Are you in a home not served by the national gas grid?
Are you looking for competitive heating oil prices?
Why not talk to the friendly team at Tate Oil, we supply and deliver fuel nationally, so why not give us a call?
Need a new boiler, tank or a service?
Talk to our specialist heating team or visit Tate Heat for further detail.
We can also help you to find the most reliable oil boilers, based on owner and heating engineer feedback. Our top five boilers are all 90%+ energy efficiency rated and offer a range of heat outputs from 15 to 41kW (based on model).
- Worcester Bosch Greenstar Heatslave II
- Grant VortexBlue,
- Mistral Combi Standard
- Firebird Envirogreen Combi
- Warmflow Utility HE Combi
What type of heating oil do I need?
There are two types of domestic heating oil:
- Gas heating oil – more commonly known as 35-second oil or red deisel. This type of oil is generally used in older boilers.
- Kerosene heating oil – more commonly known as 28-second or Ultra 35. This is the most common fuel type used to heat UK homes.
If you have just move home and have oil fired heating, you’ll need to establish the type of fuel to be used. More often than not the boiler or the storage tank will be clearly labelled, indicating the fuel type to use. If not, you could ask the previous owner and if they can’t help ask us for assistance.
Premium heating oil, is it worth paying the extra?
Premium heating kerosene contain additives which makes it burn more cleanly and efficiently.
Although premium kerosene may cost a little more than standard kerosene; typically around £20 per 500 litres, it does bring additional benefits:
- Cleaner & more efficiently running appliances
- No need to modify boiler – Converting to Premium kerosene, does not require costly modifications to your boiler or appliances.
- Your kerosene lasts longer – This means that your fuel deliveries will last longer ,saving you money in the long term
- Reduces risk of expensive unexpected repairs – Fuel-run appliances often require regular maintenance as standard, however the use of clean kerosene will reduce the risk of additional call out charges and expensive part replacements.
- Better for environment – your boiler will run more cleanly and efficiently.
The Tate Oil Freedom Account
The Tate Oil Freedom Account is designed to take the stress out of ordering, so that you can focus on more important things.
The Freedom Account is a monthly payment scheme designed to pay your annual fuel cost, so that you’re not faced with an unexpected bill. Membership of the scheme come with benefits:
- VAT free pricing, saving you money.
- Free premium additive as standard.
- Priority deliveries.
How much does heating oil cost?
The price of heating oil, like petrol, can dramatically rise and fall over time. We have seen this happen over the course of the past few years. Price rises and falls are down to a number of factors:
- Global production, increasing and decreasing demand.
- Extreme weather conditions.
- Political changes and unrest.
Prices can also vary depending on where you live in the UK, the time and amount that you buy.
In July this year, the average price for a litre of Kerosene was around 25p. This was the lowest price that Kerosene had been in the past 4 years.
The graph shows how the average price of Kerosene has gone up and down over the past 5 years.
Prices in general were rising between January 2016 and April 2018, at which point they remained at around 50p per litre until January 2020. Prices then started to fall because of falling oil prices due in the main to the coronavirus epidemic, but who knows what will happen to oil prices in the future?
Average Kerosene prices (source Sutherland Tables)
Sutherland Tables collect data from across the UK each quarter.The January pence per litre price is the average of November, December and January prices.
