On 11/15/2012 10:12 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:52:57 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

I've heard several of those tales of woe. The HO doesn't remove the fill
pipe. Minimally, dump a can of Great Stuff into the pipe, and cap the indoor
end.

Christopher A. Young
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"Oren" wrote in message
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...for fuel oil in Canada. House changing to Electric service.

"A home near Victoria had to be demolished after an oil company got
its addresses mixed up and delivered a load of furnace oil to the
wrong house."

"...I had disconnected the oil tank and was getting 200 amp service in
for electric heat," said Phillips.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/14/bc-oil-tank-saanich.html

Heard of several local cases -one where the truck driver cranked the
inverted filler tube around so he could fill it, and another that used
a pipe wrench to remove the cap from a capped off filler pipe. Both go
back quite a few years though.


A lot less likely that any driver would do that in todays litigious
world. A friend owns a liquid fuels business and one of their biggest
expenses is insurance for spills. They must have it since the terminal
will not even let them load their trucks without proof.

The drivers are trained to listen for the whistle vent and stop if they
don't hear it. Friend says that can take over a minute depending on the
size of the tank size and level. In that time they can easily pump 70
gallons.

He only had one case of filling a disconnected filler. Someone was on
automatic recurring service and they removed the old heating system and
tanks and they didn't even bother to do something simple like screw a
cap (maybe they were waiting to get a deal on the $2 cap at the flea
market) on the pipe coming through the wall. They also didn't notify
him. So one of his trucks stops on their scheduled route and pumps 70
gallons into a newly finished basement.