I’m getting my oil boiler replaced with a heat pump in a few months (delivery delayed!). The old 2000 liter steel tank is built-in down in the basement so I have to get a firm in to recover the remaining oil, then clean out the tank with hot water and finally cut it into pieces to extract it for recycling. The cost is a fair proportion of the total install cost!
Cold cutting of a steel tank which has contained kerosene - either with an air chisel or reciprocating saw is fine in-situ without formal degassing (given the usual risk assessment and adequate ventilation). Kerosene has a low vapour pressure and flashpoint (the temperature at which it will generate a flammable vapour near its surface is 38 °C (100 °F) or higher.) So it's pretty safe and not like cutting up a gasoline tank. It shouldn't cost the earth to do
how many of those tanks have we shifted over the years mate, i remember bringing 3 back from scotland, up and back in a day....
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I’m getting my oil boiler replaced with a heat pump in a few months (delivery delayed!). The old 2000 liter steel tank is built-in down in the basement so I have to get a firm in to recover the remaining oil, then clean out the tank with hot water and finally cut it into pieces to extract it for recycling. The cost is a fair proportion of the total install cost!
Cold cutting of a steel tank which has contained kerosene - either with an air chisel or reciprocating saw is fine in-situ without formal degassing (given the usual risk assessment and adequate ventilation). Kerosene has a low vapour pressure and flashpoint (the temperature at which it will generate a flammable vapour near its surface is 38 °C (100 °F) or higher.) So it's pretty safe and not like cutting up a gasoline tank. It shouldn't cost the earth to do
Rich did well there, orrible job