Ready to go for 19 months of continuous no hisense winter service! When we had the 1983 Borg Warner furnace, we always left the pilot light going all year. I need to pick up one of those long blow guns for refrigerator condenser coil cleaning. Since I read the prescription, I know where to find it! Seems like that would make my life ever so slightly, easier.
Yeah, it was no muss, no fuss, no getting strangled by pullstring cords, just fired right up, plain and simple. Thank you once again for reading the prescription!
The house I grew up in had an oil fired boiler with a coil for hot water so we couldn't shut the system down for the summer or we'd have no hot water. The house was built in 1964 and still had the original boiler when my parents sold it in 1999. It had baseboard radiators and I can still hear in my mind the sound they made as they heated up and started expanding. All kinds of ticking and creaking going on. The two houses I've owned have had hot air oil furnaces. I actually kinda like the furnaces better than the boiler if just for the immediacy of the heat. Within 2 or 3 minutes hot air is coming out of the vents and within 10 minutes you're saying "Holy crap it's hot in here!"
When I was a kind, we had an oil-fired boiler. Despite my dad servicing it every year, it still had issues, sometimes he'd come home and end up playing with it all night. In fact one time, he ended up getting a shock, and my mother found him down there afterwards. The boiler was originally coal-fired in 1956, and was converted to oil within a few years. That ran until 1990 when my dad converted to gas. That boiler is still running today. In our old apartment, there was baseboard heat, and indeed, it would tick and creak and make all sorts of noises. Most of the noise I hear from my system is actually in the basement, as far as pipes expanding due to change in temperature. And that's mostly just the first time it's turned on since they're going from dead cold to as hot as they get; right now the heat isn't running as much so they can indeed have "cold spells". The houses that really messed with my mind are the Levittown ones that were built, you'd have to read up about it but they were originally built for returning GI's and sold for ridiculously affordable rates. While it was really just a "starter home", some made do with what they had. The part that I could never figure out was because those houses were built quick and cheap, with no basement, they put the oil burner in a closet in the kitchen. Not exactly the place I want to be smelling that, but then again, probably better than in a bedroom. I've really only dealt with forced hot water systems, and not forced hot air. There is a Thai restaurant not far from me, and they have forced hot air heat. One day we went there in the winter and that was on, hot, and blowing strong, and our table happened to be right by a vent. That was indeed nice, it was one of those extra frozendy days outside. But when it shuts off, it's cold. Probably because you were used to the hot air blowing. Forced hot water is slower because it relies on natural convection. But it also retains its heat a lot longer
@@jaykay18 I think your opinion of the reliability of oil heat is jaded due to your experience of your father doing all the service instead of a trained oil burner tech who might have been able to fix some things that weren't set quite right and caused the temperamentallity. Aside from a few years in an old apartment where I had gas heat I've always had oil and it's always been very reliable. Yes you do have to have it serviced annually but if you do that the chances of having it breakdown are slim. My grandmother had an old coal boiler that was converted to oil. It was really old. Probably early 1900s. She had steam heat with the big cast iron radiators. That system made tons of noise heating up from cold. Big snaps and bangs. Once the system got fully heated up the radiators would intermittently vent steam with a Pssssssss until the pressure came down then it would stop with a CLANG. Then it would sit for a minute or so then Pssssssss CLANG!
@@tallboyyyy Doo Dah Doo had oil, had it serviced annually, and yet it broke down time and again. Then the entire burner was replaced. Ran great for a couple years, still serviced annually. Then it had a minor puffback. And yes, it did go out in the middle of the night a number of times. A neighbor had oil heat and when they'd first turn theirs on, black smoke would come out of their chimney for a good 15 minutes. I have no idea if it was serviced or what the deal was. But it's rare you hear about an old widowed lady whose gas heat went out in the middle of the night. It's a much less complicated system. The less complicated, the better. This video is the only maintenance I have to do. Oil has its advantages for sure, and can occasionally be cheaper than gas. And/or if you filled up over the summer months, and then in the winter the price shoots up, you still get to burn the cheap stuff and not have to pay whatever the gas company is charging, and that's going to be a whopper this year, I just got an email saying "too bad, so sad" from the gas company.
Sometimes I miss the combination of fan-forced heat with the boiler that I used to have. Definitely one hell of a unique system that was for sure. But one thing I like with the furnaces is how fast the heat exchangers warm up compared to the water.
Yeah that was definitely an interesting setup that house had. I highly doubt you could even get such an installation today, at least without much trouble! Allegedly, in the UK, they are outlawing gas boilers for new construction in 2025. And new cars, here in NY, that run on gasoline, will no longer be for sale in 2035. I have a sneaking suspicion that everyone's going to "drag their feet" on all this and it will be pushed back and pushed back, and then one day, put into place immediately without any warning, created 786,274 more problems in its place.
I am a Baltimore native and boilers are definitely the way to go in my opinion Gas definitely oil is a nuisance all the related maintenance and god help you if you run the tank empty
Oh yeah, this was the norm back in the day. People still regard it as the best possible heat you can get. And yes, no nonsense, at least on this boiler, no circuit boards or ignitors and coils, circulators on or off, gas valve on or off, the rest takes care of itself!
I’ve never experienced or dealt with baseboard heat since I’ve lived in the southwest all of my life but interestingly enough electric baseboard heating was popular in the Southern California area back in the 50’s and 60’s from what I’ve heard.
I have mostly the old-school in-wall radiators that were common in the 1950s when this house was built. Same idea as a baseboard radiator, but instead, the pipe makes 180° bends and runs through the fins 3 or 4 times before exiting. Baseboard runs for a longer distance but only has one pipe running through it. While not always done, most times these old-school in-wall radiators were placed under a window to promote natural convection. That is to say, no installation is perfect, and the cold air that seeps in from the window will sink to the floor, go in the bottom of the radiator, be heated, and convect into the room a bit better. Electric baseboard is actually a great heat source for areas that have limited need for heat. Although expensive to run, it is 100% efficient. Every watt of power you put into it turns to heat.
