Thinking about renting a house with an oil tank...

martindow

DVardysShadow wrote: »

If you go for it, get the tank dipsticked and put on the inventory. And get agreement for differences on exit to be paid either way written into your contract. Dipstick it on exit.

Agree with this. There are minimum quantities that can be delivered often 500 litres. You can't buy a small amount at the end of the tenancy to get it back to the starting point.

G_M

My tank is 2500 litres. I filled it last in March 2010 and it's pretty well empty now.

Having said that, I don't use the boiler much in summer - immersion heater for hot water. I'm currently waiting for the price to drop a bit before filling up (timing your re-fills cn make a big difference to cost so you're lucky to have a big tank.)

As others have said, make sure you agree with the landlord how much oil is in the tank at the start (in writing!) and that if there's more when you leave he'll 'buy' it off you.

quintwins

our tanks only 1200 litres our last one was 900 we generally buy 900 in the summer and it does us til the next year, we buy it in summer because it's cheaper however we rarely us it in the summer, it's usually it's lowest at the end of july

aliasojo

Thanks for all your replies, all info very much appreciated.