How I Deal With $5 Gallon Heating Oil...

[boat6868]

3 cents per kwh is cheap compared to here.

[inuyasha4409]

he should put a bigger memory card in his camcorder

[itscool1968]

is this feed off one of youre rental units?

if so if the tennant pays for the power and you dont ajust the rent for the furances draw its illegal you cannot draw heat power off a apt with out compensation if the tennant finds this out you can be sued.

i know i manage apts for a liveing .

and turned my own land lord in for this very thing

[CORVAIRWILD]

As a matter of fact, I showed the tenant around the basement yesterday, and explained the whole shebang to her. Her electric bill is $60 over what it was before the electric boiler was installed. $120 now. And showed her how to set her tstat to save electric. So THERE!

And what am I drawing off? And your spelling and punctuation... Sheesh...

[itscool1968]

sorry if i sounded harsh but i hate when landlords don't do this and hope the tennant dosen't notice it.

as long as you copensate her for the add draw for the boiler it's legal to do what you did.

you could allways offer to pay for her power bill and ajust it in you're rent.

nice job other wize.

[CORVAIRWILD]

They're bitching! Building inspector was just by...

[itscool1968]

i tried to tell you its illegal and sooner or later they will get ya.

how ever you can also write in youre lease for that apt that you will reduce the rent to cover the power costs.

but i would put in youre own panel and just spread youre costs over the rents for all of the units.

[CORVAIRWILD]

You musta' misunderstood. Tenant is responsible. Oil or electric.

[itscool1968]

correct but if youre boiler is running off her utiltites in the us whare iam from its illegal and you can get sued for it.

if i was youre tennant showing me would just enice me to put code enforcement on youre butt.

youre a land lord pay for youre own boiler .

[CORVAIRWILD]

I'm the landlord, I don't live there. The tenant that's getting the heat is paying for what they use.

[itscool1968]

ok well whare iam from power is the most costly way to heat.

why not change to natrual gas ?

[CORVAIRWILD]

Electricity is very cheap here, 3 cents KWHr. Natural gas is a block away, used to be avail, but not since 1960. They just finished cleaning up the waste site from dumping sludge last week, after oozing into the river for 45+ years...

[chatrkat]

nice job there Dr!

[CORVAIRWILD]

Thx... Had ta torch the old one I installed last week

[AreWildZ28]

Utica, NY been there many times! Yrs. ago I wanted to go thru the Brewery and it was CLOSED....that day! That snowblower looks like something we have here!

[Righty736]

The brewery had a fire over the summer

[AreWildZ28]

I was talking about many yrs. ago...I did here about that fire...that was too bad about that fire....

[uxwbill]

Looks like a nice installation, everything so neat and clean. It looks like the switching is done with relays, but I think the relays look a bit light to be switching 5,000 watts every 30 seconds.

Are you going to keep the old oil burning boiler in case prices swing the other way?

[CORVAIRWILD]

I lied, the elements are 3000 watts, and the relays better be guaranteed!

Oil stays, I'll crank it up every few months...

[NHranchOrelaxO]

After delivering #2 fuel oil fer 20 years, its nice to see people converting to elctric! 

Good luck with the new system, i'm sure it will be more efficient! (like 100%)????

[CORVAIRWILD]

Works well, so far...

[golteez]

I think that the unit has or should have an outdoor wire sensor. So when it drops bellow a preset temp outside, the other elements kick in...too warm your buns..

[CORVAIRWILD]

Sensor? We don't need no stinkin' SENSORS!!!

[mifan93]

utica MI??????? are u licensed electrition???

[CORVAIRWILD]

Licence? What's that???

[mifan93]

SHHHHhhhhh....dont tell!!!lol

[84400]

neat

[CORVAIRWILD]

Thx...

[retardobull]

how old is the boiler

[CORVAIRWILD]

I got it for free in 1996, it was 25ish years old then. Works OK...

[retardobull]

wow and it still works

[Righty736]

This is the electric heat you were talking about a few weeks ago?

Are you going to be getting rid of the oil tanks

[CORVAIRWILD]

Nope, keep all my (egg) baskets...

[PwahTube]

Nice idea

Noticed

the "Junk Edition"

haha

[fupa181]

Great idea for the conversion looks like it was working pretty good as well