Has anyone had experience switching from oil to propane fired boilers?
I now have a 155,000 BTU Peerless boiler with a Beckett burner supplying the water for radient heat system.
With the oil going like it is & natural gas being sold by only one vendor I would like to convert to a propane fired boiler and am not sure if I should just install a second boiler next to the existing one or do you simply change the burner. The house is about 2500 sq ft ranch with a full cellar and the boiler also supplys the hot water.
Thanks for any advice.
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Have you don't any price checking of the fuels based on BTU content.
IIRC oil and natural gas usally cost about the same and propane is several times more expensive.
Well the differences are not as great as I was thinking.
But it appears that NG has always been the cheapest, then oil, then propane.
http://www.npga.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=914
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.
I read that the 2008 btu rating put $4 oil = $2.56 gas
Natural gas here is still regulated.
The 2007 table you attached shows oil at $2.22/gallon. I would never asked the question at $2.22. I could even live with $3.00 & have been (my last tank was a few dollars under $1000), but now it is closing in on $4.00 & I think it could be a lot higher next winter.