Steam Furnace

Furnace was cleaned today by Mike's Heating and Cooling. The guy told me the burner can be replaced with a gas one for ~$3200. That would probably be wise.

It would also be wise to specify:

• existing burner gpm and nozzle angle
• gallons of oil used last year

And also to look online for advice. The HeatingHelp forum has discussion of this, for instance.

-- BenDugan - 01 Jul 2022

Jeni and I talked about this. She was billed $5,743.68 last year for oil. We are guessing that gas might cost half that much for a year, but that is just a wild guess. But we are installing mini-split heat pumps so we're thinking: run one more year on oil. That way we can more directly compare this year with last, and the cost of installing a gas burner next year should be about the same. And we can use up the oil next February and then burn wood and use the mini-splits.

I will call Michael's Heating today to tell him.

There are more notes on the steam system here:

• spreadsheet
• doc

-- Main.BenDugan - 03 Jul 2022 - 09:46