out door oil tanks

ed wallace

I have a customer who lives in a mobile home has been heating with kerosene he says when he was heating with oil the oil would gel up in the winter my question is in Nova Scotia Canada ive seen a lot of outdoor oil tanks what do they heat with oil or kerosne ? any body in Canada on this web sight thanks in advance

ed wallace

outdoor oul tanks

I have a customer who lives in a mobile home has been heating with kerosene he says when he was heating with oil the oil would gel up in the winter my question is in Nova Scotia Canada ive seen a lot of outdoor oil tanks what do they heat with oil or kerosne ? any body in Canada on this web sight thanks in advance

bruce pirger

In our neck of the woods, fingerlakes region in ny state, 42 N Latitude, folks often put "winter mix" in their outdoor tanks. I think maybe 20% kerosene or something along that line.

We once had repeatedly cold nights, about -35F, for a week or so. One morning the oil had jelled enough apparently in the line that the scorched air burner wasn't happy and shut off. I got out the heat gun and warmed up the filter. This was in a very old, poorly insulated farm house with a very cold basement as well...especially when it is -35...night after night. Cold valley. Never have had any pipes freeze, although sometimes I wonder why not...suspect movement and proximity to the floor above.

Big Ed

One trick set up that I seen ..........They built a shed around the tank and ran a set of 100watt light bulbs in side. They were enough to keep the oil from jelling.....


P.S. -35 , dang that's cold......

hombre de oleo

outdoor oil tank

There are various types of fuel additives which lower pour point by 25 degrees F.( At minus 35 though you may want to stick to kerosene.) As little as 5-8 oz. per tank does the trick. An example of this treatment would be STR-2 sold at many local supply houses.

bluenose_8

mobile home furnaces

Oh the dreaded mobile home oil furnace.
I'm from Nova Scotia. I've seen both furnace(#2) and stove(#1)used in mobile home's tanks here. Normally I see stove used though. Your customer might of recieved a tank of summer oil? Was his oil piped in a two line system? Might have a condensation( water build up) in the bottom of top feed tank. I usually try to go with a single line set up on any outside tank and install the oil filter inside.Furnace will work fine, but don't forget to adjust the burner, furnace oil runs a little richer than stove.

JackFre

outdoor oil tanks

Not a good idea. K1 will offer the best option wiht the most reliablilty. Try to preheat if possible. Cold oil equals poor atomization/efficiency/reliability.

Roger Litman

Kerosene instead of #2

We service a number of mobile homes and run them only on #1 as there is much lower sulfur content and it will ignite more readily and not gel if we get a very cold spell. We believe that the heat exchanger life will be a lot longer laso. These heat exchanger are difficult to clean well and the cleaner flame and strainer in the oil pump are other advantages that we believe outweigh the cost differential.

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