Actually the oil tank bit was kind of funny, on my part anyway. The house is basically an old summer bungalow, on a very large lot, for the area anyway. It's very cute. Thing is when it was built it didn't have heat, and water was provided to all of these bungalows via a large hose that ran in-between the properties in the back, in the summer only. Eventually people started converting the bungalows into fulltime residences. When they did the conversions they drilled wells for water and put in electric heat. This house never had oil heat, so there was no possibility of there being an oil tank. But one time when I was working in the part of the property that's mostly wooded, leveling things off a bit, I dug up car grill. So I did wonder if they were going to find more car parts in the yard, ha!. They found the metal lid to the old septic system, which I had since had replaced with a newer septic system. I told them what it was but they insisted on digging to check. Thing is they didn't even dig where the lid is, they would have had to go under a deck for the house to do it. Basically I think the inspection company just wanted an excuse to charge the buyers more for the inspection, they know the area and they know the difference between a lid to an old septic system and an oil tank when they are using the ground inspection equipment.
Things are moving along, I'm doing a little water chemistry myself for minor metal water issues, adjusting the water softener, but mostly it's a waiting game on the time it's taking to have the one water system installed, permits completed and inspections done for the Radon system. I'm no longer feeling the pressure of making the closing date the buyer wants. It's just not possible, because the companies I'm dealing with and the town are overloaded and understaffed, just like most these days.
