Non-mains drainage and no gas (oil)

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Hi, I am considering buying a rural home which has oil fired central heating (no gas to the property) and also is not on mains drainage. Are there any issues i should be aware of about either of those things? Thanks for any advice/opinion

you will have to budget for your septic tank to be emptied and maintained
the oil I am unsure of but I have gas and I fill it annually for £700 and have a maintaince fee of £180

I have my heating on daily until the weather turns warm - in a large detached house - so I think it’s cheap enough

where do your gutters drain to etc- this can flood your septic tank but the use of water buts are great and also comes in handy for any water cuts

My new sewage treatment plant installed a couple of years ago was around £12,000.

Our most recent one was a similar price and that was for a large model. I don't know why people post if they have no idea what they're talking about.

We've got oil heating, it's common where I live so we've had no issues getting the oil boiler repaired/serviced/replaced. Main thing is being organised and not leaving it till the last minute to order as you can be charged extra for v short notice deliveries. But obviously the amount you can order in one go is constrained by the tank size as well as cost.

Also if buying a house with an oil tank, get the condition of the tank checked if you can. We got stung a couple of thousand to replace our tank as the plastic was starting to degrade (from the sun). And due to changes in building regs the replacement couldn't go where the old one had been as they are no longer allowed to be close to your boundary.

Mine was £20,000 last year

Oil tank: get a mobile watchman so that you can easily check how much is in there. It sounds as if you're going to get Aragorn on horseback but it's just a hockey-puck shaped thing that goes on the inner lid, estimates how much you have left every 24 hours, and talks to your phone.

The only hassle is setting it up. You'll need to know (or work out) the make and model of the tank, then use that to find out exactly how many litres it takes and what its dimensions are. I ordered some oil after I'd set mine up to check how accurate it and was impressed. You can set them up to give you a notification at a pre-set level, so you're not caught out with bugger all in the tank and a two-week wait in January.

It's a lot better than trying to work out what you've got in there in dim light on a wet winter afternoon, and it also lets you order pretty much exactly what you need to fill the tank right up.

We have LPG and a septic tank. LPG is okay in price if you are careful. We supplement with woodburners in main living rooms, so central heating is for background. LPG cost for a 4 bed detached is about £1500 a year. You tie in to a two year contract and then can negotiate a new contract; there are comparison websites that will do this for you. We've used these to negotiate down our current supplier.

We cook on electricity; monthly direct debit is £75. Spend about £400pa on logs.

Septic tank is more of a worry for us; waste is pumped up to a drainage field and we seem to have a problem somewhere along that line and/or with the drainage field itself. A new system will cost about £8k (not tens of thousands as previous poster said). It is a pain to have to worry about drainage.