I ordered a fill last night via BoilerJuice at 55p/l. We're still half full but hopefully we'll avoid the coming pricing blip/end of the world etc. That'll easily last to next summer assuming we don't go into deep freeze for the next 6 months...
Just ordered 500 litres at 56p/litre including VAT.
Not too bad and that will see us through until the warmer weather and cheaper oil prices, Trump/Putin notwithstanding.
Prices have not jumped as much as I thought they might so far this autumn/winter - although haven't petrol/diesel prices actually dropped a bit since August?
End of August the cheapest for us here was 62ppl inc VAT, Scottish Borders.
500 litres - £342. South Fife. Boilerjuice quote was £20 more expensive tail end of last week.
53.5ppl delivered yesterday, in N Yorks.
Anyone know if companies will buy oil back?? Could possibly see if the landlord would pay for it I guess, or someone else local?
Asking as we're moving to a house we've bought from rented at the end of December and will have a load of oil left in the tank at our rented place as we only filled it in the summer and won't have used that much by then.
Need to leave it with 2 bars (same as when we moved in and inventoried) but currently have 9 bars of a 1300l tank, so there's a good few pennies sat ther.
IMO that’s like buying a car, if you leave petrol in it the new buyer gets it for free
Or it's going to be very warm in the longdog household this month 😀
Yeh if it comes to it we'll be toasty warm for a while.
We're renting on a farm funkydunk, I know for sure if we leave it the farmer/landlord will be sucking it out anyway, not leaving it for the next tenant. We just have to make sure there's two bars left in the tank like when we moved in. Bit of a difference between £40 worth of petrol in a car and £400 worth of oil.
Borrow some jerrycans and take it to a pal's house?
As a landlord renting out an oil heated property, we have a charge/refund at local market rate clause in the tenancy agreement for start/finish oil level difference. It helps the regular shape tank is exactly 1mm/litre. In longdogs case discuss well before move out date, and if landlords thinks he's getting 100s litres free, jerry cans are go!
Just paid 49.2ppl here in the Cotswolds.
Cheers Steveb, we'll rise it as soon as we hand our notice in. Unfortunately our neighbour is still on solid fuel otherwise I'd try to do a deal with them. My nearest mate who's on oil is in Shetland, so not a lot of use lol!
Just remember oil stinks spills even small are obvious.
Be sure if you do sell it it's collected responsibly and carefully or you'll be on the hook for clean up.
Boiler juice is suggesting Covid got roughly to £1.55 ltr
Currently £1.25 ltr ish ? Whats the bets Trump will beat COVID ?
Feeling rather smug/relieved we did a top up two weeks ago at half that price. They jack the prices up at the first hint of trouble but give us lower prices very slowly even if they manage their business against forward contracts.
got 500 litres delivered about 10 days ago. £310. Todays price £734 on Boilerjuice. SW Fife area
i hadn’t realised that a disproportionate amount of the World's kerosene is produced in the Middle East, as opposed to refined more locally, which goes some way to explain the price spike I guess
I've just paid ~83 p per litre through Your NRG, they were a smidge (1-2 ppl) better than Boilerjuice for a similar delivery time.
I ordered it for 10 days delivery and it came in 2. I guess not too many people are buying at that price.
I've no idea on heating oil costs - I mean I can see on the news websites that pricing has shot up over the last few days and isn't capped in the same way as domestic gas or electricity, but how long does a litre of oil heat an average house for?
Literally doubled this week in central Scotland, BJ showing 123.1p/l for 1000 litre order 🤯
If the outside temp is 4-5c our big 4 bed detached 1950's farmhouse uses about 12-15L of oil a day.
The boiler is old and pretty inefficient, the thermostat is set to 18c in the evening and it also heats a 250L tank of water to about 55c.
Last week it was averaging about 10L as the outside temp was a bit higher and the PV was helping to heat the water (sometime in April the PV should be doing all the hot water and the boiler is switched off)
Those usage numbers are pretty accurate.
I've no idea on heating oil costs - I mean I can see on the news websites that pricing has shot up over the last few days and isn't capped in the same way as domestic gas or electricity, but how long does a litre of oil heat an average house for?
