Seller charging for Liquid Gas left in the tank?

[ArtichokeAardvark]

I'm buying a house that runs on its own gas tank rather than mains gas. We've just had the Fixtures & Fittings form from the sellers and he has said that the remaining liquid gas in the tank is excluded from the cost of sale, and he wants a further £500 for the remaining half tank.

Is this normal? I've only ever bought places on mains gas before so not experienced it. I'm happy to pay it in principle but not if I'm being taken for a ride! Also have no proof of how much is actually in the tank and what that cost would be. Would I be unreasonable to ask for a photo of the gauge and a copy of his last bill to refill the tank?

TIA.

I left a nearly full tank at the last house we sold. Not the buyers fault that I had it filled thinking we'd be there all winter only to find the house sold in a day and we moved 45 days later. I also left over a cord of seasoned hardwood for the wood burner. It's not like I could take it with me and we had no one who could come and collect it to use for themselves.

Despite your last post, I really wouldn't agree to paying for that leftover gas. It's part and parcel of selling his/her property. In agreement with previous posters who have said that he can take it with him. I think the vendor is being greedy.

Just be careful he doesn’t run it dry. A customer of ours (the firm I work for service his lpg boiler) regularly runs low and “forgets to top up” and it ends up with him having to call us out for a costly purge of the oil line because it pulls all the crap through.

I had this. My vendors gave me the receipt to demonstrate the price, and say there were 400 litres in, asked me to pay for 200 litres. I thought that was fair.