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Oil Tank.

Situation.

Double domestic garage. Inside at the rear is a large steel heating oil tank on blocks off a concrete floor at high level. A copper oil pipe runs down and underground across a passageway to the oil boiler in the house. Garage sockets and light TT earthed via a garage unit with a 30mA R.C.D. The garage earth electrode is about 1.5m from the buried copper oil pipe in the passage outside.

The house earthing system is TN-C-S. The copper oil pipe is main bonded at the house.

Are there any potential safety issues here?

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0 Zoomup over 2 years ago

broadgage:

Having the heating oil tank inside a presumably locked garage is a valuable precaution against theft. A neighbour has a garage like building specifically to contain oil tanks.
If this oil tank sprang a leak, the oil would flood the garage floor and then run down the sloping entrance ramp producing a skating rink for motorists on the adjacent road.
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0 Zoomup over 2 years ago

broadgage:

Having the heating oil tank inside a presumably locked garage is a valuable precaution against theft. A neighbour has a garage like building specifically to contain oil tanks.
If this oil tank sprang a leak, the oil would flood the garage floor and then run down the sloping entrance ramp producing a skating rink for motorists on the adjacent road.
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