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billykan
Joined: 07 Jul 2008
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Location: Isle of Lewis
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 Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 8:35 pm Post subject: Garage heater.. |
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Hi everyone..
Getting my garage ready for winter, so i can work on the Ford Y through the winter..
So Looking to buy a heater for the garage..
Looked at the Hiton hp -115 Waste oil heater?. Any good?
Anyone on here got one?, heard of them or rate them?
Any recommendation's for a garage heater guy's
Thank's.
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kevin2306
Joined: 01 Jul 2013
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Location: nr Llangollen, north wales
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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Hi, no experience of waste oil heaters, but if you have good supply of waste oil sounds as if it would make sense.
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billykan
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Location: Isle of Lewis
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| Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Fancy a log burner but the thought of it burning away at night after you have finshed in the garage, when in bed puts me off..
Plus with the oil heater you can burn diesel and waste oil and have more control over the heating.. Plus years with free used oil,
Heater would pay its self off, in the long run.. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007
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Location: Edinburgh
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| Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:52 am Post subject: Re: Garage heater.. |
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| billykan wrote: |
Looked at the Hiton hp -115 Waste oil heater?. Any good?
Anyone on here got one?, heard of them or rate them?
Any recommendation's for a garage heater guy's
Thank's.
Billykan |
Hi Billy,
I too would be happy to heat my garage with waste oil but paying well over £1000 for a Hiton I'd be cheaper with electric fan heaters!
Peter 
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| It's worth remembering that many / all local authorities will, officially, require you to purchase a special licence to use a heater that burns waste oil - all in the interests of protecting the environment, of course, and nothing at all to do with paying the council's top brass telephone-number salaries... Of course you could do it quietly and say nowt, but if you're belching out black smoke or smelly fumes on a regular basis then chances are someone locally is going to grass you up fairly soon. I don't know how good these things are for smoke or fumes, but I'd hazard a guess that something burning dirty old oil isn't going to be as clean as a heater that runs on electricity or gas. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Out of interest do garages have to pay to have waste oil disposed of ?
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RUSTON
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| Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| ukdave2002 wrote: | Out of interest do garages have to pay to have waste oil disposed of ?
Dave |
A lot have their own oil heaters Dave so it isn't a problem! 
Pete.
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Dobbin
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Location: Central Scotland
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UKDAVE2002 To answer your question yes. The old saying 'where theres muck theres brass' is correct.
Businesses are required to monitor and control all waste leaving their premises and must ensure they only used registered waste carriers. All waste is identified by the unique code known as an EWC or European Waste Code http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/low_guide_v1.2_1397222.pdf
Having dealt with waste management in the past it can be a very expensive business to correctly dispose of waste streams. A 205L drum of used oil filters via a national waste management company costs approx £75 to dispose off. So remember that when you see environmental charges on your garage bill or when you get new tyres. |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Dobbin wrote: | UKDAVE2002 To answer your question yes. The old saying 'where theres muck theres brass' is correct.
Businesses are required to monitor and control all waste leaving their premises and must ensure they only used registered waste carriers. All waste is identified by the unique code known as an EWC or European Waste Code http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/low_guide_v1.2_1397222.pdf
Having dealt with waste management in the past it can be a very expensive business to correctly dispose of waste streams. A 205L drum of used oil filters via a national waste management company costs approx £75 to dispose off. So remember that when you see environmental charges on your garage bill or when you get new tyres. |
Thanks Dobbin
I was thinking if garages had to pay to take waste oil away, they would only be too keen to give it away, and we would have a cheap way to heat our own workshops! but alas that wont be the case with all the legislation !
Our local tyre shop manager was telling me of a scam; it costs them about 50p per tyre to dispose of old tyres, there was a firm came round saying that they could do it for 20p per tyre....it turns out that this bunch had hired a farmers barn, got a load of business from tyre shops, filled the barn to the brim with old tyres and then buggered off!...the farmer was left out of pocket for unpaid rent, but also had the cost of disposing of several thousand tyres
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| ukdave2002 wrote: | | Dobbin wrote: | UKDAVE2002 To answer your question yes. The old saying 'where theres muck theres brass' is correct.
Businesses are required to monitor and control all waste leaving their premises and must ensure they only used registered waste carriers. All waste is identified by the unique code known as an EWC or European Waste Code http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/low_guide_v1.2_1397222.pdf
Having dealt with waste management in the past it can be a very expensive business to correctly dispose of waste streams. A 205L drum of used oil filters via a national waste management company costs approx £75 to dispose off. So remember that when you see environmental charges on your garage bill or when you get new tyres. |
Thanks Dobbin
I was thinking if garages had to pay to take waste oil away, they would only be too keen to give it away, and we would have a cheap way to heat our own workshops! but alas that wont be the case with all the legislation !
Our local tyre shop manager was telling me of a scam; it costs them about 50p per tyre to dispose of old tyres, there was a firm came round saying that they could do it for 20p per tyre....it turns out that this bunch had hired a farmers barn, got a load of business from tyre shops, filled the barn to the brim with old tyres and then buggered off!...the farmer was left out of pocket for unpaid rent, but also had the cost of disposing of several thousand tyres
Dave |
That's happened several times around South Wales too, only on a larger scale - the crooks "rent" massive empty factories and warehouses, fill them to the rafters with tyres then clear off. Sad to say there's no shortage of empty factories and warehouses for them to target after decades of economic mismanagement  |
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014
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Location: Merseyside
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| ukdave2002 wrote: | Out of interest do garages have to pay to have waste oil disposed of ?
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Yes and no, depends on the current price of used oil, some places clean it up and sell it some burn it for heat / electricity.
You should issue a waste disposal notice to the person who gives it to you, you may also need a waste carriers licence to transport it.
I have a paraffin heater its excellent
http://www.dry-it-out.com/KSP-270
I was lucky it was £4 from a car boot sale!
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