Cheaper Oil for Fuel?

home-heating-oil

oap wrote: »

This may not be the right place,but as we are all on oil heating and I have posted many times here before wondered what you thought about bio fuel

At our over fifties club yesterday there was a notice on the board saying heating oil was 40p a litre, this is reconditioned oil similar to what they use in diesel cars.

However, they say it is cleaner than kerosene and work perfectly well in domestic boilers, may ask our boiler chap what he thinks, but if anyone is interested in this or has tried it please can you let me know, many thanks

A saving of around fifteen pence a litre is not to be sniffed at, on the other hand a wrecked boiler would not do either:rotfl:

Not sure.. I know I looked into a while back but was waiting for an official oftec announcement.. Have to say though it took so long I forgot all about it. Check their website to see if they have approved it. I am sure they would have by now?

bobmedley

http://www.oftec.org/OFTECWelcomesRHI.asp

http://www.oftec.org/LiquidBiofuelForHomeHeating.asp

bandana999

This stuff (FAME) is biodiesel by another name, isn't it? ,,, so how can it be cheaper than kerosene? Maybe it will be subsidised, which will mean even greater demand for WVO, so even higher prices.
Because of the price and difficulty obtaining WVO, many biodiesel makers have stopped producing already.

boo1

Hi all, just moved into a house just outside Diss, Norfolk, that is oil heating. This is all new to me and I will need to fill up the tank soon as it is only a third full. Have been on boilerjuice and can get 500 litres for 59.12 per litre. Does this seem reasonable? Also can anyone recommend local suppliers? Thanks for any help you can give.

paceinternet

Go to www.yell.com
search "heating oil fuel distributors and suppliers" in Diss.

manda1205

boo1 wrote: »

Hi all, just moved into a house just outside Diss, Norfolk, that is oil heating. This is all new to me and I will need to fill up the tank soon as it is only a third full. Have been on boilerjuice and can get 500 litres for 59.12 per litre. Does this seem reasonable? Also can anyone recommend local suppliers? Thanks for any help you can give.

I live near Beccles, so not far from yourself. I usually get our oil from CPS, but I ring CPS, Goff and total first, (I used to ring lots of the smaller companies in the phone book, but they're ridiculously over priced) usually CPS will try to beat all others and so I ring them first, then get other quotes, ring them back and they will beat it. They're always good with delivery times too.

fyr

Avoid non competitive "boilerjuice.com".

Invest in some Saturday morning phone calls and ring round; many will ask what you've been quoted already, and you may accidentally drop price by a penny or two:o

Many people have free calls at weekend too, so no ££

Lotus-eater

You don't avoid boilerjuice, that's just daft advice. You use the price they give and try to get it beaten. I rang all my local companies and they couldn't beat it, so BJ got the business.

boo1

Thanks for all your replies, I'll do some ringing around and see what they quote. :beer:

manda1205

boo1 wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies, I'll do some ringing around and see what they quote. :beer:

I got 57.11p for 1000l, total £599.66, from Total today, but rang CPS back and they beat it by making the toal £599.55, I know its only 11p but as I usually use CPS I took it from them as they deliver quickly.
The price is actually down 2p from yesterday.