the heating on. I would be lucky to get 3 months during winter and my house isn't that big. You live in the real world were people put their heating on

ollywood68

IvanOpinion wrote:

I would normally go through a tankful between November and February and then another tankful does me rest of the year. If you think you are using too much then
- make sure your boiler has been serviced
- fit thermostatic controls onto your radiators (if they do not have them) and make sure your system has been balanced
- put some reflective foil behind all radiators on outside walls.
- make sure all pipes are lagged (particularly if your boiler is outside)

There is one other one I was told I can never remember which way round it works. You either turn the thermostat on your boiler up slightly and reduce the thermostats on your radiators OR you turn the thermostat on the boiler down slightly and increase the thermostats on your radiator. I think it is the former of these two - it is something to do with reducing the number of times your boiler starts and stops (apparently it wastes a lot of fuel when it tries to fire up)

Ivan

I am not sure i would recommend putting thermosats on older systems. they have a tendency to get stuck nd that causes more problems

nadnad

ollywood68 wrote:

9 months - they're having a laugh. They must be wearing coats, hats and jumpers all the time or they dont even have the heating on. I would be lucky to get 3 months during winter and my house isn't that big. You live in the real world were people put their heating on

Well we only use about 1000-1400 litres a year - maximum, we certainly don't wear hats and coats in the house! Our thermostat is set to about 75 degrees in winter when the heat is set to come on for 2 hours in the morning and from 5pm to 9pm in the evening. We haven't started using the heating regularly yet but probably will from start of October as its starting to get cold. We don't use the heating at all from about June until September except for the odd day when its cold. We have got excellant insulation in our house - I think that helps, apparently most houses in the UK have only 1/4 amount of insulation that is used elsewhere in Europe - hence high heating bills!

ollywood68

nadnad wrote:

Well we only use about 1000-1400 litres a year - maximum, we certainly don't wear hats and coats in the house! Our thermostat is set to about 75 degrees in winter when the heat is set to come on for 2 hours in the morning and from 5pm to 9pm in the evening. We haven't started using the heating regularly yet but probably will from start of October as its starting to get cold. We don't use the heating at all from about June until September except for the odd day when its cold. We have got excellant insulation in our house - I think that helps, apparently most houses in the UK have only 1/4 amount of insulation that is used elsewhere in Europe - hence high heating bills!

I am still amazed at how little people us (they must wear coats and hats indoors . In Winter myheat is on for 2 hours in morning and from about 5pm to 10pm in evening. We dont use it in summer. I reckon I fill my tank 3 times. If I fill it now (end Sept). I would need to fill it again early Dec then again mid Feb. That works out at probably 3500 litres a year. There is no way I would use as little as 1400 litres. And to be clear, its not a big house and the temperature on the boiler is just below 70 degrees

nadnad

I don't know how we use so little - well our house is quite small about 1000 sq feet - it may make a difference to us that we are in the house very little at the weekends - when I know a lot of people put the heat on constantly we're usually out - (taking advantage of other people's heat !!) Maybe thats whats happening - we also had a plumber out once and he said our boiler thingy was very good and was only 2 years old.