$ 592.

josevolution

that is how much i just payed for 200gl of oil for my house ,im sick of this i might have to convert to heating my house with wood burning stove anybody out there have one of those stoves this sucks .....

Chrissyb

I feel your pain, I paid $434.85 for 150 gallons at Thanksgiving. I don't have a woodburner.. we have been using the electric portables.

mammasan

josevolution wrote:

that is how much i just payed for 200gl of oil for my house ,im sick of this i might have to convert to heating my house with wood burning stove anybody out there have one of those stoves this sucks .....

DAMN!!! That's a fucking lot of money. My girlfriend's mom has one at her place out in Pennsylvania. It worked real well when we went out there for a weekend. If you have a big place you would probably need a few of them around the house.

josevolution

Chrissyb wrote:

I feel your pain, I paid $434.85 for 150 gallons at Thanksgiving. I don't have a woodburner.. we have been using the electric portables.

will see if i have to revert to that method just heat the rooms with electric heaters and save on running the burner ....

josevolution

mammasan wrote:

DAMN!!! That's a fucking lot of money. My girlfriend's mom has one at her place out in Pennsylvania. It worked real well when we went out there for a weekend. If you have a big place you would probably need a few of them around the house.

when i first moved into my house 13yrs ago that amount would of been enough for the whole winter and some now i'm lucky if i get to march ....

mammasan

josevolution wrote:

when i first moved into my house 13yrs ago that amount would of been enough for the whole winter and some now i'm lucky if i get to march ....

My old house was oil heating as well and I remember it being about $350 for 200 gls. That would last us about 2 months, 3 if we where lucky. It's just freaking crazy now the cost to heat a home. Even gas heating is getting ridiculously expensive.

decides2dream

josevolution wrote:

that is how much i just payed for 200gl of oil for my house ,im sick of this i might have to convert to heating my house with wood burning stove anybody out there have one of those stoves this sucks .....

that actually isn't so bad for our area. we used to have oil, then we converted to gas. don't really knw if it;s any cheaper...i just think it's cleaner/more efficient/easier.


i honestly don't think you'd save so much with a woodburning stove. i definitely don't think it's so great for indoor air quality.....your house would have cold spots...and wood can be prohibitively expensive unless you go and chop down your own trees. i also don't think electirc heaters 'save' you any $$$ either...it's more like borrowing from peter to pay paul...same difference.


so just suck it up and monitor your thermostat...and sure, wear layers.

mammasan

decides2dream wrote:

that actually isn't so bad for our area. we used to have oil, then we converted to gas. don't really knw if it;s any cheaper...i just think it's cleaner/more efficient/easier.


i honestly don't think you'd save so much with a woodburning stove. i definitely don't think it's so great for indoor air quality.....your house would have cold spots...and wood can be prohibitively expensive unless you go and chop down your own trees. i also don't think electirc heaters 'save' you any $$$ either...it's more like borrowing from peter to pay paul...same difference.


so just suck it up and monitor your thermostat...and sure, wear layers.

I don't think gas is that much cheaper. It is for me because i lower the heat before I leave the apartment. Back when i had the house and my ex and I where still together the heat stayed on during the day because the kids where home and we kept it up overnight because of the kids. Now I only put it up when I have my kids so for the most part my heating coists have gone way down.

decides2dream

mammasan wrote:

I don't think gas is that much cheaper. It is for me because i lower the heat before I leave the apartment. Back when i had the house and my ex and I where still together the heat stayed on during the day because the kids where home and we kept it up overnight because of the kids. Now I only put it up when I have my kids so for the most part my heating coists have gone way down.

agreed.
we too turn our thermostat down before we leave for work. however, we always did that even when we had oil. i just prefer gas for the points listed above. bottomline, heating costs are expensive...and we all live in an area with quite a high cost of living. all part of the price we pay to live where we live.


and ALL of this, heating/fuel/etc....not going to get better until we develop afforable/doable alternatives.

mammasan

decides2dream wrote:

agreed.
we too turn our thermostat down before we leave for work. however, we always did that even when we had oil. i just prefer gas for the points listed above. bottomline, heating costs are expensive...and we all live in an area with quite a high cost of living. all part of the price we pay to live where we live.


and ALL of this, heating/fuel/etc....not going to get better until we develop afforable/doable alternatives.

