Where can you buy paraffin these days? A local garage had a paraffin pump but that must have been 20 years ago. I haven't seen it since then.
Kevin
Where can you buy paraffin these days? A local garage had a paraffin pump but that must have been 20 years ago. I haven't seen it since then.
Kevin
Hardware stores. Garden centres sell it, but very expensively, in 1 gallon containers. Best getting your own can, and getting a local hardware store to fill it. Still somewhere in the region of £4-5/gallon though, I think.
5litre plastic containers in B&Q, more expensive than 4star though. getting your Tilley lamp ready?
I saw it in B&Q last week (garden centre part) but it was over £5 a gallon!
Diesel is cheaper, even DERV with road tax on it!
there's a garage in Mansfield that sell it from the pump, about 85p a litre last time i got some, but i didnt need parafin really, was to clean out my diesel heater,
kerosene is about 60p a litre, smells more but not a problem for my application as the heater is mounted under the motorhome, so only tent campers can smell it :)
i am only running it on kerosene over winter, runs a bit cooler on it than diesel, but cleans the carbon out brilliantly, heater is on the frost setting, so being used a lot atm, when i start using the motorhome again i'll go back to red diesel.
Sure it was 5l? I saw some 4l containers.
Some garages sell it too, typically in 4 litre containers.
Most allotments have a shop for their members, so try and get pally with a n allotment holder and ask if they could get you some.
Quite possibly, it was a couple of years ago that I last bought some.
Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?
MM
For transport use, probably - but for heating, no.
nope, it's for anything that dosent get used on the road, hence a heater or generator are allowed to use it, thank bod too, as with the prices creaping up again for white diesel, i would prolly have to go back to gas for heating.
Only a small amount of duty on it (10p/l?) so you can't use it for motive power on the public highway (with some exceptions, like tractors etc). You can use it in boilers and gen sets etc.
...except boats. Clearly they don't get used on the road, hence shouldn't be paying road levels of tax, but someone has recently decided that "all those rich gits with yachts" should have to pay road tax for it nonetheless.
(Actually it doesn't make a vast difference to me, as a 15HP engine used at fairly low revs for a few hours per trip doesn't drink that much diesel, but the principle still annoys.)
Pete
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