Oil Guage

[jennyjoan]

You know the little guage that some of it goes into your oil tank and connects to a plug in your kitchen - anybody have one and are they good. They measure the oil level in your tank.

I am thinking of getting one since the guage at the tank has become very cloudy and you can no longer the see oil level. Thanks

[Zacs-Master]

Yep, they do the job.

[jennyjoan]

thanks Zac - I have just got a number to ring but think they are off at weekend - how much would roughly be.

[Zacs-Master]

Can't remember Jenny, we got ours with a new plastic tank. Wouldn't have thought they'd be much more that £20/30.

[jennyjoan]

thanks Zac =- I was thinking in the hundreds which I couldn't afford so soon after Xmas. I do have an excellent boiler man who services my boiler every year - could he do it.

[Dogsbody2]

If you have a green plastic tank, by far and away the most common manufacturer is Titan. Titan supply two models of level sensor, a green one at £60, and a red one at £90. The red one also acts as theft deterrent as it sets off an audible warning at the internal display unit if the oil level falls rapidly during a theft.
Your service technician would be very able to fit it, my guess is for about £50. It's a task for a competent DIYer.

[Zacs-Master]

Ours is white.

[Dogsbody2]

Maybe your tank is not a Titan. This is what I'm referring - a Watchman
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/131286634949

[Zacs-Master]

Ours is a watchman.

[atalanta]

This happened to my father's oil system. We dropped a small orange plastic pellet into the open top of the gauge and it just sat on the top of the oil as a much more visible sign of the oil level.
I think the pellet had been part of a broken toy.

[Dogsbody2]

ZM. Options would thus appear to be:
a) Titan have run out of white plastic
b) Yours has become bleached due to sun over time.
No doubt you'll advise (if you think it still relevant to the issue in hand).

[Zacs-Master]

C) it was white to start with and is about 10 years old.

[bednobs]

i with zacs - mine is also white :)

[jennyjoan]

Well got my boiler serviced and boiler guy changed the guage to a new one and it is great - now can see oil level. The older one was probably 25 years old. He didn't recommend the plug in business.