oil to LP conversion ?

Pinball

I have a friend/customer who has just put up a brand new modular/mobile home on a full poured foundation. The slab in the basement is radiant powered by an LP mod-con. boiler. The house is heated with a oil fired "Miller" trailer furnace.
Since the price of kero. will be over $3.00 this winter,and the LP boiler will run @ over 92%. Will it be easier/cost effecient to replace the current Beckett gun with a gas gun or do they make such a thing as a counterflow air-handler that will retrofit into a trailer, whereby I can heat the whole place with one unit, the boiler and the right controls/piping? The house will already have a buried LP tank on the property and the thought of dealing with a core drill to pipe-out an oil tank through 10" thick concrete is not very apealling. not to mention the space taken up by the inside iol tank.

Thanks

Al

Pinball

Converting a trailer to LP

I have a friend/customer who has just put up a brand new modular/mobile home on a full poured foundation. The slab in the basement is radiant powered by an LP mod-con. boiler. The house is heated with a oil fired "Miller" trailer furnace.
Since the price of kero. will be over $3.00 this winter,and the LP boiler will run @ over 92%. Will it be easier/cost effecient to replace the current Beckett gun with a gas gun or do they make such a thing as a counterflow air-handler that will retrofit into a trailer, whereby I can heat the whole place with one unit, the boiler and the right controls/piping?

Thanks

Al

Pinball

Converting a trailer to LP

I have a friend/customer who has just put up a brand new modular/mobile home on a full poured foundation. The slab in the basement is radiant powered by an LP mod-con. boiler. The house is heated with a oil fired "Miller" trailer furnace.
Since the price of kero. will be over $3.00 this winter,and the LP boiler will run @ over 92%. Will it be easier/cost effecient to replace the current Beckett gun with a gas gun or do they make such a thing as a counterflow air-handler that will retrofit into a trailer, whereby I can heat the whole place with one unit, the boiler and the right controls/piping? The house will already have a buried LP tank on the property and the thought of dealing with a core drill to pipe-out an oil tank through 10" thick concrete is not very apealling. not to mention the space taken up by the inside oil tank.

Thanks

Al

Leo

Oil Tanks

Once the oil tank is in the basement kero is no longer needed. Is it too late to use oil for the boiler? How does the cost of #2 compare to LP in your area, it is traditionally cheaper for oil here. Yes the Miller should have specs right on it for LP and they are usually a dual fuel furnace.

Leo

Steamhead (in transit)

I agree- compare the cost per BTU

LP is usually way more expensive per BTU than oil, and is not as safe to use besides. The difference in efficiency may not be enough to make up the price difference. And with low-sulfur oil coming out, we'll soon see higher-efficiency oil-fired boilers.

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Joe Brix

Any thought to hydroair?

Maybe get a hot water coil for the furnace and just use the blower. Maybe keep the oil burner as a backup.

Pinball

Right now LP is cheaper than oil, for the first time in history!And since a Trinty Mod-con with outdoor reset is already hanging on the wall, we thought it might be advantagous to use it for the whole house via a air handler where the miller now stands. or put in a LP gun

Steamhead (in transit)

Pinball, did you compare

just the price per gallon? A gallon of propane contains 91,000 BTU, but a gallon of #2 oil has 140,000 BTU. So assuming the price is the same per gallon, oil is cheaper per BTU.

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