We're selling our house and one of the questions our buyer's solicitor has asked us to get a heating engineer to comment on is that the buyer's surveyor said "the oil tank is too small and it could therefore leak". Those are the precise words as presented to us. How do you define when a tank is "too small", other than by the frequency with which you need to get it refilled. Why is a smaller tank "therefore" more likely to leak? Is there something very obvious that I am missing, or have they lost the plot? For the record, it's a 1400 litre bunded tank which needs to be filled about once a year, so the tank is plenty big enough for purpose and does not need to be refilled every few weeks or anything like that. And even if it did, that would not make it more likely to leak.

Simple answer is that your buyer needs to get their own heating engineer to comment on that.

"The oil tank is too small and it could therefore leak" - logic?

Dec 08, 2017 21 Replies

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Ash Burton 8 years ago

I think you might call it 'fake logic'.

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ARW 8 years ago

Or bollocks:-)

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