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
Make the purchase conditional on the removal of the tank, and any required soil remediation. (Your mortgage company is likely to want the same thing.) -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com ___________
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Here is the deal. Don't touch the property unless they remove the tank first. Here is why... Tanks haven't been buried in a long time. If they are in the ground, they are old. If they are old, they m
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
one they It's generally not legal to do that. typical abondon in place procedure involves cutting large hole in the top, removing the sludge, steam cleaning, and then back filling. Plus lots of explo
Interesting. Actually, it is under a deck. They did pump it out, but I'm not sure how much sludge they removed. It had been inspected earlier for leakage. I'm not sure what they did to determine ther
I just went through the same situation and it looks like everyone has offered the advice I would give, so I'll just summarize my experience. The contract of sale was written on the condition that the
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
Make the purchase conditional on the removal of the tank, and any required soil remediation. (Your mortgage company is likely to want the same thing.) -- David Scheidt dmscheidt at gmail.com
Author: eric at megageek.com (eric at megageek.com)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:13:02 -0400
Here is the deal. Don't touch the property unless they remove the tank first. Here is why... Tanks haven't been buried in a long time. If they are in the ground, they are old. If they are old, they m
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
one they It's generally not legal to do that. typical abondon in place procedure involves cutting large hole in the top, removing the sludge, steam cleaning, and then back filling. Plus lots of explo
Interesting. Actually, it is under a deck. They did pump it out, but I'm not sure how much sludge they removed. It had been inspected earlier for leakage. I'm not sure what they did to determine ther
Author: shop-talk2 at mcfetridge.org (shop-talk2 at mcfetridge.org)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:09:57 -0400
I just went through the same situation and it looks like everyone has offered the advice I would give, so I'll just summarize my experience. The contract of sale was written on the condition that the