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Possible boiler disaster any experts who can help?

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Boilerwoes · 05/03/2021 23:45

This is a bit of a bizarre story! We have a second home and we are visiting it this weekend (thankfully it’s a condition of our insurance we visit every 30 days) when we arrived at the house late tonight it was freezing we normally leave the heating on 16–17c. We quickly discovered the boiler wasn’t working it’s a brand new oil fired combi boiler. Then we find a note put through our letterbox; a fuel delivery company (not the one we usually use) has accidentally filled our oil tank with 500l of kerosene and obviously it’s got into our boiler and broken it in some way. How much of a disaster is this?
We’re going to try and contact the fuel company in the morning hopefully there will be someone there and the company who installed the boiler but an idea of how serious this is would be helpful.

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78percentLindt · 05/03/2021 23:51

Heating oil is kerosene - its usually referred to as 28second kerosene.
Are you sure you hadn't run out of oil and that has caused air to get in to the boiler.

Boilerwoes · 05/03/2021 23:55

No we have a note from the fuel company saying that they’ve “accidentally filled the tank with 500l of kerosene” the tank is now reading full it was 1/2 full when we were here 30 days ago.

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PigletJohn · 06/03/2021 00:25

Call your usual boiler maintenance company.

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