Heating Oil

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wizoz

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I've just paid £333 for 500 litres
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That's £70 more than 3 months ago!!!! It's shocking, the wages don't go up but the cost of living is rising at an alarming speed
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We have two large tanks here. I was only saying earlier that it was £568 last time we filled both tanks, but it was £901 this time.

I can't recall how many litres both tanks hold though.....in-laws have the tickets.
 
We got to the point where we simply couldnt afford to get anymore. I bought 2 oil filled rads and used them along with a log fire. Cost us far less and the 'essential' rooms were nice and warm.

Its getting to the point where we wont be able to afford it for even the worst months at this rate.
 
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I need oil, my only cooking is an oil aga.

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I've still got my oil aga but due to the cost of running it, only use it as a "special treat" at christmas. I've had to buy a little electric cooker for everyday use.

I had 900 litres of oil delivered the beginning of January which cost £405.00....just had another delivery for the same quantity and it cost £546.00!!!
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I've been collecting loads of wood to burn in my stove for when it gets cold again. I am having a lot of building work done at the moment and I am collecting every spare bit of wood that the builders leave around and adding it to my wood store. The price of heating oil is scandalous.
 
We live in an old house which costs us a fortune to heat with oil. All our water is heated via oil too and so we have to use it year round.
We did look at converting to gas using canisters but there's no guarantee gas will be any cheaper in 12 month's time.
 
Surely you have an emmersion switch? This is what we are doing, it heats within 10 mins enough for a bath for the boys or a shower for us - is working out much cheaper.
 
I was shocked yesterday to get a bill for over a thousand pounds, we have two tanks, one for the house, one for the swimming pool.
I was even more shocked to get another for half that amount in today's mail, and saw my husband had ordered red diesel for his tractor tank...
Anyone want a cheap horse?
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We have hardly used the heating since the cost went up, but relied on the woodburner and the Aga.
I am hoping the new solar panels will cut down the cost, but we are also now looking at heat pumps...
I'd turn the pool off but it's part of the contract for the tenants, but it just says heated pool, doesn't say how hot thank goodness!
 
Everyone moans about the cost of petrol and diesel but heating oil is the real shocker. We have a 2500 litre tank that has a sensor built into it so it just phones up the oil company itself when it's getting low and they come and fill it up
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When we moved in 5 years ago the cost of heating oil was approx 15 per litre. I checked the other day coz I never really see a bill...just pay a fixed monthly amount to the company...and was shocked to see the price was now 55p per litre...a 375% increase
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Each tank now costs about £1300 to fill
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Fortunately, just after we moved in we changed the central heating system to a conventional oil boiler rather than the old fashioned blown air furnace system that was there and used about 3 tanks of oil per year ! We're down to about 1.5 tanks a year now...but i'll be looking to knock another degree off the thermostat this winter
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Our water is also heated by oil though so we do have to run it all year round. Might experiment with the immersion heater a bit again now though...used to be terrified of using it because electricity was so expensive...how times change
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I forgot to mention that we only have one source of heating. Our boiler is a combi boiler so we have no water tank, we just turn on the hot tap and have instant hot water. We are bu55ered if we have a power cut, all we have to keep us warm are a few candles!
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same here - combi boiler - just had tank filled and 1400 litres was 974 quid - and that supplies my electricity as well as no mains here
 
its frightening, the cost of heating oil. we've just had 2 woodburning stoves fitted in the house. but wood is deartoo as are the stoves and having the chimneys lined. still ,i like my real fires.
oilis now over £135 a barrel. its very expensive to travel anywhere now. gas and elec will be going up mnext i expect. and everything has to be transported so theres a huge knock on effect.
horse feed is very dear now as well.
 
I am sooooo glad we didnt upgrade our boiler to a combi, we have turned the hot water over to the immersion (got a cheap timer from B&Q) and use the shower more. Heating only comes of in cold weather in the mornings. In the evenings I use the wood burner or a jumper. Even took to wrapping up on the sofa in a blanket!

We are moving soon to a much larger house (eek). It has a bore hole and we are looking into the possibilities of a ground source heat pump using the bore hole rather than digging up that garden, apparently its polular in sweden etc. Will let you know how it goes
 
Sh1t !!!

I've just checked the price of heating oil again today and it's now 65p / litre...10p up on a few weeks ago
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Outrageous !!!!!
 
We are on bore hole water. We run an ancient but efficient solid ful/multifuel rayburn that does the CH upstairs and cooking and hot water downstairs. We've got wood burners in sitting and office. We go out after gales and storms and gather free fall wood cut it to cord lengths and store for winter use. At a push the old rayburn will tick over on one scoop of coke all day but we burn wood in daylight hours and only use coke at night.it costs about £70 for coke every three weeks to run midwinter.
A friend told me their oil fired version was costing them £10 a day and that only ran one rad!
 
I have just put the phone down from ordering 900 litres I ring the two companies who have always given me the best quotes

15/01/08

Quote 1 42.50

Quote 2 42.45 (Told them I had been quoted £42.40 and they done it for 42.20
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22/05/08

Quote 1 58.60

Quote 2 59.25 (told them £58.50 and they have done it for £58.50
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differrence in cost for 900 litres in 4 months = £146.70
 
We use GOFF.

There is a riding school near us where the previous owner had a water tank under the muck heap and the central heating was heated by that. The only down side is that the muck heap was fairly close to the house (about 100 foot or so away) but you didn't really notice it and apparenty the water temp is pretty good.
 
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I've just checked with a local firm. its 60.4p a litre

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Is that net of VAT though ? I'm being quoted 61.97+vat.

I'm tied to my supplier too as it was part of the contract for having the sensor fitted
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Surely you have an emmersion switch? This is what we are doing, it heats within 10 mins enough for a bath for the boys or a shower for us - is working out much cheaper.

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That's what we do Weezy. It's far cheaper to have the immersion on for hot water than the heating boiler.

We only filled ours up because it's gone a bit cold and we've been having heating on for an hour or so in the mornings. These huge old houses quickly feel cold when the temperatures plummet.
 
Don't get me started on heating oil...have sold house and due to complete soon...so couldn't bring myself to have the minimum 500 litres delivered tp keep system ticking over...so went to the depot and COLLECTED 100 litres...was charged 78..yup that's SEVENTY EIGHT pence a litre...why the 20p premium???? ADMIN COSTS! ADMIN my A***! How can it be more expensive for them for ME to collect it???? SEETHING!
 
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