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Can you run an oil boiler on red diesel? It's about to be replaced anyway so don't care if it breaks but red diesel is cheaper than small quantities of kerosene.
Thanks.
How much is the red diesel ?
The kerosene is about 60p a litre and if you go to the depot they'll fill your containers .
You can run a boiler on red if you change the jet as red is. I think 28 and heating oil is 32 its todo with how long it burns for. Also you cant use red if your flu does not go stright as its a lot more smokey and if there is a bend it can block. Hope this helps
Where joe egg
Wouldnt fill me up last year when their trucks couldnt get to my house
Sent their truck out to end of my drive and filled a large oil drum in the back of my land rover and shuttled it down the drive !
What are you replacing your oil boiler with ?
There's a wood pellet boiler waiting to go in - it was supposed to be in before Christmas but got delayed so we just need a bit of oil to keep us going.
Locally I can get kerosene from a pump at £1/litre or £5/gallon tomorrow. Red diesel is 83p/litre.
Places where you can get a small amount of kerosene are a bit limited here.
you will need a new nozzle for the burner and an increase in pump pressure too.
not all burners will run 35 sec oil though, and as mentioned above if you have a low level flue then it is a definite no.
out of interest which pellet burner are you using?
We've gone for a windhager. No expense spared but hopefully may last the 20yrs they do the calculations over to make it make sense.
nice, just done one for a customer myself. been very impressed by them as a company. who are you dealing with there?
It's a company called The Centre for Green Energy in Hexham. Seem like good folk but rather *relaxed*. I think the plumber has been the hold up - guess he's busy.
Ah, thought you might have dealt direct with Windhager themselves.
What size are you using?
It's a Biowin Klassik 26W. Like a base model Audi 🙂
not too bad, ours was a 35kW unit, my god was it heavy!
Yeah, someone needs to invent some means of getting them off the pallet and still being able to move them about.
Anyway, think I'll just turn the heating down and hope the oil lasts.
Guessing you have tried propping the tank up at one end? might be a bit of sludge though.
When its finally run-out you have little to lose apart from the fuel cost by trying some 35 Sec oil.
It may run, may be a bit Smokey but as its only a stop gap and your ditching the boiler give it a go.
I know a place that runs a mixture of 28 and 35 sc oil around 50/50 mix. He has not had any probs.
Might get you through until new one is on line.