You would think though that fuel for home heating would be a little cheaper considering the cost of gas in our area is one of the lowest in the country.

josevolution

decides2dream wrote:

that actually isn't so bad for our area. we used to have oil, then we converted to gas. don't really knw if it;s any cheaper...i just think it's cleaner/more efficient/easier.


i honestly don't think you'd save so much with a woodburning stove. i definitely don't think it's so great for indoor air quality.....your house would have cold spots...and wood can be prohibitively expensive unless you go and chop down your own trees. i also don't think electirc heaters 'save' you any $$$ either...it's more like borrowing from peter to pay paul...same difference.


so just suck it up and monitor your thermostat...and sure, wear layers.

will see my house is ranch 1floor easy to heat with a stove, and layers yeah that does help and keep the house at what 68 degrees it might help i guess ,my son won't ever wear layers he walks around the house in hi's boxers ha ha ha he pays no attention to being cold at all daughter is different she likes to dress a bit more for when in the house ha kids ...

decides2dream

josevolution wrote:

will see my house is ranch 1floor easy to heat with a stove, and layers yeah that does help and keep the house at what 68 degrees it might help i guess ,my son won't ever wear layers he walks around the house in hi's boxers ha ha ha he pays no attention to being cold at all daughter is different she likes to dress a bit more for when in the house ha kids ...

i'm in a ranch too. however, even when we have a fire in the fireplace in the LR...the rest of the house gets very cold b/c the thermostat is in the LR and yea, only the fire warms the room it's in. i know a few people who have woodstoves and while it is quite warming, it really doesn't do too good a job at warming multiple rooms, etc. that's all.

even flow?

decides2dream wrote:

that actually isn't so bad for our area. we used to have oil, then we converted to gas. don't really knw if it;s any cheaper...i just think it's cleaner/more efficient/easier.


i honestly don't think you'd save so much with a woodburning stove. i definitely don't think it's so great for indoor air quality.....your house would have cold spots...and wood can be prohibitively expensive unless you go and chop down your own trees. i also don't think electirc heaters 'save' you any $$$ either...it's more like borrowing from peter to pay paul...same difference.


so just suck it up and monitor your thermostat...and sure, wear layers.

A wood stove would cut the costs back huge. If you lit it up when you got home from work, two logs could heat most of the upstairs for at least six hours. Which in turn would keep your gas/oil heat from having to come on until the upstairs cooled off. And if you don't mind sleeping in a cool environment, you could set your heat so it wouldn't come on until 20 minutes before you got up.

We have a fireplace in our basement and I sure wish it were upstairs on the main floor or we had a wood stove.

Get_Right

How long does that last?
I have gas heat and my bill last month was over $300.

Jan and Feb run $400 if its cold

decides2dream

even flow? wrote:

A wood stove would cut the costs back huge. If you lit it up when you got home from work, two logs could heat most of the upstairs for at least six hours. Which in turn would keep your gas/oil heat from having to come on until the upstairs cooled off. And if you don't mind sleeping in a cool environment, you could set your heat so it wouldn't come on until 20 minutes before you got up.

We have a fireplace in our basement and I sure wish it were upstairs on the main floor or we had a wood stove.

as i said, i disagree. our fireplace warms our LR and nothing else. i actually like it a bit cooler when i sleep but yea, not THAt cool. anyhoo...i'll agree to disagree. i know a few people who have woodstoves and swear by em, but for a fairly consistent indoor temp, i just don't think woodstoves/fireplaces cut it. you'd need a few. but hey, just my little ole personal opinion. and especially woodstoves, i find them quite unattractive and take up precious living space. to each his/her own!

