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In today's episode. We're going to talk about why someone would want to install a new oil tank at their home in 2020. We're up here in Andover, New Jersey and up here they don't have access to a gas line in the street.
So this client has no choice but to install an above-ground oil tank or they could do a propane tank, but then they would have to upgrade their furnace. So most of the time what happens is we take the underground tanks out and we install a new above-ground tank and that's what we're doing today. We're pulling (2) 1,000 gallon underground tanks. It's a very big house. It's like a 10,000 square foot house. They have two tanks and we're installing to above-ground Roth tanks in the basement of this house.
Do you want the tree out? You sure? Where you going to put it? Just knock everything over. We're going to put all the debris over here the tree the limbs all the stuff. What do you want to do it? Just put it over there. Okay. Can I come inside to see where the lines come in? Water here? Yeah, water going out so we should be all right. We should be able to find that these lines here. You know Matt everything that we have is 3/8. That's 5 feet 5 11. So you got two sets of lines. What is it, three tanks total? I don't know. You're hooked up to one tank right now only used one.
Right now we are pumping out this thousand gallon tank. We're trying to salvage some of the oil I get this question a lot when you're removing an underground tank installing it above ground tank. Can you salvage the oil that's inside the underground tank? Technically. Yes, we can we try to salvage the first, you know anything but essentially the last eight to ten inches because that's going to be a lot of sludge. We're going to basically hold the pump off the top we're going to suck off the top all the good oil and then we're going to transfer that into the new tank once it's up and running. That's where we can save the customer almost 300 gallons of oil here The tanks are surrounded by sand which is good.
They should pop right out but the downside to that is if oil leaked out it travels really far So we'll see what these tanks look like. Once we pop them out so far so good, but you can never know until you remove them. It was a very very very small leak here. We've cleaned it up took a couple tons of soil out and this guy's gonna be good all his samples should come back good, we are about to check the soil now but it all looks good looks good. So, you know the next step in the process here is we're going to because there was a confirmed discharge. We now have to grab our samples after we remediate it. We're going to take six samples from each tank.
We have two 400 gallon Roth tanks here These tanks are double-wall what that means is there's a polyurethane plastic inner tank. Then there's a steel outer tank. So they're basically getting two tanks for one the other benefits of this tank. It comes with a million dollar insurance policy So God forbid it does leak, it will be covered by the manufacturer It also has leak protection warning which is up here in the corner. You got this leak protection, which if the inner tank starts to leak it'll show that it's leaking inside.
So, you know, you can catch it before it comes to major problem. I've never seen one of these tanks leak ever I've been doing this for almost 25 years. I've never seen one of these tanks leak. So these are the tanks we recommend to put in 400 is a bigger size tank. Typically, if you're pulling out a 550 gallon tank your going to put in a 275 gallon aboveground tank but in this case, we pulled out two 1,000 gallon tanks So were putting in 2-400 gallon Roth tanks Okay.
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