Tanks-a-Lot

When an oil tank starts leaking in January, the only question that matters is how fast someone can get it out. That is the job Tanks-a-Lot is built around: a crew out of 110 School St in Everett that pulls and replaces residential fuel oil tanks — basement, above-ground and buried. Its Better Business Bureau page carries an A+ grade and lists the business under oil burners. Across 96 Google ratings the average sits at 4.3, and three things repeat in the write-ups: speed, a clean basement, and a number that came in under the other quotes. In July 2026 a homeowner described a crew swapping out a 25-year-old tank and repositioning the new one to free up garage space. In May 2026, another had five old tanks — three of them buried in sand behind concrete blocks — cleared out of a six-unit Jamaica Plain condo building in two days. An October 2025 review shows the work going past a straight swap: a leaking 275-gallon tank replaced along with the oil filter, more than fifty feet of feed line, and a lally column installed to bring the system up to code, with plastic down and nothing spilled. The complaints are consistent enough to plan around, and they are rarely about the tank work. They are about the phone. In a July 2025 review, a homeowner said the crew turned up at the wrong address and was rude to his wife when she told them so. Days earlier that month, a customer of many years called them the rudest people to work with and said the work was sometimes subpar. A 2024 reviewer had a confirmed date turn into a no call, no show; another that year described being interrupted and pushed off the phone. A 2023 two-star account is the fullest version: four attempts to pin down a time window, a crew that arrived twenty minutes outside it, and a damaged basement door left behind. On Reddit in March 2026, a commenter said Tanks A Lot quoted $4,000 to pull and replace a steel tank and put that in line with a $4,000–$5,000 going rate. In the same thread, another commenter was puzzled to be steered away from a Roth double-wall tank toward a Granby single-wall — worth asking about directly, since which tank you end up with is the decision you live with for decades. If the tank is failing and you need it gone this week, this is the shop people keep saying showed up the same day, cleaned up after itself, and charged less than the next bid. Pin down the arrival window before they roll, confirm in writing which tank is going in and why, and know that the praise here belongs to the field crews — the friction shows up at the front desk.