Re: Love that propane

Posted by 2002sliverado on January 24, 2018 at 10:54:56 from (216.16.75.34):

In Reply to: Love that propane posted by Keith Molden on January 24, 2018 at 07:00:09:

We had fuel oil hot water radiant heat in my parents' home on the farm. We had 2-265 gallon barrels in the basement for holding and storing the product. The trouble in the most recent years and the last two fuel oil fired furnaces, is there seems to be nobody around who knows how to work on these furnaces, and as they shrunk in size to gain a higher thermal efficiency out of them, they became much more troublesome, as the heat exchanger would build up with soot in the middle of the heating season. Propane is what most people have gone with in our area, or if they are within a short distance of a natural gas line, they have gone to that, too. My parents switched over to natural gas a few years ago, and have been satisfied with the common central "boiler" for the radiant heat, and demand based water heater for domestic hot water. It is a high efficiency unit. As one other mentioned, the maintenance/connection fees are a bit expensive, in spite of my parents paying the cost for the 3/8 mile of gas line from the main to the house. I have had 2 propane forced air furnaces and went overkill on the LP tank, as I wanted to have a sizable reserve so I could buy the amount I wanted, when I wanted, and from whomever I wanted. I was able to buy more in "cheap years" and get through during the "expensive years" as that tank would take care of my needs for just about the entire heating season in our old house. Nine years ago I switched over to a ground source heat pump, since my furnace was 20 years old and my central A/C unit was nearly 40 years old. It was estimated the unit would pay for the cost difference between it and a conventional LP furnace and A/C cooling system in just under 7 years. This "cost differential" was based upon my receiving the federal tax credit on the heat pump. As near as I can figure, we managed to achieve that. I am quite satisfied with the unit we have and its performance, even when we had a very cold winter a few years ago and the frost went down so deep, water mains were freezing and breaking. We also have a lower rate for the heat pump, which is metered separately and our utility company can cycle the unit on and off during peak demand times. As far as what it has been like in the house, you wouldn't know it if it had been cycled or not. The reduced rate is about half of what our normal base rate is for electricity. The one thing I do want to do is install a propane fired fireplace for extra heat in a basement family room, and for back up in the event of a serious and long term power outage, which has never been the case, but I would rather be prepared.

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