1000 litres does me the best part of a year in a modern combi/ crap insulated 3 bedroom house, although a wood burner does a lot of the heavy lifting.
I know someone who moved into a period property recently who has their temp set at 25+ degrees and 1000 litres lasted them 3 weeks.
Feeling rather smug/relieved
relieved for me more than smug, we ran out of heating oil last Wednesday, I meant to check the tank but failed, so quickly placed a delivery of 900l for the following day, it was a shade under £500 then, if it had happened this week I'd be looking instead at £999 :-/
This is just utter price gouging by the suppliers. There isn't a chance in hell that the orders they’re taking today will be at +120% at the point they're delivered in a week.
If they did this at the forecourt, they'd be lambasted, but as its domestic oil, it’s somehow not worthy of attention.
It’s another penalty for having the temerity to choose to live in the countryside. The bandits in this are DCC trading as Certas - they’ve bought out the locals and hike the prices and take the pee on delivery commitments. Our biggest consumer of oil is the AGA (inherited with the house not chosen) - more hungry than a teenager on a bulking up programme.
98.3p per litre for 500l delivery in Fort William 7 days ago ...
as its domestic oil, it’s somehow not worthy of attention
It's getting plenty of political and media attention over here in norn iron, plus in the south too, lots of home heating oil used here domestically.
98.3p per litre for 500l delivery in Fort William 7 days ago ...
That's a terrible price given there wasn't a war going on when you ordered 🤣
temp set at 25+ degrees and 1000 litres lasted them 3 weeks.
Clucking. Bell. On both those fronts 😬
98.3p per litre for 500l delivery in Fort William 7 days ago ...
Bloody hell! I think I was 62p/l last month
Admittedly not in Fort William though
ran a quote for shits n gigs from my usual supplier . 1.27/l
the Certas truck came up our street today so someone's timed it badly.
This is just utter price gouging by the suppliers.
The harsh reality for the business is that they will have a surge in demand for 'low' priced oil. Drivers will be tied up with high volume of deliveries. They will then sit almost idle for a few weeks and left with the unpalatable decision of do we buy in loads of oil at a very high price for the market price to potentially drop and we have to sell it all at a loss. It doesn't feel fair but they have to hedge their bets, it is a tricky market to be in at times.
Bloody hell! I think I was 62p/l last month
Like others said my woodburner does a lot of the work, buying in wood is pretty expensive though so cutting up fallen trees and driftwood has become a bit of a mass participation sport around here
With Certas, they give themselves two weeks to get the oil to domestic users (and have even failed on that score before), so that may actually be “cheap” oil on its way to a lucky punter.
Our biggest consumer of oil is the AGA (inherited with the house not chosen) - more hungry than a teenager on a bulking up programme.
Stick it on a plug-in timer so that power to the oil flow control unit is cut off overnight. It'll force it to low flow (4cc/hr) which has little impact on room temperature given the thermal mass of the thing. It'll come up to temperature quickly enough in the morning if you use it for a cooked breakfast.
For greater savings, fit one of these:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009483583098.html?
You'll need to drill a hole in the side to get the thermocouple to the oven, but once you've got the programming right you'll get very accurate temperature control.
Not sure about tinkering with the internals of an AGA but I might check out the idea of the low flow mode.
I paid 53.13p +v in early Jan.
Our local bulk buying cooperative was due to arrange a price / delivery on Monday. Perfect timing! We've still not heard what the price will be
I’d been trying to scrape through until spring but the little btard Watchman started flashing at me on Tuesday. £1.09 in Tayside. Took the minimum I could and told the missus to put an extra jumper on.
They will then sit almost idle for a few weeks and left with the unpalatable decision of do we buy in loads of oil at a very high price for the market price to potentially drop and we have to sell it all at a loss.
Our supplier doesn't stock any oil... They send the lorries to the refinery, fill up at the price on the day and deliver it.
They're cheap too.
I’d been trying to scrape through until spring but the little btard Watchman started flashing at me on Tuesday. £1.09 in Tayside. Took the minimum I could and told the missus to put an extra jumper on.
There’s always a bit more left in the tank. I one point I had one end propped up on wooden blocks to suck out the last dregs. I never found the Watchman things particularly accurate and just used to dip the tank every few weeks.
