I had my last visit hopefully forever from my oil company! Yippie! It was actually an apropos ending to the whole oil experience. I had tried to donate the oil to Joe for Oil (A Massachusetts oil-heat assistance program) but they said they didn't have any mechanism for that. So, for the value of the oil in my tank, my old oil company said they'd remove it. Isn't that a generous gesture from them? 2 guys doing less than 30 minutes of work with a 20-gallon-per minute pump. You do the math. Anyway, they pumped the oil from my two tanks through about 100 ft of hose up in 12 ft in to the top of one of their oil delivery trucks. Well, what happens when you turn off a pump that has hose with 100 ft of oil in front of it in it rising up 12 feet in the air?
Oil is dirty and smelly. While some of the oil company maintenance people were excellent, not all of them are. We went through 2 or 3 oil companies in 9 years. And whenever we had someone show up to annually service the system who just wanted to get to his next job, we ended up with no heat, or a clogged nozzle, or some other problem. Usually in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend with unusually cold weather. Now my old system was 20 years old and rather complicated with the 3 furnaces (2 for air, one for water) and a cold external chimney so it was probably not the easiest system to maintain. Modern systems do not work this way; I think mostly people with oil have boilers with circulating hot water coils to heat air or water in holding tanks.
The new GSHP system is expected to cost a lot less to run and emit a lot less carbon dioxide. I am looking forward to the winter so we can obtain data on that fact.
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