heating installation folks???

Think there are a couple on here anyway.....
new heater is on the horizon I guess so I need a couple things explained in dummy terms to pick out the best option...
have central hot water heating with an oil boiler and 150 liter tank for hot water (sink/shower).

Ideal would be just grab another boiler/tank setup and swap it out myself or have it in place and get someone to connect it. Already have 4000 liters capacity oil tanks in place.

When looking on the net tho, I see name brand gas setups that mount on the wall and have a 200 liter tank for half the price of off name oil setups.
Chimney sweep says gas is the cleanest and he would only have to check the chimney every 3 years... We don't have gas in our part of town and live too close to neighbors for a big outside tank. Only option is bottles (33kg) to swap out.....

Then there are pellets but off names run twice as much as good oil setups. And the room needed to store pellets......

Guess my ??? is, how does the gas compare to oil as far as kg-liter (to figure price and how often I'd have to swap tanks) Any tips are appreciated.

Dave

For those of us that are challenged on the metric units I think your saying you have a 1000 Gal oil tank and a 35-40 gal hot water tank.
Here around Washington DC I just looked up my November Natural Gas bill for November; used 69 cu. feet of gas to heat (force air system) a 4000 sq. ft house suplimented with a wood stove at the end of the month. Total cost(Distribution, gas and taxes) was $94. January and February will be at least twice that.
I also run a propane forced air system to heat my insulated shop and keep the water system from freezing. I'm only there on weekends but the small wall units run all the time from Thanksgiving through mid March. The month of December was 115 gal at just over $3/gal. ($369).

If you change to gas what are you going to do with the left over oil--burn it in your tractor (it is diesel after all) and how are you going to get the tank out (I'm assuming it is in the basement)?
Based on my information you can figure a close number for the amount of gas you would use and how many tanks you'll need a month. Remember they are heavy.
If it were me I would stay with oil unless I could get at least a 250 gal tank installed (500+ is better).

Lp will get you 91,600 btu's per gal. Fuel oil will get you 140,000 btu's per gal. Check fuel prices in your area for an accurate comparison.

In MN natural gas is about $1 per therm, 100,000 btu I think. Oil is about $3.50 (140,000 btu. propane is $2, I think 91,000 btu. Gas apliances are more efficient in general. I would think a gas chimney should only need an occasional inspection, never cleaning, even oil should not soot a chimney enough to need cleaning.
I thought Germany had lots of cheap nat gas from Russia, have to get yourself hooked up!

(quoted from post at 09:27:07 01/02/12) In MN natural gas is about $1 per therm, 100,000 btu I think. Oil is about $3.50 (140,000 btu. propane is $2, I think 91,000 btu. Gas apliances are more efficient in general. I would think a gas chimney should only need an occasional inspection, never cleaning, even oil should not soot a chimney enough to need cleaning.
I thought Germany had lots of cheap nat gas from Russia, have to get yourself hooked up!

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I live in the old part of town and there is no plan to run lines to us.... Just trying to get an idea of how many 33kg bottles I'd need for the year as a price comparison.... There is a couple websites that I'm trying to figure out but nothing simple....

(quoted from post at 11:20:29 01/02/12) In MN small tanks of propane (20-100 lb) figure out to be more expensive per btu than electric.

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Afraid that's what I'm finding here also on a couple sites I looked at... natural gas would be the ticket, but just not an option.... Looks like just sticking with oil...

In MN small tanks of propane (20-100 lb) figure out to be more expensive per btu than electric.