RolandTD20Kdrummer

josevolution wrote:

that is how much i just payed for 200gl of oil for my house ,im sick of this i might have to convert to heating my house with wood burning stove anybody out there have one of those stoves this sucks .....

Ouch. How long does that last you?

Urban Hiker

We live in apartment and pay $65 a month towards garbage, water, sewer and STEAM HEAT.

Sounds great, eh?

Well, management has control over the boiler, so I often find myself wrapped in lots of warm clothing. What a deal. :rolleyes:

josevolution

decides2dream wrote:

i'm in a ranch too. however, even when we have a fire in the fireplace in the LR...the rest of the house gets very cold b/c the thermostat is in the LR and yea, only the fire warms the room it's in. i know a few people who have woodstoves and while it is quite warming, it really doesn't do too good a job at warming multiple rooms, etc. that's all.

yeah we also have a fireplace inthe LR but i would add a wood burning stove and place it in my denn at the back of the house will see how this winter goes, if i was to do this i would install it during the summer i'm not going to start a major job like this now but something to kick around as i pay for another oil delivery ...

josevolution

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

Ouch. How long does that last you?

i hope till march ....

Fighting Hellfish

yeah, I just cut a check for $741 for 220 gallons. And it doesn't even last as long for me, as I have an oil fired hot water heater

josevolution

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

yeah, I just cut a check for $741 for 220 gallons. And it doesn't even last as long for me, as I have an oil fired hot water heater

yeah me too damm i might have to change that to gas water heater ..

Fighting Hellfish

I'd love to witch to gas, but Keyspan's line ends 4 blocks away. When I bought the house, I called them about a switch. They said it would cost well into the thousands to run a gas line to our house.

Chrissyb

Your lucky you get to March.. I will be lucky if I get to New Years.. last year I purchased oil every 3 1/2 weeks..

We just replaced the windows so I'm not sure how long this will last us.

josevolution

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

I'd love to witch to gas, but Keyspan's line ends 4 blocks away. When I bought the house, I called them about a switch. They said it would cost well into the thousands to run a gas line to our house.

i have gas stove but not from kspan i had a plummer run the gas line from the outside into my basement up into my kitchen, i will inquire if i can run a water heater off the that gas tank that sit's on the outside of my kitchen ...?

ajedigecko

years ago my cousin heated their ranch with a wood burner......they would put fans around to pull the heat to the rooms that were difficult to get heat in.

our home was built a year ago and is real efficient i have thought about installing a wood burner also.....for loss of power reasons when ice storms hit.

PatrickBateman

yup, couple weeks ago I paid $299 for 100 gallons....the next day it went up 14cents per

josevolution

PatrickBateman wrote:

yup, couple weeks ago I paid $299 for 100 gallons....the next day it went up 14cents per

i wonder if this problem has a ceiling cause i can't take the fucking prices going up all the time ....

polaris

wood stoves are pretty inefficient ... masonry stoves on the other hand ...

guess it's better then burning oil tho ...

vitodacat

josevolution wrote:

that is how much i just payed for 200gl of oil for my house ,im sick of this i might have to convert to heating my house with wood burning stove anybody out there have one of those stoves this sucks .....

after what the oil market did today, $592 will seem like a bargain

josevolution

vitodacat wrote:

after what the oil market did today, $592 will seem like a bargain

thanks for the silver lining or for the be prepared to dish out way more to heat the house info ....

given2fly78

We just put in a Carrier Weather Infinity Super Efficient furnace. Cost a fortune to buy, but it will seriously reduce our bills. We have a woodstove in the basement but it just doesn't cut it. By the time we get home from work, light a fire, it's midnight before the house is warm. But the basement is toasty LOL!

So we'll occasionally light a fire, mostly weekends. But are pumped about the furnace. Oil is out of control. Stupid forecasters. All speculation, I swear!