Depending upon where you live, natural gas may not be cheaper even now. I
believe, in the NE, oil has historically been cheaper. You might consider a
small electric water heater for summer use only



"Joe" wrote in message
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On Jul 8, 6:13 am, wrote:
On Jul 8, 1:01 am, Joe wrote:

Is there a way I can get my water heater from tripping my oil furnace
to go on all night to keep the reserve tank hot? It's using up about
1.4 gallons a day this summer and all we use the hot water for is
taking showers -about 1 per day, and washing dishes - every 3 days. I
think it's using too much oil just to keep the water hot and I'd like
to be able to have it turn off from 11pm to 6am every day so I don't
waste so much oil while I sleep.

If I cannot do this myself who do I call to get it fixed. Will any
furnace specialist be able to fix it or do I need to contact someone
with experience with tankless systems?

Just for clarification my tankless system is not the square box on the
wall, it's a mini tank connected to the furnace about the size of tank
used to power your standard outdoor gas grill.

What brand? Model number? I'm sure an expert on boilers would
ask for more information. Oil fired boilers are rare here in the
South East. We burn dinosaur farts around here. We even have
companies that draw methane gas off of coal fields and land fills.
Out of curiosity, what is the cost of heating oil in your realm?

[8~{} Uncle Monster

Amtrol is the company and Extrol is the model and it says it's a
"Hydronic Heating System". Is that the same as a tankless system? I
paid $2.35/gallon last week to fill up my oil tank and I paid between
$1.99 and $2.29 a gallon during the winter from a discount wholesaler.
When I bought the house almost a year ago I was besieged with oil
companies trying to get me to lock in and I resisted and was happy I
did. The lock in price at the time was $2.62/gallon. Makes me wonder
if I was just lucky last year or should never lock in a price.

Right now it's costing me about $100 a month for hot water and I'm
wondering if it would be cheaper to have a conventional boiler
installed that is on all the time but I have no way of knowing if it
will use less energy. We do have a gas line on our street, my next
door neighbor has one. I know it would be expensive to convert but I'm
wondering if it would be cheaper in the long run.