Last year we received notice our outside oil tank needs to be replaced. It's a good thing we had a year's grace
since much of the "lid from the garbage can" has come off to reveal some truths about what appears to be, has a furnace
tech friend describes has, a scam.
Forced to confront the technology of fuel oil, and backed by my 66year old farm experience of removing and installing these things, I dove in for a crash course to find out all I can .
Incidentally, I would have liked to show here a won case of an owner who got a letter from his insurance company demanding he upgrade to a 12 gauge. I know this is hearsay, but apparently he won his case, but I guess there was a gag order since the web doesn't indicate such a hearing.
Back to reality, I went out to check my tank label. It was built in 1998, but I installed it in 2001. Now there's something fishy here. If I have a 15 year warranty for an outside tank and I'm good to 2016, why isn't my insurance honoring that warranty. Deeper still, why hasn't Ontario foreseen another empire building scheme in the works, and simply demanded the companies honor the warranty to it's owners.
Let's address the apparent arguments. Here are some absolute facts:
1/Oil tanks are now inspected by the oil provider when a contract is opened.
2/Oil tanks are inspected on every oil fill up.
3/Rarely does a tank gush out a leak, most likely, and here is the importance of statistics in all this, the oil will start with a slow
drip. The degrading of the metal is more a sloughing process, an area affecting rus process and the oil will emerge at a pinpoint
location.
4/ A slow drip will definitely cause a diesel oil odor discomfort in the living area of the home PRIOR to any major polluting.
So what are my options?. I could install my own tank but yes, never mind an inspection will show it was installed correctly, the inspecting unionized authority would of course reject it. Hey, no money to be had here!? Right?
I could hire my friend, but it's a case of principle I'll probably will go down kicking and screaming. :angry4:
But you'll note all these scams have one thing in common, not one will present non-conflicted statistics that yes indeed, the world had suddenly been flooded with diesel oil. No spike on a graph to study, no two or three year run up on the press with headlines that vast numbers of the Ontario population is being relocated by the thousands, or, that there is a conspiracy to hide the fact Al Quada is in cahoots with Canadian furnace owners, ....you get the drift.
Ontario, you want my full co-operation no questions asked, start presenting stats that the problem is has earth shattering has you say. While your at it, study beforehand typical insurance contracts with Canadians to understand the impact of the conspiracies they face and to ensure they adhere to product warranties. If they don't, then address that first.
Hey, why not a compromise. How about if I forget my warranty and have it changes after sayyyy.....13 years? I can meet the gov half way, since the case is in my favor anyway.
So who's first with his signature to have horrible butter knives taken off the world's kitchen table. What? You ask for statistics, what is that a change in policy.? :?
since much of the "lid from the garbage can" has come off to reveal some truths about what appears to be, has a furnace
tech friend describes has, a scam.
Forced to confront the technology of fuel oil, and backed by my 66year old farm experience of removing and installing these things, I dove in for a crash course to find out all I can .
Incidentally, I would have liked to show here a won case of an owner who got a letter from his insurance company demanding he upgrade to a 12 gauge. I know this is hearsay, but apparently he won his case, but I guess there was a gag order since the web doesn't indicate such a hearing.
Back to reality, I went out to check my tank label. It was built in 1998, but I installed it in 2001. Now there's something fishy here. If I have a 15 year warranty for an outside tank and I'm good to 2016, why isn't my insurance honoring that warranty. Deeper still, why hasn't Ontario foreseen another empire building scheme in the works, and simply demanded the companies honor the warranty to it's owners.
Let's address the apparent arguments. Here are some absolute facts:
1/Oil tanks are now inspected by the oil provider when a contract is opened.
2/Oil tanks are inspected on every oil fill up.
3/Rarely does a tank gush out a leak, most likely, and here is the importance of statistics in all this, the oil will start with a slow
drip. The degrading of the metal is more a sloughing process, an area affecting rus process and the oil will emerge at a pinpoint
location.
4/ A slow drip will definitely cause a diesel oil odor discomfort in the living area of the home PRIOR to any major polluting.
So what are my options?. I could install my own tank but yes, never mind an inspection will show it was installed correctly, the inspecting unionized authority would of course reject it. Hey, no money to be had here!? Right?
I could hire my friend, but it's a case of principle I'll probably will go down kicking and screaming. :angry4:
But you'll note all these scams have one thing in common, not one will present non-conflicted statistics that yes indeed, the world had suddenly been flooded with diesel oil. No spike on a graph to study, no two or three year run up on the press with headlines that vast numbers of the Ontario population is being relocated by the thousands, or, that there is a conspiracy to hide the fact Al Quada is in cahoots with Canadian furnace owners, ....you get the drift.
Ontario, you want my full co-operation no questions asked, start presenting stats that the problem is has earth shattering has you say. While your at it, study beforehand typical insurance contracts with Canadians to understand the impact of the conspiracies they face and to ensure they adhere to product warranties. If they don't, then address that first.
Hey, why not a compromise. How about if I forget my warranty and have it changes after sayyyy.....13 years? I can meet the gov half way, since the case is in my favor anyway.
So who's first with his signature to have horrible butter knives taken off the world's kitchen table. What? You ask for statistics, what is that a change in policy.? :?
