Need help planning a fuel tank installation
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I’m planning for the installaiton of a fuel tak for home heating oil. I have a location picked out near an exterior wall. Because the tank is basically tight to the wall, there’s not enough room to us 45s to make the turns. Is it OK to uise 90s as shown in the attached drawing? Also, is there a minimum distance the tank must be from the furnace?
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Every one I have ever seen used 90° elbows
Distance to boiler or furnace - I am sure there must be some limitations based on the fact that flow is reduced by friction, but that can be overcome by larger diam supply pipe.
I have seen several that have a run of 40-60 feet with a 3/8" copper line
It does help if the tank is higher than the end use point. No sense in fighting gravity