Removing an oil tank

Beenie

We have gas central heating but the property still has the old original oil tank in the garage.

We would like to remove it as we need the space but wondered if this is a DIY possibility or one for a specialist company?

ukmike

I got rid of my old one with an angle grinder!

marleyboy

I imagine any removalist would happily take it for the scrap value alone

Beenie

ukmike wrote: »

I got rid of my old one with an angle grinder!

Weren't you bothered about blowing yourself up?

muckybutt

Local scrap man took mine away and gave me £50

Seronera

muckybutt wrote: »

Local scrap man took mine away and gave me £50

That's the way to do it!!:D

snowcat75

Beenie wrote: »

Weren't you bothered about blowing yourself up?

As long as the tank has only had kero, or diesel and it's vented the vapour will be non explosive, Unlike petrol tanks which can only be worked on by setting up a full purge.

The tank intact would however be worth a few quid, so bit of a pointless exercise cutting it up.

Beenie

Who do I contact then? Round here there are scrap metal dealers but you have to go to them, I don't think they come to the house.

Seronera

Beenie wrote: »

Who do I contact then? Round here there are scrap metal dealers but you have to go to them, I don't think they come to the house.

The first thing I'd do is ring one of them and specify they have to take it away. If they say "We don't doo dat" then ask them if they know anybody who does.

They are in business and most will have a contact who does collections even if they don't do it themselves. I've only been involved with one steel tank removal and in our case the scrappy came out with his flatbed which had a wee crane on it, and he lifted the tank very skilfully out of a back yard and over a garage in a trice. It would have taken us days to hack it up. We installed the replacement plastic tank which was a heck of a lot easier I can tell you.

Pennylane

Ring a local scrap man and they'll be round like a shot. Scrap is fetching really good money at the moment and that would be a great amount of weight. I doubt whether anybody will say "we don't do that." It's BIG money.

snowcat75

Pennylane wrote: »

Ring a local scrap man and they'll be round like a shot. Scrap is fetching really good money at the moment and that would be a great amount of weight. I doubt whether anybody will say "we don't do that." It's BIG money.

actually scraps at low at the moment and still falling, top of the market a couple of years back I was getting £185 ton on mixed light, last I ran in had slumped under the £100 mark, a tank is only around 250Kgs depending on the era it was made.


So the value vs the pickup value is minimal.


even non ferrous has hit a low.