Patrick Campbell

Does anyone use waste oil?

I am trying to figure out how I could integrate this into my home. There's a few things I'm thinking about. We have steam radiators where the piping is still run but it was disconnected when the previous owner installed A/C, so the heat is now forced hot air. If we could hook these back up using a waste oil heater that would be great.

Another option, maybe simpler(?) would be to just heat the basement somehow using waste oil (not sure how?) and allow the heat of the basement to rise to the first floor. At this time I do not think there is any insulation between the basement and first floor.

Any ideas?

schv

House - Anthracite coal stove backing up baseboard electric
Shop - forced air oil.

And my "carbon footprint" is still roughly only .1% of Al Gore's.

surfram

Can you give some details on how that thing works? Cost?

Patrick Campbell

anyone used something like:
http://www.toyotomiusa.com/products/...aters/L-30.php ?

Winr

Electric base board, Buffalo/Rochester area, NY

CountryBoy72

Natural Gas Forced Air Furnace, Gas Fire Place. Pellet Stove and an Air Tight wood stove. Don't Use the gas fireplace, furnace only to take the chill first thing in the morning. Wood is free=free heat and pellets are lazy mans woodstove. Vancouver Island, BC Canada

RAF

I have radiators in the house. The thermostat controls the circulator at the boiler. The 1" Pex piping runs under ground (insulated). The boiler holds almost 400 gals. Has its own damper that keeps the water temp in the boiler at 170 F + or -. My house has alot of heat loss and with that I only load it once every 24hrs. Right now with temps we have been having I'm burning the pine I have (6 - 8" logs)

Price: It was $6,100 for the unit and about $1,200 material for the install (did it myself). This was installed 3 yrs. ago so I'm sure those prices are higher now.

Check out the web site. http://http://centralboiler.com/

VTblacksmoke

house is propane and the shop has a wood stove that gets the "ocational" 5 gallon pail of waste oil thrown in it

AkTallPaul

Check post #30 in this thread...Don't take just my word tho....call any number in the 907 area code.

s cesnick

I have a 3,500 sq ft. log home at 3,000ft on top of a VERY cold and windy mountain. I also heat my 30x40 garage. I use an AHS Multifuel cood/wood/oil backup boiler. I burn 95% coal. I can get burn times up to 24 hours and my total heat bill last year ( for the coal ) was $250.

sawmill

using electric getting a wood burner set up in the basement to save money no the electric bill .but I have been looking at those waste oil burners really hard because I have access to alot of oil.

strokerace

Nothing but wood for me, takes a little work and time but its alot cheaper than anything else. I have a homemade outdoor wood furnace and love it, keeps the mess out of the house and the woods right there easy to get to. I live in southern indiana so there are trees standing everywhere and firewood is plentiful.

RoryTek

About a ton a season which is about $200 have propane central heater for backup but never use it. We rarely get down to single digits in the winter time.
Most nights in the low 30's to mid 20's

LUKE-MM-PULLER

After a $275 heat bill last Feb I told the gas company to shut it off been heatinf the house with space heaters since. And now they owe me money because we stayed under budget.

Patrick Campbell

Thanks. I missed that entirely. I had never heard of such a thing but someone on another forum who lives up in Canada suggested it. It looks really interesting. This L-30 is .10 GPH at full blast!

How does the heat travel with these things?

I am trying to imagine what would be the ideal setup... either having this in the basement, and allowing the heat to rise and also heating the basement at the same time, or putting it on the first floor (where my wife is, and she is who I want to be warm !)