How Much Oil Are We Saving?
- PC 12-47E
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- Location: Mid Coast, Maine
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1700 gallons of oil used last winter
200 gallons of oil will be used this winter
1500 gallons saved plus
24,425
25,925 gallons saved by Coal Forum. At $2.50 a gallon that is $64,812.50 not going to BIG OIL
200 gallons of oil will be used this winter
1500 gallons saved plus
24,425
25,925 gallons saved by Coal Forum. At $2.50 a gallon that is $64,812.50 not going to BIG OIL
Last edited by PC 12-47E on Mon. Dec. 08, 2008 3:15 pm, edited 3 times in total.
My propane usage before coal for a 12 month period was approx. 2500 gallons. Last year (12 month period) I used 8 tons of coal and 150 gallons of propane (for cooking mostly) and I kept the house 10 degrees warmer. Before you freakout on me for wasting energy, with propane I kept the house in the 50's, now I keep it in the mid 60's except the living room which is directly above the boiler which stays at about 72. I could have every room in the house at 75 degrees for probably 2 ton a year more but it's plenty comfortable. It's not technically "oil" so I didn't add to the total, sorry.
- CoalHeat
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- Location: Stillwater, New Jersey
- Stoker Coal Boiler: 1959 EFM 350
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- Baseburners & Antiques: Sears Signal Oak 15 & Andes Kitchen Range
- Coal Size/Type: Rice and Chestnut
- Other Heating: Fisher Fireplace Insert
Can't help here, I never heated this place solely with oil. It was wood with oil back-up for 16 years, used as little oil as possible. Now it's 100% coal, DHW included. There was always a loud discussion when that t-stat was pushed up and the oil burner fired, now the oil tank is empty, problem solved (now the t-stat is lonely and dejected-I push the lever up and down every so often to make it feel wanted).
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- Location: Birdsboro PA.
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 350
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- Coal Size/Type: rice
we never burned oil in this building, but when my friend that owns it bought it in 2004 there were oil furnaces here
there was two oil furnaces.........a 500,000 BTU forced air furnace for the 40x80 cinder block shop and the 20x40 cinder block building for the office and the bathrooms (my place now) and there was a 90,000 BTU oil furnace for the offices which is a 40x50 pole barn.........the shop was built in 1962 as an auction house and the pole barn was added in the 70's........the building got sold and the pole barn was converted to an office for a fuel oil dealer.....the orig owner told us he burned 1000 gallons of oil a month in really cold weather...........the owner converted the offices into a 3 bedroom house.........we heat the house with a kenmore coal stove.......we heat the garage with the efm af150 and a warm morning (right next to the garage door I fire it up if I gotta open the door alot, and I heat my apartment with an alaska kodiak stoker...........we do have a 150,000 BTU torpedo heater that burns fuel oil kero or diesel.......to keep the shop from freezing.......10 gallons a day...........plus 10 gallons a day to run 4 kerosene heaters in the other spaces.............when it gets bitter out I might burn 250 pounds a day in 4 coal stoves............when we started burning coal in 2005, on a really bitter day we could burn 500 pounds......so thanks to you guys for your help we are really starting to save on coal
there was two oil furnaces.........a 500,000 BTU forced air furnace for the 40x80 cinder block shop and the 20x40 cinder block building for the office and the bathrooms (my place now) and there was a 90,000 BTU oil furnace for the offices which is a 40x50 pole barn.........the shop was built in 1962 as an auction house and the pole barn was added in the 70's........the building got sold and the pole barn was converted to an office for a fuel oil dealer.....the orig owner told us he burned 1000 gallons of oil a month in really cold weather...........the owner converted the offices into a 3 bedroom house.........we heat the house with a kenmore coal stove.......we heat the garage with the efm af150 and a warm morning (right next to the garage door I fire it up if I gotta open the door alot, and I heat my apartment with an alaska kodiak stoker...........we do have a 150,000 BTU torpedo heater that burns fuel oil kero or diesel.......to keep the shop from freezing.......10 gallons a day...........plus 10 gallons a day to run 4 kerosene heaters in the other spaces.............when it gets bitter out I might burn 250 pounds a day in 4 coal stoves............when we started burning coal in 2005, on a really bitter day we could burn 500 pounds......so thanks to you guys for your help we are really starting to save on coal
- Pap
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- Location: Middletown, Pa
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- Other Heating: Oil
I was using about 700 gallons per year. Now I have been using about 50 gallons. 25 in the fall before I light the stove and about the same in spring.
saved about 2600 gal in four years.
Pap
saved about 2600 gal in four years.
Pap
- coalmeister
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To get this back on course, I think we are here
25,925
800 kootch
1200 Motorbike
650 Pap
2500 lincolnmania (estimate)
=31,075 annual gallons
25,925
800 kootch
1200 Motorbike
650 Pap
2500 lincolnmania (estimate)
=31,075 annual gallons
- SMITTY
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- Coal Size/Type: Rice / Blaschak anthracite
- Other Heating: Oil fired Burnham boiler
The Mass. state gov't. can supply you with a union guy @ $46/hr. to do that for you -- paid for by us taxpayers!Wood'nCoal wrote:(now the t-stat is lonely and dejected-I push the lever up and down every so often to make it feel wanted)
I burned 960 gallons to freeze my ass off @ 58* -- & that was in the WARM part of the house! Other rooms used to hit the upper 40's!
I may burn 150 this year , soooooo.......... 960 - 150 = 810
31,075 + 810 =
31,885