[Shop-talk] New house / underground oil tank

[Brian Kennedy]

I had an underground oil tank for few years in OR. Heating bills were going
out of sight, so I switched to a heat pump and had them fill the tank with
sand. I sold the pumped out oil to a friend of a friend. Fortunately, this one
didn't leak, but I did hear a horror story or two about what happens if they
do leak. Sure glad it's gone.
Brian K

On Jul 24, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Aric wrote:

> Howdy all, and sorry for not paying attention when this topic went through
a
> couple months ago; I didn't realize we'd be buying a house or that it would
> have an underground oil tank.
>
> In a nutshell, I just found out yesterday that the house we're closing on
on
> Friday has a 1000 gallon underground tank of unknown (to me) age and can't
> for the life of me remember what the list had to say on the subject of
> underground tanks.  I recall something about old ones being potentially
very
> costly if they leak and that insurance for that sort of thing may or may
not
> be available.
>
> Mind refreshing my memory as to the gist of the earlier discussion?
>
> And for shop content, there's a dilapidated 30'x40' workshop on the
property
> that we'll be fixing up and putting a second floor on for storage space.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -aric.