i dipped my furnace's oil tank today, shocking to see only 10% remaining in the tank





so i got out my calculator



nov 28 (filled up) to jan 18 = 51 days

765 litres - 10% = 688.5 litres

688.5 / 51 days = 13.5 litres used per day

76.5 (10%) / 13.5 = 5.6 days of heat if i dont fill it up











































either this house doesn't hold heat or the furnace is wasting fuel.. or both

yeah thats not cool, at least its cheap now....

you dont appear to have calculated the thermal effeciency there, just the fuel consumption.

furnace mpg?

I see where you messed up. You need to be measuring the tank capacity in gallons, which are much larger than those metric liters. By using gallons, you will find that the number representing fuel consumption will be much lower.



Unfortunately, this will not have a favorable impact on the number of days until you run out of heat. Our calendar is much the same as yours in that we both use days. If our calendar used half-days, you would find that it would double the time-til-empty.



You are welcome. I offer my services as a technical consultant free of charge to forum members, but if you feel compelled to send me large sums of cash, I believe I can make an exception in your case.

that's what happens when you're heating 10,000 sqft!

this house isnt any more than 900 sq ft, ask defprun he saw



le tiny

how much does this bacon grease cost per litre?

eighty five cents

I'm getting a large discount on diesel this week I just need to decided how much i want to store, only need about 50 gallons in the boat, but at the price I'm getting would be nice to have some extra for the car, getting it for 25% below the pump price, but it's a one time deal :(

at mazda with that kinda discount we'd at least buy a 6 month supply...

I asked them if i could pre-buy 1000 gallons, they said hell no.

1000 squares are a perfect size. I'm in no place to judge i rent an apartment in the ghetto. Gas will dip to like 65 cents here once and a while colinz, you should fill up at the Green station on niagara street in welland. Its regularly 75 cents.

id rather heat this house on propane





and reinsulate it by building a bigger house around this one









and then tear the old house down inside the new house where its warm

350 bucks a month



sweet





on a related note, my heat pump seems to be frozen up. stupid ground source.

what happen!

I dunno, ground water must be barely above freezing or something

is has been minus 22 recently...





whos not doing their job to make sure that doesnt happen?

heating the ground? must be JEEBUS!!

theres some way to prevent that





other than the supernatural

I don't know the circuit in this building, but usually they would use alcohol in the system which would exchange heat with the groundwater https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683561.gif



According to the thermocouple, the tube is colder than 10F

thats what i want to do to this one

You should, or maybe your house needs boost?