A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 3, this post and two others to follow are accompaning posts to my second series of a challenge to write blog post series. The title to the series is A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers. These seriers are to help Home Buyers, Home Owners, and Real Estate Agents, to understand Oil Furnaces. Feel free to pull up a chair, and enjoy reading and learning.
A conversion type oil burner can be adapted to most forced warm-air furnaces. There are areas in the Country, that do not have natural gas available, like here in Vermont and New Hampshire, a oil burnering furnace is the next best heating source. The operating cost is midway between natural gas and electric residential heating.
An oil burner requires a combustion chamber to contain the flame. This chamber is fourteen inches to eighteen inches in diameter and can be made of stainless steel or insulating firebrick. The stainless steel chamber of the furnace, is sized to match the firing rate in gallons per hour. Some firebrick chambers are preformed to size, while some others are built on site to fit the available space in the home.
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 3, the information you'll need to purchase an oil burner can be found on the nameplate of the furnace. The nameplate has the BTU input and output, such as, 85,00 BTU. 100,000 BTU input. The BTU input determines the firing rate in gallons per hour. The standard domestic oil burner uses No. 2 fuel oil. which contains 136,000 BTU per gallon heat value. Most single homes of up to 1,800 square feet floor area would have a 150,000 BTU furnace firsed at a rate of 1.10 GPH, Smaller homes might need a firing rate of 0.70 or 0.85 GPH.
If your installing a new oil burner, you'll want to have the combustion chamber inspected and replace it, if needed. You'll want to measure the present chamber for correct size replacement. The furnace manufacturer's local dealer should have all of the necessary parts on hand, or they can order the items for you. In addition, you'll need furnace cement, bolts, 3/8 inch copper tubing, 3/8 inch flare fittings and flare nuts, a short piece of flexible metal conduit, necessary fittings, and wire connectors. A new stack safety relay or other safety control might be included with the new burner. The fan and limit controls can still be used, if they are in good operating condition.
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 3, you'll want to be sure to have it determined that the wiring to the furnace is on its own separate circuit. If the wiring of the furnace is in good condition, it can be reused. But do replace the flue pipe and vacuum, and brush the passages inside the furnace. You'll want to determine the nozzle firing rate and angle of spray, and whether it is a solid or hollow spray. Theres a designation stamped on the nozzle such as, 0.85-80-H, this means a 0.85 gallons per hour oil flow, 80 degree spray angle, and H, hollow or S, solid. The hollow spray is similar to a funnel, with the funnel wall the oil droplets. A solid spray is still the cone shape, but the cone is solid with oil droplets. The design of the replacement burner might be slightly changed, making minor adjustments necessary.
If you are not familiar with a oil burners operations and start up, it sure would be wise to have the burer started and adjusted by a service technician. There are necessary tests that must be made, for which specialized instruments are needed, and its worth the cost of the service call to have the start up done right.
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By the time we complete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!
God Bless America, The Land We Love
A home inspection from Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting, will give you peace of mind, so you and your family can enjoy the things you like to do!
Knowledge is Your Power For The Freedom of a Worry- Free Home!
When buying, renting a Home or Commercial Properties when Relocating in or to Sullivan County, New Hampshire, Windsor County, Vermont, or nearby Counties. When "Good Enough" Isn't, call Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting to schedule, Your New Hampshire and Vermont Home or Commercial Property Inspections!
Phone: 603-826-4207
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Links Home Buyers, Home Owners, and Real Esate Agents will want to visit:
Life Expectancy of Home Componts New Hampshire and Vermont
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 1
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 2
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Part 3
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 1
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 2
A Home's Oil Furnace The Series Windsor County Vermont Home Buyers Accompany Series Post 3
Safety Tip Posts:
When You and Your Family are Going on a Trip, Safety Tips
Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist
The following blog post link, is a four part series - there are links to each part on the posts:
Coal Firing Furnaces-New Hampshire and Vermont Series Part one
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Dale, Isn't it amazing the differences we see in different part of the country. I had never heard of an oil furnace before but it sounds like it is common in your area.
This brings up a question. Why don't you have natural gas available in Vermont and New Hampshire. I didn't know there were states that didn't have natural gas.
Great Blog-
I am very impressed as to your information.
Quite informative and of benefit to many-
As I also saw from the others who blogged, many do not know about oil burners- I have one and my other home in Vermont is electric heat-
Keep up the blogging
Bill www.merrellinstitute.com
Dale,
I see very few oil furnaces out here. Maybe one per 50 or 100 inspections.
Howdy there Marchel
Its always a pleasure to have you stop in to visit and to read and write a reply to a comment, from you on any of the posts. Here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friend
Oil fired furnace's are the main way, folks heat their home's up here. They also ues propane and electric furnaces.
From what I understand it has a lot to do with the kind of rock that is here. If it was available, there would also be the problem of laying the line for it. Mainly because of the ledges up in this area.
Hi Dale-I sure do like the visual presentation on your posts. Very COOL!!! Have a great weekend. :-)
Dale: I always find great information on your blog...just like this. We certainly have lots of older homes with oil furnaces, and first time buyers really don't want them.
Dale don't every say you can't teach and old inspector something new. I've never inspected an oil burning furnance. I think "yes' to having a professional come in and service he unit.
Howdy there Bill, Steven, Pat, Janice
First I'd like say to Bill and Seven, that I'm sorry for missing your coments last night.
Its a real pleasure to have each of you stop by to visit, and to read each of your comments and to write a reply back to them. Here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Bill - Thank you, Your right about there are some folks that have not used a oil burner. I also need to point out to you, here in the ActiveRain community its not at all thought highly of folks. That leave links in their comments, on others blog post. You may want to take the time to read AR's rules on this. Seen this is the first time you have commented on one of my posts. I'll not Delete your comment.
Steven - In this here you come along them at just about every Inspection.
Pat - Glad you like the photo presentation. thank you kindly.
Janice - thank you kindly. Its not just older homes here you'll find the home has a oil fired furnace in it. New homes also have them.
Howdy there Carl and Ceil
As always its a real pleasure to have y'all stop by to visit and leave a comment to read and reply back to, as y'all always do. On the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Us oldder Inspectors, sure do always get to learn about new things to do with our own areas. As will with other areas of the Country. Thats one of the things that I really like about being a Home Inspector.
The second part of the main series to do with oil furnaces. Is going to be about some of the Inspection of them.