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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Thanks Dana, Actually, maybe I was really unfair to the contractor who visited me, since when he looked over my existing heating system, he threw in so many options at me, which I suspected was just suggestions, with ball park figures and with no mention of specific named products. The...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    The first tank I had was an in ground tank. It never leaked, but like the lady you mentioned, I did not wish to fool around with it. The professionals came and did do a good job in getting it out of there. Actually they got it out in less than hour and a couple strong men just carried it out...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Thanks Jim, I sort of figured that was the case. I finally got through to a couple of suppliers of dual fiberglass oil tanks. Other than a kid with a 22, they should do their job long after I am gone. None gave me a price, not even a list price. Got the usual are you a licensed heating...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Sounds like good advice to me, but do not bet on us not using the air conditioner. Two long power outages lasting a week or more, both occurring because of Irene and Sandy, convinced us that while summer time outages are more of pain to deal with, rather than an emergency, we do rely heavily on...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Being stuck inside, as of right now a blizzard is just finishing up most if its nasty stuff and is starting to taper down, I have read very carefully all the previous posts. My old wood furnace has been keeping us quite comfortable, even though it was/is blizzard like conditions outside. The...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    I am really getting at odds with what I would like to have and what I can afford. As Dana seemed to guess, my home is probably not all that bad for a 35 year old home as it was originally designed for electric (resistance) heating, which was never installed since at that time, oil could deliver...
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    What make/model box is this? Is it even a main or is it a sub panel?

    Thanks guys for the explanations, as everything said makes good sense to me; I only responded out of curiosity. What may be a very stupid question, is I just could not even imagine how this could have happened in the first place? Where I live, a neighbor saw me digging a small hole with shovel...
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    What make/model box is this? Is it even a main or is it a sub panel?

    I am definitely not an electrical contractor, so my opinion is not worth beans, but I do not understand how you would not have a main breaker. Even for an old house, at some point way back when, a building inspector would have had to come in to inspect the electrical wiring. What the code was...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Tom, there is something about your writings and honesty that makes me wish we were neighbors. I did not understand the installation would run on the strong side of 20 grand as the contractor I spoke to quote a figure of around 8 grand, but I am sure we are comparing apples and oranges. He did...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Thanks again Dana, although I was up all last night playing around with the Webtool calculator. I still do not have its proper use down pat. One thing about being an engineer trying to understand an area quite removed from his field of expertise is I am quickly learning HVAC is far more...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Not a question for Dana, as I have already been picking his brain far greater than is polite, to say the least. This post is for readers like me, who never even heard the term HRV. I Google it and got 10,000,000 hits. There are ample descriptions as to how they work, why you should have them...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    I cannot remember if there is poly or not on the inner side of the rafters. If there is a problem it has not surfaced. However, I do not know what I should be looking for? The overhang extends from 4' to 2' since it is tapered. Unless there has been say a failed pex fitting, there never...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Question for anyone! Question for anyone! I understand the need to have a well sealed home as that will ease and improve the heating and cooling loads. In addition, there could be a host of other problems that are either alleviated or introduced depending on how it is done. I am not...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Dana, My house is a modified A frame, modified simply means the pitch of the roof is a 45 degree slope, and never drops to anywhere near ground level. You are right in how it was constructed with 6" studs for the exterior wall and filled with insulation of R19. Being an A frame with no attic...
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    Help with choice of Heating/ Cooling equipment for Southern New England

    Thanks Jim and Dana, You have me feeling almost embarrassed that you would have spent so much time on a complete stranger in answering so many questions and in such detail. While I do have a strong technical background, I tend to be a slow but exacting reader when adsorbing technical...
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