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05 February 2011, 08:38 AM
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FAO anyone with oil central heating...
Hi guys,
My mum has just moved into a property which has oil central heating... My question is this...
Should she be able to smell oil in the hall and the living room? Bearing in mind the boiler is in the garage and the tank is in the garden... And she had 501 litres delivered 3 weeks ago, and it is nearly all gone... She only uses the heating during the night so i cant see how its gone that quick.
Any input much appreciated...
My mum has just moved into a property which has oil central heating... My question is this...
Should she be able to smell oil in the hall and the living room? Bearing in mind the boiler is in the garage and the tank is in the garden... And she had 501 litres delivered 3 weeks ago, and it is nearly all gone... She only uses the heating during the night so i cant see how its gone that quick.
Any input much appreciated...
05 February 2011, 08:58 AM
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Current property, and last one (less than a year ago), has an oil fired boiler and no, no smell of oil anywhere. Sounds like she *may* have a leak but check other things first. Like how much she has the thing on?????? All night is it?
My boiler is in the garage and, as it isn't heated, there is a frost stat on the wall which kicked in at about 5 deg. C. Trouble was whoever installed it hadn't put in any means of then shutting it off so if it did get to 5 deg C the boiler stayed on until it warmed up again. Doh! Anyhow, fixed now with the addition of a pipe stat (monitors the return temp. of the water to the boiler) but before that it'd be on all the time if we hadn't turned it off manually. Check things like that.
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My boiler is in the garage and, as it isn't heated, there is a frost stat on the wall which kicked in at about 5 deg. C. Trouble was whoever installed it hadn't put in any means of then shutting it off so if it did get to 5 deg C the boiler stayed on until it warmed up again. Doh! Anyhow, fixed now with the addition of a pipe stat (monitors the return temp. of the water to the boiler) but before that it'd be on all the time if we hadn't turned it off manually. Check things like that.
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05 February 2011, 09:02 AM
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Current property, and last one (less than a year ago), has an oil fired boiler and no, no smell of oil anywhere. Sounds like she *may* have a leak but check other things first. Like how much she has the thing on?????? All night is it?
My boiler is in the garage and, as it isn't heated, there is a frost stat on the wall which kicked in at about 5 deg. C. Trouble was whoever installed it hadn't put in any means of then shutting it off so if it did get to 5 deg C the boiler stayed on until it warmed up again. Doh! Anyhow, fixed now with the addition of a pipe stat (monitors the return temp. of the water to the boiler) but before that it'd be on all the time if we hadn't turned it off manually. Check things like that.
Dave
My boiler is in the garage and, as it isn't heated, there is a frost stat on the wall which kicked in at about 5 deg. C. Trouble was whoever installed it hadn't put in any means of then shutting it off so if it did get to 5 deg C the boiler stayed on until it warmed up again. Doh! Anyhow, fixed now with the addition of a pipe stat (monitors the return temp. of the water to the boiler) but before that it'd be on all the time if we hadn't turned it off manually. Check things like that.
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05 February 2011, 09:21 AM
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This time of year we're using about 15 litres day - that's for an hour in the morning, 4.5 hours each evening and a couple of extra hours each day at the weekend. It is a 5 bed house (18 rads) and the boiler also supplies the hot water.
The boiler is 15'ish years old and I believe is only about 70% efficient. Looking to replace this year with a newer condensing boiler that should give us 95+% efficiency.
The boiler is 15'ish years old and I believe is only about 70% efficient. Looking to replace this year with a newer condensing boiler that should give us 95+% efficiency.
05 February 2011, 09:30 AM
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Wow! 500L in 3 weeks. We had our central heating on 24/7 during the cold snap and on for more than 10 hours-a-day at other times, and used 800 liters in 10 weeks (our boiler is pretty efficient - 89% - and the house well insulated). Our house is 800ft above sea level, detached, and in the middle of a moor with no neighbours, so the elements hit us pretty hard..it's always windy here.
She shouldn't smell anything although that might depend on where the flue for the boiler is and the prevailing wind direction.
Definitely sounds like a leak.
She shouldn't smell anything although that might depend on where the flue for the boiler is and the prevailing wind direction.
Definitely sounds like a leak.
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05 February 2011, 10:51 AM
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With that set-up you shouldn't smell oil in the house but you may smell paraffin. We get the odd wiff if the wind is blowing in a certain direction, it sends it down the chimney.
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