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We are moving to a house with oil for first time-can you please recommend a high efficient oil burner? We need to install a new one in our basement and don't know what kind or what it should be made of?
We are moving to a house with oil for first time-can you please recommend a high efficient oil burner? We need to install a new one in our basement and don't know what kind or what it should be made of?
I converted over from oil to NG, and the gas company installed the line for free with the provision I would install a new, high efficiency boiler. They didn't have to got 3000 feet, but they had to dig under the hiway and shut down the road all day, and had a large crew out there working, so it was a major expense to them. It cost them some money, but now they have a new customer to pay them back for their effort. I would certainly ask them about it.
If you have no luck there, I would follow the above suggestion about propane. As stated, if you use a certain minimum amount of fuel, they drop the tank for free, and you just pay for the fuel. I'm sure you will more than use the minimum amount of fuel to get a free tank.
The very last option to consider is going back to fuel oil. Those fuel oil boilers use diesel fuel. Stop by your local gas station and check out the price of diesel fuel today. It's almost $5.00 a gallon..! Call your local bulk fuel distributor and see how much it costs to fill a 275 gallon tank. Mine was 675 gallons. and it was outrageous to fill, even a year ago when I last used oil, now it's double the cost. I'm sure the price hasn't stopped rising, unfortunately.
As far as where to purchase a boiler, jump into your local phone book. I purchased mine from the same dealer who had been servicing my antique oil burner furnace for many years
One more thing...... 3000 ft X .70 is $2100.00. To fill a 275 gallon diesel tank is $1375.00. A tank and a half of diesel fuel and you break even. I would seriously consider spending the money and eliminate future worries. If you fill the tank with oil, they want a check right now. If you use NG, you can get on the level pay plan and average the cost out over the year. Much easier to deal with. They would probably even let you pay the installation over time. I would try to get them to at least share the cost of installation.
I know finding extra money when you just purchased a home is tough, but think of the big picture and future ease and convience.
I know, decisions, decisions..... Good luck..
My above caculation didn't take into account that you were talking about replacing your fuel tank in the near future. I bet abandoning your oil tank, and having a new tank installed above ground on a concrete pad (Today's standard) will probably cost you almost as much, if not more, as the gas line installation. Plus you don't have an ugly tank stick out of your back yard.
Check out the cost of the different operations, and you may conclude NG is the only way to go.
oops..! I just re-read your post and discovered it's $70 a ft, not .70 a foot. That does make a difference..! That is an outragous price. I will still be talking to the gas company about that. Must be something they would/could do....
oops..! I just re-read your post and discovered it's $70 a ft, not .70 a foot. That does make a difference..! That is an outragous price. I will still be talking to the gas company about that. Must be something they would/could do....
Wow. Geo-thermal is not that expensive!
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