Buying Paraffin

[Zen83237]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

I saw it in B&Q last week (garden centre part) but it was over £5 a gallon!

 

[Andy Dingley]

Where can you buy paraffin these days?

Diesel is cheaper, even DERV with road tax on it!

 

[gazz]

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.

 

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5litre plastic containers in B&Q, more expensive than 4star though.
getting your Tilley lamp ready?

Sure it was 5l?
I saw some 4l containers.

 

[MM]

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.

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

MM

 

[gazz]

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

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.

 

[Dave Liquorice]

Red diesel? Isn't that only for farm use?

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.

 

[Pete Verdon]

nope, it's for anything that dosent get used on the road

....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