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August 13, 2008
Replacing Oil Tank
What is involved in removing an Oil Tank and replacing it with Gas.
Time, Cost, etc.
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I had this done some years back and the whole process is very messy. They came in and drained the oil from the tank, then they had to cut it up into 4 pieces to get it out of the basement. After that, they completely drained the water from the system, disassembled the oil burner and took it out of the basement. Then they had to turn off the gas where it came into the house, run a sufficiently large enough gas pipe to the boiler location and install the new gas boiler.
It took about five hours. I am not sure what the cost was, 1.5-2k comes to mind but I can't recall for sure. Also, I got the boiler for free from keyspan as an inducement to switch. I am not sure if this program still exists though.
Posted by: SJ at August 13, 2008 11:26 AM
You're talking about a complete conversion from a oil system to a gas heating system right?
Just yesterday, I was quoted 5500-7000. If you need a hot water boiler too that would be an extra 700. This includes carting away the gas tank too and a discounted boiler from Keyspan. It doesn't include asbestos removal if you have that stuff on your pipes which you need to have taken care of before anyone will work on your heating system.
Posted by: helppls at August 13, 2008 11:58 AM
Oh and the inspector had mentioned something about if your current gas line is not big enough (or something,) they need to dig out to the street to replace that. But that would be an extra 10k. Maybe someone here can explain this better as I was overwhelmed with info during the inspection.
Posted by: helppls at August 13, 2008 12:04 PM
I am pretty sure that the gas company is responsible for the gas into the house(and so is the electric company for electricity). the only one who you are responsible for getting into your house is the water company...once its in your house with all of them its your responsibility.
We had 4 people working here 8 hours each just to put in the gas water heater. The boiler was disassembled but hasn't been removed yet.
Posted by: smeyer418 at August 13, 2008 3:23 PM
thanks
Posted by: bayridgegirl at August 14, 2008 10:09 AM
That quote for $5500 - $7000 sounds too good to be true. I have received quotes for $20,000 plus to convert a single oil fired steam system to individual (2) gas boilers (circulating hot water system)with hot water heaters. I have a two family that I would like to have the tenants now become repsonsible for their own heat and hot water.
Posted by: wingo947 at August 14, 2008 4:59 PM
Its more expensive to reconfigure a house into two separate systems. The entire house needs to be re plumbed with piping so the heating systems are truly separate. Just replacing the existing boiler and hot water is much less work then setting up two wholly separate systems(the pipes to the radiators need to be replaced to separate them as well as the hot water into the apartments which currently run on one common system, the difference can be more than $10,000 so the lower quote just to replace the boiler and hot water is not that out of line.
Posted by: smeyer418 at August 15, 2008 7:02 AM
The NY State Public service commission confirms its the Utities responsibility to change the service
Your local gas utility (Con Ed?) is responsible to bring the gas all the way up to and including the gas meter at the building. Anything past the meter is the responsibility of the owner.
Posted by: smeyer418 at August 15, 2008 9:19 AM
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