Paraffin storage

I recently bought 4l of the stuff for bike cleaning.

I'm now thinking it's bloody foolish to keep in the flat. It's an old Victorian building so potentially a massive fire risk. Even if the risk from light switches etc are low (it's under the bathroom sink and I don't smoke), the fumes aren't much fun.

I expect the landlord would have a fit if he found out I had it indoors...

I guess leaving it in the garden is irresponsible as any fule could get their hands on it.

I also don't have access to sheds.

So- do I just find a sealed container to store the bottle in or just hand it on to someone else?

Seems a shame to get rid as it's proved cheaper and better than branded products.

[yorkie_chris]

Whatever container it came in, or a petrol can.

I just keep 5L under the sink in the kitchen. Never even thought about it as being an issue.

[yorkie_chris]

Paraffin is less flammable than white spirit/turpentine substitute and everyone keeps a bottle of that kicking about!

As above it is not nearly as dangerous as other spirits etc, similar to having 100% alcohol about, no reason not to have it in the house.

[embee]

It's probably little different in flammability to cooking oil.

Paraffin burners usually have a sort of fuel preheater arrangement so once it's up and running it's actually vapour which is burning, getting them going on the liquid is often quite laborious.

I keep mine next to the 5L can of paint thinners.....................

Originally Posted by embee

It's probably little different in flammability to cooking oil.

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I keep mine next to the 5L can of paint thinners.....................

True, but cooking oil doesn't give off half the fumes that paraffin does.

Though most of the bike products I have are flammable too. But they are sealed better.

[yorkie_chris]

Why is it smelling, the cans you get it in tend to be pretty good. Have you spilled some pouring it out?

Don't know- maybe some residual leakage when it was packed. I did spill some when I decanted into a spray mister, but it was quite smelly before that. I wiped the spill up and left windows open for therest of the day..

I may srreptitiously see if the landlord has somewhere to store that I can access- he owns most of the road and there are a couple of garages about...