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100 liter tank

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  • 10-01-2021 2:59pm
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    yourdeadwright
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    Hey lads

    Just a quick question the parents have one of the old school oil tanks, you know the metal rectangular ones, im guessing its 100 liters,
    Its just over half full i was just wondering how long do you reckon half a tank lasts for just doing the heating in the house? Obvious answer is to find when they filled it but they cant remember there getting on

    Considering its January how long would it last

    I know its impossible to be exact but a guesstimate


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    Turbohymac
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    All depends on how many hours in each 24 there using the heating and how efficient is their boiler/burner.. running normally without the burner ever switching off (which it does with the temp stat) the jet in burner would be rated from 0.45 to0.65 gph so do the maths.. normally I'd guess no more than 12 litres per 24 hours..but that's only my house other people have heating running all day


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    Wearb
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    Are you sure it's 100 litres? That would be smaller than the tank in the average hotpress.

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    Calahonda52
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    more like 1000l
    measure it: L by B by height and allow a loss of maybe 2" on the bottom for sludge etc
    so a tank 1.5 long, 0.6m wide and 1.2m high = 1.08 cubic meters or 1,080 litres

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    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users Posts: 20,523 ✭✭✭✭yourdeadwright


    Wearb wrote: »
    Are you sure it's 100 litres? That would be smaller than the tank in the average hotpress.

    Sorry 1000


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    Wearb
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    yourdeadwright wrote: »
    Sorry 1000

    Rough guess, 2 months on average.

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    John.G
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    "Average" around 8 litres/day (based on my own), half tank, say 500 litres but allow up to 100 litres unusable so 400 ltrs @ 8 LPD = 50 days so top up due ~ last week of February?.


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