Jadnashua
Retired Defense Industry Engineer xxx
A friend at work has an oil boiler and natural gas is available at the road. The cost to the utility company to get it to the house and meter is around $600, which seems reasonable. The gas company also will sell you a Burnham boiler at a good price in lieu of installing something else and then filing for a rebate. He lives in MA not all that far from NH. He also wanted to run the gas to the kitchen so he could switch to a gas stove. The location of the boiler is right under where the gas service would come in and the stove would be only about 10' away. The basement is unfinished and the joists are open. Not including removal of the old oil boiler or the oil storage tank, they were asking forr $6-7K for installation. Since the expensive items would be purchased already, and it is mostly connect the new to the old this seems excessive for the pipes, valves, and hookup to the old hot water heating system.
Maybe it's the area, but for maybe $1000 in parts and a couple of days for a team of (probably) two, I think that's high...Thoughts?
Maybe it's the area, but for maybe $1000 in parts and a couple of days for a team of (probably) two, I think that's high...Thoughts?