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Anyone else noticed a distinct shortage of paraffin for heaters of late? We normally get Bartoline paraffin from the local B&Q but they've been out of stock for ages. Similar story for online suppliers too. We tend to rely on a Zibro Kamin heater in our kitchen to get some quick heat of a morning, and we're starting to really miss it with the ongoing cold spells!
I get it delivered 1000 litres at a time. We have an oil fired boiler. I think heating oil is pretty much the same as paraffin. It certainly seems the same when I dip the tank with a bean can on a stick to nick some for motorcycle chain cleaning duties! Probably doesn't help you much, unless you know someone with oil fired heating.
It’s mostly on peoples’ chains now since the great waxing revolution.
You could try phoning local fuel oil depots (the places from where blokeuptheroad gets his 1000L delivered from) they might sell it in small containers ie 5L. Or, try farm services (ie Ripon farm services) or garden centres. its also known as premium paraffin
Crikey, this takes me back to my childhood! I lived in a council house with only a coal fire in the living room for heating, we had a fairly large paraffin heater, a bit like a small fridge, and I would be tasked with popping down to the garage just down the road next to the general corner shop owned by the same family to get the paraffin can filled up.
The shop was a really good one, sold most things including fresh meat, fish, papers, magazines, ice creams, etc, and it was about a five minute walk away, if that. We had three shops like that within a roughly ten minute walk, there’s nothing like that now, apart from a Tesco attached to a filling station and a Co-op, both about a half mile away.
'Dum dum dum, Esso Blue!'. For those of a 'certain age '... 😀
The smell of a paraffin heater always flashes my memory back to my grans outside toilet. The paraffin heater was to ensure the toilet water didn't freeze. The contingency if it did freeze was a toffee hammer hanging next to the squares of newspaper toilet paper
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For those of a slightly different age.