Comments on: Oil Boiler Maintenance Reminders

By: Furnaces

Furnaces — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:36:10 +0000

nice post, i think this can be a good way to handle used oil, it can make a difference in heating costs and there isn’t much else to do with it.

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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:41:03 +0000

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By: Kevin Tellmore

Kevin Tellmore — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:46:40 +0000

Can you tell us roughly how much these things cost? How much does the oil burner plus hook up plus installation?? I think I may be able to buy a used one in my area but I don’t have any idea how to hook it up to the rest of my house and switch from natural gas. Thanks, great site

By: Newyork204

Newyork204 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:49:59 +0000

Tom,

Thanks. They are almost the same in principal. They both run on used waste oil. They each have a small nozzle in which oil is sprayed out and then ignited or burned. The difference is what happens after this. With an oil furnace that heat is transferred to tubes in which air passes by those tubes and is than heated. The hot air coming out of the furnace than heats the room. With a boiler that heat still goes through tubes but those tubes transfer heat to water which is then pumped through the the walls of a building emitting heat through them as they travel. The water then goes back to the boiler to be re-heated and process starts all over again. The second one, boilers, are known to be a lot more efficient and better because that heat does not dry up the air and while it takes a while for a room to heat up it can stay heated over a longer period of time after the boiler is turned off

By: Tom K

Tom K — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:43:23 +0000

Thats for the info. Good posts. Can you tell me what the big difference is between an oil furnace and an oil boiler??? I am kind of confused as to how they work?