I had my HVAC sub contractor over tonight to look at the wood gun and give a price to install it.
We are talking about the burner and he is looking it over. We are discussing the options of hooking it in series or parallel with the existing oil burner.
THEN we go into the basement and he sees my oil burner. There's silence, then he says "are you kidding me this is a piece of junk that is original to the house (1951)
you HAVE TO RIP THIS OUT. The wood gun is a multi fuel burner so I have the option of buying there oil gun and burn chamber.
He thinks it would be smarter money spent to set it up with the oil, buy a new oil tank, get all new circulators and controls (basically like I was doing a brand new job without piping the heat lines), then if I were to try and tie into the existing boiler either in series or parallel. He says this thing is a wreck, everything is leaking, the circulators are ancient and its just a really old steel boiler that wont last much longer.
I can buy the oil option from AHS for around 2k. I dont think it needs to be factory installed, or at least I'm hoping it doesn't. Its just a bolt on the side unit and a new control wiring box. My guy didn't have a real #, but a ball park with parts and labor was around 5k. That would be a new 275 gal oil tank, a new 100 gal electric water heater, all new circ pumps and controls, new ss smokepipe, all piping and misc stuff plus his labor to tie into my existing heat loops plus break my main floor and basement from one zone into 3 zones.
Whats your opinion? Would I be spending about 4 or 5k if I was hooking into my old system, so I am really only 1 or 2k deeper.
This kinda took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting it to be so high. Being a contractor I usually tend to estimate everyone else's work cheaper and mine a little higher . So maybe I right where I should be.
What to do, what to do!
Any comments?
We are talking about the burner and he is looking it over. We are discussing the options of hooking it in series or parallel with the existing oil burner.
THEN we go into the basement and he sees my oil burner. There's silence, then he says "are you kidding me this is a piece of junk that is original to the house (1951)
you HAVE TO RIP THIS OUT. The wood gun is a multi fuel burner so I have the option of buying there oil gun and burn chamber.
He thinks it would be smarter money spent to set it up with the oil, buy a new oil tank, get all new circulators and controls (basically like I was doing a brand new job without piping the heat lines), then if I were to try and tie into the existing boiler either in series or parallel. He says this thing is a wreck, everything is leaking, the circulators are ancient and its just a really old steel boiler that wont last much longer.
I can buy the oil option from AHS for around 2k. I dont think it needs to be factory installed, or at least I'm hoping it doesn't. Its just a bolt on the side unit and a new control wiring box. My guy didn't have a real #, but a ball park with parts and labor was around 5k. That would be a new 275 gal oil tank, a new 100 gal electric water heater, all new circ pumps and controls, new ss smokepipe, all piping and misc stuff plus his labor to tie into my existing heat loops plus break my main floor and basement from one zone into 3 zones.
Whats your opinion? Would I be spending about 4 or 5k if I was hooking into my old system, so I am really only 1 or 2k deeper.
This kinda took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting it to be so high. Being a contractor I usually tend to estimate everyone else's work cheaper and mine a little higher . So maybe I right where I should be.
What to do, what to do!
Any comments?