Normally bad at oil monitoring, so signed up to boiler juice connected service last year. First auto top up placed 23rd Feb at 65ppl. Not delivered yet but 🤞 Actually nearly cancelled it as I wanted to get below 20%!
There’s always a bit more left in the tank. I one point I had one end propped up on wooden blocks to suck out the last dregs. I never found the Watchman things particularly accurate and just used to dip the tank every few weeks.
My tank is 21 years old, so all I’d probably suck up is a load of sludge!
There’s also no guarantee that prices in a month or so won’t go even higher.
Heating will be off in a month and I’ve now enough to do the hot water over the summer.
The prime water zone .
Our supplier doesn't stock any oil
someone in this supply chain is stocking up and buying in stock though so the refinery is hedging their bets
I one point I had one end propped up on wooden blocks to suck out the last dregs. I never found the Watchman things particularly accurate and just used to dip the tank every few weeks.
I've do e the tank tipping thing!
I made my own ultrasonic oil level system but it died and was never that accurate.
My new system can tell me every days consumption very accurately.
Just had +600 litres delivered and fortunately they honoured the price from when I ordered on Monday morning of 86 cents per litre, I'd only ordered as I popped in to them to ask if they knew who owns the dog that had bitten the wife outside their yard (I owe that dog a bone!). The driver said they're now charging €1.65 per litre. A couple of petrol stations in town ran out of diesel yesterday as they were charging ten cents a litre less than anyone else.
The other big one here's the price of fertiliser which is skyrocketing too.
£1,337 for 1000 litres today, this time last week it was showing as £640
I'm assuming flight prices will jump too given kerosene and jet fuel are one in the same.
I'm assuming flight prices will jump too given kerosene and jet fuel are one in the same.
Probably not that much, jet fuel is hedged.
Just checked mine again and quite low😞 Now to play the game and see how long I can hold my nerve in the hope that the price falls a bit from the 137p / litre quoted for 500 litres. I’m hoping there’s been an element of panic buying that’s driven up the price.
Looked again today and Boilerjuice cant even give a price quote due to extremely high demand. 🙁
Just checked mine again and quite low😞 Now to play the game and see how long I can hold my nerve in the hope that the price falls a bit from the 137p / litre quoted for 500 litres. I’m hoping there’s been an element of panic buying that’s driven up the price.
There's definitely panic buying, but it's a bad time if you're low on stock. It's very much crystal ball time, but don't start pulling the rubbish and condensation through the boiler 🔮
The Strait of Hormuz can't get any more closed, so that can only get better.
While you're waiting for that, the Iranians will destroy more Gulf States infrastructure and make it worse.
If it's any help, consider the opposite
"Short term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is over, is a very small price to pay for U.S.A., and World, Safety and Peace," President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday night. "ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY!" https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-energy-chief-defends-waiver-russian-oil-sanctions-blames-fear-higher-gas-2026-03-08/
We've got this much left - heating periods shortened and temp turned down a bit.... Hopefully we'll be OK.
Looking forward to some warmer weather sometime and more sun to make the water hot rather than burning oil.
Have prices hit the high yesterday ?
Boilerjyice is showing a slight reduction on their price charts, and Trump has opened his mouth to say “the war is very complete , pretty much”, “ very far ahead of schedule “
So perhaps with all that clarity prices will now drop… until he opens his mouth tomorrow
£890 for 600l was the quote from boiler juice yesterday. I paid £303 just 5 weeks ago. :-/
As luck would have it, after the tank being so low we had to turn the heating/hot water off, we got 500ltrs for three hundred quid 3 weeks ago. The Heating Oil Club are now quoting twice that, and that’s NOT guaranteed! Final price will be given once their supplier (Certas in our case) confirms the order.
didnt he then follow on that non sensical tirade with "america hasnt won enough yet"
Also - getting the resolve to the conflicts only half the issue. - seen plenty footage from friends and colleagues in the region that highlights how much of a battering the infrastructures taken that we aint seeing on the news. Drilling rigs have been hit , Processing plants , Storage and offloading - its not going to be a 5 minute turn on the taps job.