Value of oil in tank was c£750 now c£2250

aoleks

The same as every other tenancy, regardless of fuel type: you pay for what you use, however prices fluctuate.

if you rent a car with a full tank when petrol is £1, but it then subsequently goes to £2, do you only fill it half when you give it back?

having said that, shop around, oil hasn’t tripled in price!

sidneyvic

Thats life at the moment..... Doubt the landlord will be too happy you trying to wriggle out of paying the going rate...

Nothavingthat

Rodders53 said:

Woolsery said:

Where are you? According to charts for England, heating oil is just over twice the price it was in Feb '20.That's about 45 ppl as against 97ppl  on 2nd September. I bought oil a few weeks ago at 84.5ppl.

On 10th March 2020 I ordered 1000 litres of Kerosene @ 33.33p/l + 5% vat.  Bedfordshire.  That would be a tad under the £750 figure inc vat for a 2500 litre tank.  But bear in mind one never runs a tank to zero - likely 250-500 litres left even if run down low?

OP really should have been refilling the tank regularly as they used the Kerosene, to avoid a large lump sum to pay and avail themselves of the cheaper prices at the time.  Or have they refilled during the tenancy?

Landlord will have to pay today's prices to refill the tank for the next tenant - so that's the money the Landlord will 'lose'.  Not what he paid to fill it originally!

The minimum 500 litre deliveries make 'topping up' a nearly full tank a problem and a negotiation to agree 'how much' would be needed between Tenant and Landlord... unless covered in any Contract.

Woolsery said:

According to charts for England, heating oil is just over twice the price it was in Feb '20.That's about 45 ppl as against 97ppl  on 2nd September. I bought oil a few weeks ago at 84.5ppl.  

Cheapest we have paid since Feb 2020 is 29p ex vat, highest around 98p, just paid 92p

We have used over 7000 litres so have refilled on a regular basis.

Woolsery

Still no info about what the contract says, but I think we all know by now what the answer is.

Exodi

Nothavingthat said:

Rodders53 said:

Woolsery said:

Where are you? According to charts for England, heating oil is just over twice the price it was in Feb '20.That's about 45 ppl as against 97ppl  on 2nd September. I bought oil a few weeks ago at 84.5ppl.

On 10th March 2020 I ordered 1000 litres of Kerosene @ 33.33p/l + 5% vat.  Bedfordshire.  That would be a tad under the £750 figure inc vat for a 2500 litre tank.  But bear in mind one never runs a tank to zero - likely 250-500 litres left even if run down low?

OP really should have been refilling the tank regularly as they used the Kerosene, to avoid a large lump sum to pay and avail themselves of the cheaper prices at the time.  Or have they refilled during the tenancy?

Landlord will have to pay today's prices to refill the tank for the next tenant - so that's the money the Landlord will 'lose'.  Not what he paid to fill it originally!

The minimum 500 litre deliveries make 'topping up' a nearly full tank a problem and a negotiation to agree 'how much' would be needed between Tenant and Landlord... unless covered in any Contract.

Woolsery said:

According to charts for England, heating oil is just over twice the price it was in Feb '20.That's about 45 ppl as against 97ppl  on 2nd September. I bought oil a few weeks ago at 84.5ppl.  

Cheapest we have paid since Feb 2020 is 29p ex vat, highest around 98p, just paid 92p

We have used over 7000 litres so have refilled on a regular basis.

If this is the case I find your logic even harder to follow, you've used up the fuel that cost the landlord £750 and filled the tank up multiple times since.

If fuel prices went down, would you have given him more than the cost to fill the tank? Or does it only work one way?

I think this landlord will quickly learn the consequences of being nice and will resort to leaving an empty tank for his future tenants...

warwick2001

I suspect, much like a rental van, you give it back in the same condition as you received it. So, if you moved in and it was full, when you move out it should be full. So, you pay the going rate to fill it. Or, you return it empty, the Landlord fills it up, and charges you whatever he/she/they like. 

But, like everyone else has said, read your contract, should be detailed in there.