This is a huge 200 year old house with cast iron steam radiators. Unfortunately, changing over from steam heat is outside of my budget! As far as the ground goes, the whole town is built on sand! And I found out today that the gas company won’t be excavating now as we are into winter. Will have to wait till spring for gas service. I can get an oil boiler that has capability to be converted to gas though!
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 15, 2019, at 2:24 PM, Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Absolutely. However, we knew we probably wouldn’t be in the home long enough > to recoup the costs, so it didn’t make a lot of sense at the time. > > Also, I wonder if the soil composition where Dimitri is looking is an issue, > since New England has some pretty rocky soil... > > -D > >> On Nov 15, 2019, at 2:11 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> Yes - IIRC, we paid about $12,000 for our ground source heat pump. At that >> time, propane was very expensive (as was gasoline), so we broke even with >> our total energy costs being reduced by 50%. We broke even in 8 years. It's >> all gravy from here on --- >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:07 PM Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Looks like a ground source heat pump is the way to go. Unfortunately, they >>> don’t show the acquisition cost, which would balance it out a bit in >>> comparison. >>> >>> My former HVAC guy in Indiana swore by them. The heating and cooling costs >>> for my behemoth (4,000+ sf) house there would have been about (aboot?) >>> $100/month year round. Unfortunately, the acquisition cost for the retrofit >>> would have been around $11k-$12k. >>> >>> -D >>> >> >> -- >> OK Don >> >> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to >> pause and reflect." Mark Twain >> >> "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who >> learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence >> for themselves." >> >> WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* >> 2013 F150, 18 mpg >> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg >> 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
