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Paul[_46_]

wrote:
My oil heating service, with whom I have a maintenance agreement,
told me they had to remove the dresser coupling between the tank fill
line and the tank in my basement to replace it with a "black" union
and charge me $250.00 for that job.
This dresser coupling was installed with the tank about 10 years ago
and looks perfect with no sign of leakage. They say that they cannot
make further fuel deliveries until that coupling is replaced. Can you
confirm this necessary? I am in NY state.

This is an insurance problem, not a government regs problem.

The fuel oil company has insurance. They have rules
as to what will void a policy claim.

Your homeowner insurance policy also has rules.
Both insurers could "walk away" in a leak incident.
Leaks cost $100K to $200K to clean up. The insurance
behaves like scalded-cats when you phone up about that.
They can't run fast enough.

Try the alt.home.repair USENET group for an opinion.

In some countries, big tanks are all the rage. In Germany,
the fuel oil tank holds enough oil for the entire
heating season. New Yorkers like their 600 gallon buried
fiber glass tanks. Up in Canada, we're relative wimps, and
200 gallons of the stuff in a basement steel tank, is enough
liability for us. Which might require three or
four fills a season. A leak in a German system is the
kind I'd be fearful of. Huge huge tank.

Paul