Buying a boat with DIY Holding Tank

[RogerJolly]

I'm installing a holding tank. It will obviously be a DIY job - featuring hand-folded aluminum brackets, studding retaining bars etc. I think it's going to be easily fit for purpose though.

What would you think if you were a prospective buyer of the boat? What do we think a surveyor would say?

Cheers

 

[ryanroberts]

I would prefer plastic, but DIY or not wouldn't bother me if it seemed well done.

 

[RogerJolly]

Cheers Ryan. Is plastic. Just aluminum bracketry and wood/epoxy shelf, epoxied in place.

 

[ryanroberts]

Cheers Ryan. Is plastic. Just aluminum bracketry and wood/epoxy shelf, epoxied in place.

I bought a boat with a DIY fitted tank (and had lots of experience of the toilet bits of boating at least) so the sample of one is ok with it. You expect projects on new to you boats, just depends on the quality.

 

[mjcoon]

I'm installing a holding tank. It will obviously be a DIY job - featuring hand-folded aluminum brackets, studding retaining bars etc. I think it's going to be easily fit for purpose though.

What would you think if you were a prospective buyer of the boat? What do we think a surveyor would say?

Cheers

I'm not likely to be a buyer. But I would recollect the time I went on a Spring flotilla delivery cruise on a yacht which of course was supposed to have been maintained over winter. While taking a pee in bare feet the yacht went over a minor wave (nothing desperate; IIRC I was standing up!) the holding tank fell off its bulkhead behind a hatch and my feet were liberally splashed with sewage. So at least I did not lose an expensive pair of deck shoes (not that I have ever had such!)...

 

[mainsail1]

My view would be simply, does it look as if it is well installed? If so, it would not affect my purchase of the boat whether it was DIY or professional.

 

[laika]

Aren't all retro-fitted holding tanks essentially "DIY" anyway? The designs on the TekTanks web site have been submitted by customers.

What's important is surely how well fitted it is and whether the pipework obeys best practices.

 

[Stemar]

Provided it's the right plastic, designed for the job, it wouldn't bother me, but if you don't say it's DIY, how many would know? OK, in some cases it'll be obvious, but there will be other things on that boat to warn you off anyway