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I want to keep two jerry cans of diesel in my garage (of the apartment building). Is there any rules in CH regarding this?
Your landlords rule, or your buildings bylaw PLUS the local fire protection regulations. The later usually limit the storage of combustible material in the Garage, and forbid the storage of fuel which is not in the vehicles tank.
Are you willing to read a site in German or use a translate program. This website explains that storing diesel at home is allowed, but that the storage room must fulfill certain requirements.
Google the following: diesel zuhause lagern schweiz
If underground car parking (tiefgarage),it’s basically a no.
https://hausinfo.ch/de/recht/wohnen-…iefgarage.html
BUt,what does the contract for the parking place says?
AFAIK it's not allowed to bring any additional fire-load into the underground garage.
While Diesel is not explosive, it's certainly not allowed for gasoline. If a fire would break out (even unrelated to your jerry cans), you would probably be found partially liable.
Your garage is not a storage place, it is a parking. You are not allowed to store highly flammable liquids in there. This is prohibited.
Can you store a spare jerrycan of fuel in your car?
If so, then just leave the jerrycan in the car... problem solved.
Why would you want to store diesel anyway, 2 jerry cans is really not much at all, 20-30 litres, depending on the jerry can.
Unless the garage is a shut box type it would be difficult anyway and if it is a shut box type, just make sure you keep the door closed
And it only keeps for 6-12 months.
Also consider that even when storage is allowed not all jerry cans are equally legal, make sure to pick an approved model.
If you are not reselling you do not need "an approved" jerry can !!!
I wouldn't do that unless it's tied up safely, otherwise a crash may send the can flying towards the passengers. Emergency braking may be problematic as well.
I only had to fill up diesel once: when I refueled my van I rented for a day for moving.
But Jesus Christ and Marie - who would want to store that stuff inside the car?
If it ever leaks out, you will never ever get the smell out.
OP hasn't really answered what he needs the stuff for anyway?
I used to keep 20 gallons of gasoline stored - just in case. Seems like a reasonable thing to do given what's going on with wars, spontaneously-combusting pipelines, etc...
... but I'm one of those people.
I remember only too well as a kid having to go out to the oil tanks in the shed in the rain, snow, sleet at god knows what horrid time of the night to pump a few watering cans of oil to fill the Ölöfen in each room. "EEK.EEK.EEK" stupid squeaky pump. Then drag the can inside without spilling, pouring into the Ofen and then trying to light the bugger. Put fire to the wax paper and hope the oil would ignite before the strip went out and the burner flooded. Because then you had to roll up your sleeve, lean into the burner and use enough Zewa to soak up the Torrey Canyon spill to get the thing dry again.
Them were the days before they added dye to the diesel so that you could no longer fill up the Mercedes with cheap Heizöl.
You can still fill the Mercedes with Heizöil.....just don't get caught !
You can buy fuel from Hornbach [comes in plastic containers] for garden tools? What the story with this if you cannot store fuel? I got a 2* and 4* container in the shed; wouldn't be able to run the lawn mower, snow blower, chain saw, weed wacker without it.
I come from Italy where there are approved jerry cans:
https://www.quotidianomotori.com/aut…re-la-benzina/
since this type of regulation is usually at least Europe-wide regulated, it might be worth checking for Switzerland as well.
And the reason for the regulation is, as far as I know, that not all plastic materials can withstand continuous contact with diesel & co, and the wrong material might lead to spillings and fire hazard. It’s a safety measure, it has nothing to do with reselling.
I've heard this many times.
Now, setting aside the couch experts, has anyone STORED diesel?
I can speak from experience here, we store anywhere between 10,000-30,000 liters of diesel, in barrels, for the generators that run the factory (family business).
This is in a country where fuel supply isn't exactly stable... so sometimes the fuel gets used, sometimes it stays.
So far, we haven't had issues - some of the fuel used was ~3 years old... but we don't really manage it, so I'm confident some was older...
Similarly, heizoel in houses is basically diesel... and that is typically kept about a year...
...are they diesel ?