Tank

Less Stranglers, more Oil.

There’s a single skin 1200 litre plastic oil tank at one end of the site. At nearly 20 years old and the need to dig a 30 metre trench to the new boiler location, we’re going to replace and relocate.

That’s where the fun began. Initial site preparation was greeted with a distinct smell – that of a septic tank ‘soakaway’. We kept digging and revealed what we think is the old septic tank, still full! – call Shift**it

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A couple of concrete rigs with gravel between them, drain out (blocked). Anyone finding this interesting (a true test)?

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We’ll fill the centre with concrete, drop in a crate and fill with pipe bedding, then overflow through a drainage ‘field’.

Back to the oil tank – we’ll need to pour a slab (return of Mini Moore) but first knock in the shuttering and fill with MOT (Clive Hurt returns)

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Time to pour once we’ve worked out which end does it come out of.

We’re going to need a bit more than that! (There’s a theme developing).

Once the slab’s done, drop in the Qual-oil pipe, inside MDPE for a bit of protection.

AJ’s digger is back – the ‘fun’ you can have – split pipework everywhere

The tank goes in (thanks Rick), hand crafted by HH Pedder & Son

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