Heating oil big drop

Before you do, open the drain on back end and catch a little in a clear container, like a cut off water bottle. If you see water or sludge under the fuel you draw off, be careful as tilting the tank could raise the sediment/water/sludge lying below the out connection sufficiently to enter the fuel flow. Not good news for your burner, which could cut out, necessitating bleeding and clearing of the last stage trap and filter, or even the feed line back to the tank. That unusable last inch in the tank is there for a reason. Far better to just buy 20l in a drum once or twice from a forecourt who sells kero from a pump, or ready filled in 20/40 l drums. It's what I've done when delivery times were overly long.

ordered from east cork oil 500 litres €510

yes I know but I have a monthly standing order with them to put money on my account and have it there

It could also cause a tank to fail if any structural defects on the base if you fill it up with and leave it raised off the base at one end. A costly clean up for a few quid of possibly dirty oil.

At one stage in my Life, installing generators and fuel tanks was a part of my job, and it was standard practice to have the end of the tank where the outlet pipe was to be raised higher than the drain end. And if you believe that your method is the correct one, and so far, you have never had a problem with it, touch wood!! You have been lucky. Another thing that I usually do is never turn on the heating either while the tank is being filled, or for several hours afterwards to allow everything to settle. Believe me, cleaning out fuel lines and filters, and bleeding the air out, is not the kind of job that you want to be doing on a Sunday afternoon, or in the evening after work. You can trust me on that!!!

FLO30

Thanks, used to used that one. I recall the FLO one was a larger discount? Maybe I was dreaming….

You guys are getting false hopes up by posting in here, as am I now. Oops...

Too true. I think the trade are delighted it breached €1, they're never going to go below that, as they now have an established cartel floor price in people's heads. One point something euro. That was always a sneaky trick in retail, use some dodgy excuse to pass the significant digit of a price, like once you get past €10 say, the journey to 19 is a doddle. There was always controversy in the 70s when the chippers upped the price of a single. 'Because of new potatoes cost'. It never went down when the spuds went old and spotty, and were animal feed prices. And don't talk to me about the restaurant price for a €6 (from the warehouse) bottle of cheap house wine. It's already passed €30 in many establishments.

Normally 'odd' amounts like 800l don't get an automatic rate reduction/discount like 500l or 1000l online, either ring them up to haggle a price on the phone or get some spare containers to take the extra 200l and get 1000l for around the current price of 89cpl.

for info. I just double checked and WRK30 and FLO30 are still working for CERTA and offer the same amount of discount (15 off 500 litres and 30 off 1000 litres). Better than the pop up discount WARM15 on the site right now which is 15 per 1000 litres pro rata when applied.

Ye, bit cheaper over in Derrynoose at €0.699/l. Unfortunately a bit further from you than Strabane I guess!