Paraffin

If you were in Devon, I'd say Mole Valley Farmers. You can pick up a gallon for under £2. But you're not, so that's of no use to you. Do you know of any agricultural merchants near you?

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You may find your neighbourhood purveyor of red diesel also supplies paraffin. I don't know about cost, I haven't bought any in 20 years.

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I'm fairly sure that Focus DIY sell it... I was in their gardening section yesterday and remember noticing some of those olde worlde style greenhouse heaters like my parents had (I'm sure they must sell loads of those in June), with stacks of large white bottles next to it - I'm presuming they must have been paraffin?

David

Andy Dingley said the following on 16/06/2007 13:47:

Anywhere [1], it's just kerosene (28 sec burning oil). Buy kerosene or barbecue lighting fluid or, if you've got oil central heating, dip your tank (or your neighbours) for it and liberate it for 32p/litre.

If you live near an airfield, liberate Avtur or Jet-A1.

[1] DIY shed, hardware/ironmongers/builder's merchant, agricultural store, garden centre, etc.

Julian.

certainly

Our local garage (big chain) has prepacked 5 litre containers next to the bags of charcoal and smokeless fuel.

AWEM

Most of the sheds have it in gardening section for green house heaters. =

The sales people are probably too young to know what paraffin is so woul= d only know it by the particular brand name they sell or as "green house heater fuel".

In a shed through the nose at =A31+/l or there abouts.

Our local garage has red diesel on a pump at 56p/l at the end of April. = I just bought 2000l of 28sec heating oil at 31.75p/l (inc VAT at 5% as it = is for domestic heating) other use would attract VAT at 17.5% or 35.5p/l.

Blue diesel?

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Bought a plastic canister at our local Garden Centre today - they stock it for greenhouse heaters and also some weed killers can be mixed with it (bramble and shrub killers).

My local garage still has Pink on a forecourt pump :) Its about 0.90p a litre, I still use it for my Tilly lamps. If its Kerosene you are after go to an airport that has a fire dep with a can, ask nicely.

Sounds like a trip to Oswestry and a trip to the local aerodrome would pay you handsomely. You can use it in an oil burner. Kerosene for nothing and your heating for free.

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Hmm...wonder if they make one of those to fit a 16" pipe? ;-) David

Sorry - can't resist this Old Skool reference: you would get it at your local Esso Blee Dooler.

This will be understood by less than 10% of UKDIYers, and I sincerely apologise. However it is Monday morning.

john

p.s. I buy it easily at our Garden Centre. Can't remember why I bought it last time -- to fire up my Primus again, I think.

When I was a kid I had a stuffed toy of a Pink Paraffin Pongolator

(I imagine there's an eBay market for them these days)

I still have an Esso keyring with the little man with the funny shaped yellow head (sic)!

I no longer have a '60s crappy plastic keyring of an Esso "Tiger in your tank", because I did flog that on eBay. For a stupid amount of money. 8-)

delivering it in 5 gall drums on a Friday evening. We had a Hardware shop and sold both Esso Blue & Alladin Pink, some customers had a preference for one or the other - God knows why! Seem to remember it was about 2 bob a gallon - this would be in the late 50's or early

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!

Anyway, I buy paraffin for my little greenhouse heater from the local garage at about =A34.50 for 5 litres. It's in white plastic containers near the BBQ charcoal etc. Also in B&Q in the gardening/greenhouse section. Same extortionate price. Pete

Garages use to sell this. But seems to have been phased out.

But I thought the usual DIY outlets do it. Homebase being one.

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