Please check your systems haven’t sprung a leak during the summer. Best to do this before you get a delivery of the expensive stuff. Clean up costs are crazy expensive and long term will cost you loads.

If you do have a leak please report it to the E.A. and your insurance company straight away. Not having insurance for this is scary.

Thanks and have a great weekend.

tough week at casa del pigface?

No Stoner a bit of ad hoc pollution prevention 😆 I will no doubt be going out to quite a few in the next few weeks and doing the usual of putting booms across waterways etc etc. Seeing the look on peoples faces when they realise it costs a grand to dispose of one ton of contaminated soil, they cant stay in their house due to oil ingress etc etc

I know how they must feel. I had a couple of logs fall off the wheelbarrow into the veg patch the other day. Oh the humanity 😉

You have my deepest condolences

Years ago when they put VAT on heating oil, I brimmed our tank one last time at the old price.

How I laughed when the site glass valve thingy sprung a leak and the whole 1000l escaped. Bolleaux.

Everything is normal now, birds tweet, grass green and hedges lush. All naturally, we just ignored it and refilled the tank after fitting a new valve.

EA pigface?

At least it’s easy to tell if the system is leaking because of the stink 🙂
Squeezed 1400L (a full 12 months consumption) into our 2500L tank 2 weeks ago at a cost of about £420 …. happy days

Best to do this before you get a delivery of the expensive stuff.

I bet sometimes the leak doesn’t show until you’ve had a delivery.

Scienceofficer Affirmative 😀

You can pressure test the system easy to do takes no time and can save you mucho dinero. Yes it is after new delivery that is all goes wrong, old plastic tanks, ruptured pipes, theft all sorts.

One of our neighbours had a leak a few years ago, but it leaked at the pipe where it went through the 2-3′ ft thick stone wall…

Huge job.

lol @ stoner!

slight tangent but a client had a hose pop off a pellet silo during a delivery – the resultant mess was something to see – the driver was around the corner from the silo playing with the airflow and wasn’t paying attention to the other end.

edit: silo and delivery system not designed/supplied by us btw!

I’m just in the market for a new tank as the old one is seriously rusty and all of 5 yds from the beck…

I work as a a specialist contractor dealing with the fall out from these kind of things. The longest I’ve had to move people out is 2 years and the greatest cost has been about 136k.

How bad it is depends on so many factors, including, but not limited to, where the leak happens, how much is lost, what the ground conditions are and how your house (and foundations) are built.

Completely forgotten about what happened to friends of ours when I was a lad until reading this thread. The tank leaked under the house, they had to have all the floors in the ground floor taken out and hand dug out. Took months and months and cost the insurance company thousands. It was unbelievable, think they were out the house nearly a year in total.

How do I get the pressure test done? Something I can do myself, do the oil delivery co’s do it or do I need to get my oil boiler engineer to do it?

Pressure test = fill her up and see if she leaks!! 😉