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Here gas is $.35 a therm (100,00 - 110-000 BTU), Oil is $3.99 a gallon (144,000l BTU) Do the math. No wonder we are doing so many oil to gas conversions. 40 years ago it used to be the other way around. Oil was cheaper than gas.
Originally Posted by lytning Heck if you have an oil leak, you have a mess or maybe a fire. If you have an gas leak all you have left is toothpicks. Now what do you prefer ? As Lytning said, we have a saying here in Maine, "Oil wipes up. Gas blows up." I do both, alot, and I am way less nervous on a 4 million btu boiler burning oil than I am on a 4 million btu boiler burning gas. Just saying.
Heck if you have an oil leak, you have a mess or maybe a fire. If you have an gas leak all you have left is toothpicks. Now what do you prefer ? Originally Posted by hurtinhvac While acknowledging I'm completely ignorant concerning oil burning furnaces; I still don't know how people sleep at night with all that fuel in their basement or right outside the kitchen door in a shed. How many gallons is that? Get tremors or quakes in NH? DC had one a couple years ago, did they not? {shivers}
Ya know, those oval tanks can be turned into nice pig cookers.
I have dug a few buryied tanks up. All were round, but maybe that was the intentsion.
Originally Posted by lytning Horizontal tank ? Legs on side ? Pretty sure the tappings would be on the opposite side from the legs from what I remember.
Originally Posted by canman13 Oil is very safe you can throw a match in the tank and it won't light needs to be itemized. The tank holds 275gal. And yes we got a quack here too did you post this with Tapatalk? if so, to those that read this, it is auto correct with no ability to choose something else.
Originally Posted by hurtinhvac While acknowledging I'm completely ignorant concerning oil burning furnaces; I still don't know how people sleep at night with all that fuel in their basement or right outside the kitchen door in a shed. How many gallons is that? Get tremors or quakes in NH? DC had one a couple years ago, did they not? {shivers} ya know, when cars were invented, the whole downside was that "they use gasoline....and that stuff EXPLODES!!" now any idiot can pump their own gas. a tank full of oil is as safe as your car gas tank, your motorcycle gas tank (betwixt your legs), or even your gas can in garage....well, it's probably safer than your gas can in the garage!
Originally Posted by canman13 Oil is very safe you can throw a match in the tank and it won't light needs to be itemized. Itemized? Don't you mean atomized?
Electrical Energy in bc is about 9 cents a kw hour last I checked. Even at that, it is cheaper to heat my place with natural gas than electricity. Not sure about heat pumps and the seer ratings vs gas. Sent from my HTC One S using Tapatalk 2
Quite sure the DOE is saying that it now costs about the same as to heat your home with electric baseboard. Originally Posted by canman13 On a 2000 sq foot house it's around $2000 for the heating season
Back in my drinking days I tested the cigarette in a 5 gallon bucket of gas. It went out 9 out of 10 times. Think the reason it ignited the last time was because someone kicked the gas can. Originally Posted by hurtinhvac Yes...I do recall from school (I think we had a week on them towards the end of advanced heating) the atomizing part and the importance of nozzle size. I'm also told I could stand atop a 5 gallon bucket of gasoline and drop a lit cigarette straight down into it and it would be immediately extinguished. I can see that as well, but not about to test it. I'm just thinkin' you should probably earn a bit more than a humble natural gas guy like me. Do they still have a retry button that the HO can keep pressing and dumping diesel when it's having trouble lighting off? And a step up transformer that could wallop the hell out of you? Or have they been modernized a bit as of late?
Horizontal tank ? Legs on side ?
No there were no bungs at all. No idea it's like they made there own tank.
That's weird it does not even look like it has leg bungs, was this a horizontal tank with the leg bungs in the back? And yes, I would not be able to sleep with that tank in my basement.....
Originally Posted by canman13 And yes we got a quack here too A little 'duck' tape will fix that for you.
Originally Posted by hurtinhvac Yes...I do recall from school (I think we had a week on them towards the end of advanced heating) the atomizing part and the importance of nozzle size. I'm also told I could stand atop a 5 gallon bucket of gasoline and drop a lit cigarette straight down into it and it would be immediately extinguished. I can see that as well, but not about to test it. I'm just thinkin' you should probably earn a bit more than a humble natural gas guy like me. Do they still have a retry button that the HO can keep pressing and dumping diesel when it's having trouble lighting off? And a step up transformer that could wallop the hell out of you? Or have they been modernized a bit as of late? They still have both newer ones you can only reset 3 times after that it goes into a hard Lock out. I have not heard that about Gasoline I would think it would go right up.
Originally Posted by canman13 Oil is very safe you can throw a match in the tank and it won't light needs to be itemized. The tank holds 275gal. And yes we got a quack here too Yes...I do recall from school (I think we had a week on them towards the end of advanced heating) the atomizing part and the importance of nozzle size. I'm also told I could stand atop a 5 gallon bucket of gasoline and drop a lit cigarette straight down into it and it would be immediately extinguished. I can see that as well, but not about to test it. I'm just thinkin' you should probably earn a bit more than a humble natural gas guy like me. Do they still have a retry button that the HO can keep pressing and dumping diesel when it's having trouble lighting off? And a step up transformer that could wallop the hell out of you? Or have they been modernized a bit as of late?
Originally Posted by timtanguay I don't see oil burners around here. What does it cost to run them on an average sized house? On a 2000 sq foot house it's around $2000 for the heating season
I don't see oil burners around here. What does it cost to run them on an average sized house?
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