It is -10 C and the boiler does not fire up.
The WB Danesmoor was fine yesterday but locked out this morning.
The oil tank supplies oil to the AGA and the boiler and is in the forcourt of old pigsties exposed to the elements.
T junction at the tank splits the supply using 10mm pipes.
One for AGA and one for boiler, different routes for each.
Had a delivery of 1000 litres last week.
Both pipes are insulated in that white covering and the AGA pipe has extra blue insulation, I think it is water pipe.
Both pipes go under ground after the T.
There is about 2-3 inches of each pipe exposed to the elements, but as I say the AGA works fine.
The boiler pipe then goes into the soil under a brick floor of old pigsties then through the pigsty wall and under pavings and comes up and then goes along the base of the wall all insulated pipe, then a valve, then the firevalve then the uninsulated pipe rises about a foot before going through the wall.
I disconnected the first valve and no oil is coming out. Gravity will give a flow, the tank base is 2-3 feet above the valve.
So the oil does not flow to the valve but it does flow to the AGA.
There is another property on site with its own oil tank and boiler with all exposed 10mm pipe from the tank to the boiler which all works and it has the tigerloop to get the oil up to the right level.
Heating oil is said to start freezing at -9C it is -10C.
Applied some rags soaked in hot water to pipes but that made no difference.
So I am stuffed until the sun shines?
The WB Danesmoor was fine yesterday but locked out this morning.
The oil tank supplies oil to the AGA and the boiler and is in the forcourt of old pigsties exposed to the elements.
T junction at the tank splits the supply using 10mm pipes.
One for AGA and one for boiler, different routes for each.
Had a delivery of 1000 litres last week.
Both pipes are insulated in that white covering and the AGA pipe has extra blue insulation, I think it is water pipe.
Both pipes go under ground after the T.
There is about 2-3 inches of each pipe exposed to the elements, but as I say the AGA works fine.
The boiler pipe then goes into the soil under a brick floor of old pigsties then through the pigsty wall and under pavings and comes up and then goes along the base of the wall all insulated pipe, then a valve, then the firevalve then the uninsulated pipe rises about a foot before going through the wall.
I disconnected the first valve and no oil is coming out. Gravity will give a flow, the tank base is 2-3 feet above the valve.
So the oil does not flow to the valve but it does flow to the AGA.
There is another property on site with its own oil tank and boiler with all exposed 10mm pipe from the tank to the boiler which all works and it has the tigerloop to get the oil up to the right level.
Heating oil is said to start freezing at -9C it is -10C.
Applied some rags soaked in hot water to pipes but that made no difference.
So I am stuffed until the sun shines?