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August 4, 2009

Ballpark Boiler Pricing?

Hi,

I was wondering how much is it (ball park) to change an oil boiler into 3 small separate (It's a 3 family) gas boilers. the building is 2300sf and there is a 3 bedroom apt and two 1 bedrooms apts.

Thanks!

Posted by Williams at 10:33 AM | Comments (4)

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It really depends on a bunch of things

- Do you have chimney capacity for three boilers? If not, you'll have to remedy that with some combination of chimney liner/con mod vents or other.

- Are all the pipes in the house already divided in the basement, by apartment (I'm guessing no). If not, that has to be done, and that alone can be a budget killer.

- Do you have any asbestos?

- I don't have oil, so I know nothing about disposal of the oil tank, but I'm guessing that could be pricey.

- Are you going to separate out the hot water, too?

We got a price a while back to replace our existing gas boiler (1940 vintage) with three small, high efficiency boilers, and to do the pipe separation. The cost was $30K without the $3K in asbestos abatement. This did NOT include doing the pipe separate for the hot water system.

Good luck.

Posted by: dbarufaldi at August 4, 2009 12:58 PM

That price is on the low side of a decent "ballpark".

There are so many variables and ways to do it right and ways to do it so it just kind of works....

Posted by: Master Plvmber at August 4, 2009 3:47 PM

Thank you for the info. I have not thought about the piping thing and of course it should be addressed. I still didn't get the inspector in which will say how bad is the burner. basically I should hope that it is not in such a bad shape as I believe.

Btw- doe it include all the incentives? because from what I understand it should bring down the cost by 6-8k...

Posted by: Williams at August 4, 2009 4:29 PM

try going on the nyserda website for info on incentives and even contractors.
have you considered a green option such as radiant floor heating?point of service hot water heaters...there are many ways to go so if you are going to invest 30K might as well look at your options.

Posted by: argentina at August 4, 2009 8:09 PM

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