Domestic Oil Suppliers?? Aberdeenshire

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McWigglebum4th said:

Keep the fuel clean and it helps solve many many other issues

Also if you get some water in the bottom of the tank then it can turn bug tastic with snot blocking everything up

Some good advice, cheers for the tips.

Just need to wait until spring to create a new base for a tank and get that sorted and plumbed in along with shifting the boiler.

[westtra]

http://www.northernoils.co.uk/

[shtu]

McWigglebum4th said:

Top tip

Most tanks have 50 litrs or so of un pumpable oil. If you are deeply in the poop lift the tank up at the end without the tap and stick a brick under it. This will give you a day or two of running AND a crap load of garbage into the filter.

It's really not a top tip, unless you fix oil boilers for a living.

What lurks at the very bottom of most oil tanks is not oil, but water. Condensation forms on the tank's inside walls at night, and gathers at the base of the tank. That then gets filled with all kinds of mould and general gunk. That condensation is one reason you should try and place the tank in a shady spot, it minimises the condensation.

Disturbing the tank when near-empty and letting this into the fuel line is a very bad idea, odds are you'll clog the filters and fill the system with watery sludge, and probably need a service call to get it flushed out and the boiler restarted.

What you can do is dip the tank using stuff called "Kolor Kut" on the end of a stick. It changes colour in the presence of water, and lets you check if you need to siphon the rubbish out of your tank. It's easy to see when you start drawing out oil - it floats on top.

I did this for one of our neighbours (after they had a boiler ruined, and problems with the replacement after each tank top up) and drew over 50 litres of water out.

This is also why you should always shut the system down for a few hours during and after an oil delivery, to allow and water\gunk to settle back to the base of the tank and avoid drawing it into the fuel line.

[gogsboy]

Brogans, must have money to burn, they were always usually the dearest over the years.

The cheapest supplier is almost always john smiths

[gogsboy]

As for boiler juice, is that not the guy from johnsons that has it

[scz4]

One good thing about Brogan is you can setup a direct debit so it doesn't seem quite so painful come refill time. Do other local companies offer that?

[Andrew[MG]]

Brogan Fuels is owned by Certas Energy, the biggest supplier in the UK. Once they bought companies like Brogans they ramped up the price and are rumoured to have made back the cost of buying the business within 18 months of price rises.

AFAIK, Brogan and all the other distributors that they own will be re-branded in the next 12 months.

Boilerjuice was sold off to some guy who isn't in the oil business. When supplies were low and prices were high a few years back, the owners of BJ were caught looking like they were extorting customers so they decided to get out of that business.