kiwikrasher wrote:StMarks wrote:D41 wrote:A metre!!? Holy crap, that's a lot of water!
Could be a lot worse.....
,,,, he could have an oil powered central heating system, and a non bunded oil tank.

You have experience with that situation?
And being a good oil and gas Tech, no way I’d have it non bunded

Fwiw with the benefit of hindsight, nor would I.
When I built my house I ordered the Oil Boiler from the plumbers merchants, and it came as a package complete with 15x radiators and the Oil storage tank.
I had researched the boiler that I wanted, and their "promotional package deal" seemed the best value for my Worcester Bosch boiler. I had no experience whatsoever of oil fired heating systems before that point and the 2500lt Titan oil tank they supplied looked to be excellent quality. I was pleased it was plastic not metal, as I felt that (not being susceptible to rust) it would last forever.
I now know that was muppetry of the first order, and have researched the subject of fuel oil storage sufficiently to believe that I should never have accepted the single skin plastic tank they delivered. - I guess experience is the most valuable (& expensive) commodity we ever really have.

Still what's a few thousand litres of fuel oil,,,,,,,,
,,,,, 'king expensive & damaging waste of my hard earned, that's what.!
I wish I'd originally had enough money to put in a good ground source heat pump system instead..