Syphon oil from old tank to new tank?

lucast2007us

Hi guys so we are about to move into our new house but still have about 200litres of kersonse in our current tank.

We obviously want to take this with us to the new house we have 5 x 20 litre drums.

Is it easy to get the oil out? Would a Syphon hose into the top and then into the drums work? Or would we have to get a oil company or plumber to do this for us?

Atlantic Dawn

It's a lot of hassle for about €150, you then risk bringing a lot of dirt from the bottom of your tank to the new house, personally I would leave it. You will also have hassle the other end pumping it back in.

9935452

You could turn off the valve at the tank.
Disconnect the pipe off it. Then fill the 5 gallon drums off it.

John.G

9935452 wrote: »

You could turn off the valve at the tank.
Disconnect the pipe off it. Then fill the 5 gallon drums off it.

That's probably the best way as you won't be draining any water/dirt from the tank at that point, it will still leave ~ 80/100 litres remaining in the tank but far safer not to remove/reuse that especially if the tank has been installed for years.

JustJoe7240

John.G wrote: »

That's probably the best way as you won't be draining any water/dirt from the tank at that point, it will still leave ~ 80/100 litres remaining in the tank but far safer not to remove/reuse that especially if the tank has been installed for years.

Doesn’t Diesel drop out of water? In that case, would be more likely to collect water this way!

John.G

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

Doesn’t Diesel drop out of water? In that case, would be more likely to collect water this way!

Oil all ways on the top, water on the bottom.

Wearb

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

Doesn’t Diesel drop out of water? In that case, would be more likely to collect water this way!

Yes.

Carpenter

I have done and it's easy

monseiur

If you have a filter and lever valve at tank, just turn off valve, remove filter - it should screw off, then place small funnel - (home made one will do) between filter housing and your drum, turn your lever valve to open position, oil will flow into drum, when full turn off valve, then repeat process unit tank is empty - then refit filter for next tenant.
M.

John.G

If the OP is determined to remove ALL his oil then he would need a pump/hose, drop the hose right to the bottom of the tank and then pump out say 5 litres or so and examine for water/sludge. When my kero tank was emptied after 25 years, it was extremely clean, even right at the bottom.

Diesel (home heating oil) may be different but I'm afraid I don't understand posts #5 & 7 above.

elperello

If you are currently renting it's best not to interfere with any pipework/filters unless you are sure of what you are doing.

jimf

if you do decide to remove oil make sure you leave no leaks behind for next guy

it could potentially come back to bite your ass

last man usually gets the blame