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Hi, we recently purchased a two story brick townhouse. The boiler is 50 years old. It works fine heating the house and hot water, but we were somewhat stunned to burn through $700 of fuel in just 5 weeks. Granted this is the height of the heating season, but we keep the heat down near 60 degrees most of the time. A guy from the fuel company said that the boiler is just very inefficient because its so old. Here’s the question: is this just how expensive it is to heat an old house during the winter, or should we convert to gas to save on our bills? That is, what are folks out there with comparably sized (18×50) attached brick houses spending on gas per month these days to heat their homes and provide hot water? Would love to know. Thanks a lot.