We have recently moved house and I need to buy some heating oil. What is the routine, call a company and ask them to deliver XXX litres of heating oil. Do you have to pay up front, or do you get a paying in slip, or can you pay over a number of months. Any help / advice appreciated.
lots of online places where you can get a quote, agrola, migrol etc. or call avia etc. just type heizoel into google.ch
You say if you want xxxx litres (often cheaper the more you buy) or them to fill the tank.
They come, connect up the tanker to the filling point (you have to tell them when you order if it's a huge distance etc), you sign a receipt from the tanker which has counted the litres discharged and they send you a bill in the post.
edit: Oh and you choose the type (quality) of oil you want. we pick "schwefelarm" (low sulphur) which costs slightly more.
Check your heating oil tank for a little tag or card. We have one on both of our heating oil tanks that list the date filled, the amount and it has the phone number and name of the company. Am guessing yours might also have this somewhere???
We have an official (red) book - it's called "Tankkontrollheft" and it needs to be filled in for each delivery with how much was in the tank before and how much they filled. It says on the front that the tank must not be filled without having the book.
When we had a heating oil tank, the company just wanted to know its overall capacity so they could decide what size truck to send.
Oh, and the prices are MUCH lower in the Summer months.
Only an idiot would wait until the depths of Winter, then pay over the odds for the oil, not to mention having to help the truck driver shovel a path through the snow to the cellar for the oil pipe, becasue the truck couldn't make it through the snow to the actual house......
Telandy, you might ask your neighbors what they do. Often a Quartier or neighborhood buys as a group.
This is what we do - one neighbor organizes it, watches prices during the summer, etc. Then he orders for the whole neighborhood, getting a discount for the large order.
yes. and check your boiler ahead of time before buying the oil.
when mine stopped yesterday, i opened up the unit to find a warning label that it required oil with sulphur content <50ppm whereas I bought oil with <1000ppm sulphur