Raising the natural gas rates, for whatever reason they're pulling this time, is one thing. Raising the water rates by 30%, because the water company is greedy and unregulated, is something else entirely. And that's after a reprieve from not raising them during Calderona. Well they sure did raise them then, they just added the percentage on to the previous percentage. I just filled up THE BIG SIX the other week, I paid the highest for gasoline I have paid in the 5+ years I have had it. All fuel prices are up now, and nobody seems concerned enough to do anything about it.
@@jaykay18 Looking up the history of island of long, NY gasoline prices, there was a time you were paying the same price today as of 5 to 6 years ago. Anyway, people have enough money given to them, they don't have to work. Money has to return to the government somehow!
@@RollingTardis I had thought so, but that's as far back as my records go with that car. Perhaps prices had just come down before I got the car. Somewhere is the log book for gas for Old Clanky, I don't know if I have it. my dad has it, or it was thrown out, but that would tell the tale for sure. Money returns to the government through roughly 14,627.52 different avenues. It doesn't have to be this one.
Ready to go for 19 months of continuous no hisense winter service!
When we had the 1983 Borg Warner furnace, we always left the pilot light going all year.
I need to pick up one of those long blow guns for refrigerator condenser coil cleaning. Since I read the prescription, I know where to find it! Seems like that would make my life ever so slightly, easier.
Yeah, it was no muss, no fuss, no getting strangled by pullstring cords, just fired right up, plain and simple.
Thank you once again for reading the prescription!
Nice that you're furnace is from the 70s and it's still running wow!
It's a boiler, not a furnace. But yes, still works. I hope it holds on, it's expensive to replace.
@@jaykay18 nice that's neat
The house I grew up in had an oil fired boiler with a coil for hot water so we couldn't shut the system down for the summer or we'd have no hot water. The house was built in 1964 and still had the original boiler when my parents sold it in 1999. It had baseboard radiators and I can still hear in my mind the sound they made as they heated up and started expanding. All kinds of ticking and creaking going on.
The two houses I've owned have had hot air oil furnaces. I actually kinda like the furnaces better than the boiler if just for the immediacy of the heat. Within 2 or 3 minutes hot air is coming out of the vents and within 10 minutes you're saying "Holy crap it's hot in here!"
When I was a kind, we had an oil-fired boiler. Despite my dad servicing it every year, it still had issues, sometimes he'd come home and end up playing with it all night. In fact one time, he ended up getting a shock, and my mother found him down there afterwards. The boiler was originally coal-fired in 1956, and was converted to oil within a few years. That ran until 1990 when my dad converted to gas. That boiler is still running today.
In our old apartment, there was baseboard heat, and indeed, it would tick and creak and make all sorts of noises. Most of the noise I hear from my system is actually in the basement, as far as pipes expanding due to change in temperature. And that's mostly just the first time it's turned on since they're going from dead cold to as hot as they get; right now the heat isn't running as much so they can indeed have "cold spells".
The houses that really messed with my mind are the Levittown ones that were built, you'd have to read up about it but they were originally built for returning GI's and sold for ridiculously affordable rates. While it was really just a "starter home", some made do with what they had. The part that I could never figure out was because those houses were built quick and cheap, with no basement, they put the oil burner in a closet in the kitchen. Not exactly the place I want to be smelling that, but then again, probably better than in a bedroom.
I've really only dealt with forced hot water systems, and not forced hot air. There is a Thai restaurant not far from me, and they have forced hot air heat. One day we went there in the winter and that was on, hot, and blowing strong, and our table happened to be right by a vent. That was indeed nice, it was one of those extra frozendy days outside. But when it shuts off, it's cold. Probably because you were used to the hot air blowing. Forced hot water is slower because it relies on natural convection. But it also retains its heat a lot longer
@@jaykay18 I think your opinion of the reliability of oil heat is jaded due to your experience of your father doing all the service instead of a trained oil burner tech who might have been able to fix some things that weren't set quite right and caused the temperamentallity. Aside from a few years in an old apartment where I had gas heat I've always had oil and it's always been very reliable. Yes you do have to have it serviced annually but if you do that the chances of having it breakdown are slim.
My grandmother had an old coal boiler that was converted to oil. It was really old. Probably early 1900s. She had steam heat with the big cast iron radiators. That system made tons of noise heating up from cold. Big snaps and bangs. Once the system got fully heated up the radiators would intermittently vent steam with a Pssssssss until the pressure came down then it would stop with a CLANG. Then it would sit for a minute or so then Pssssssss CLANG!
@@tallboyyyy Doo Dah Doo had oil, had it serviced annually, and yet it broke down time and again. Then the entire burner was replaced. Ran great for a couple years, still serviced annually. Then it had a minor puffback. And yes, it did go out in the middle of the night a number of times.
A neighbor had oil heat and when they'd first turn theirs on, black smoke would come out of their chimney for a good 15 minutes. I have no idea if it was serviced or what the deal was.
But it's rare you hear about an old widowed lady whose gas heat went out in the middle of the night. It's a much less complicated system. The less complicated, the better. This video is the only maintenance I have to do.
Oil has its advantages for sure, and can occasionally be cheaper than gas. And/or if you filled up over the summer months, and then in the winter the price shoots up, you still get to burn the cheap stuff and not have to pay whatever the gas company is charging, and that's going to be a whopper this year, I just got an email saying "too bad, so sad" from the gas company.
Sometimes I miss the combination of fan-forced heat with the boiler that I used to have. Definitely one hell of a unique system that was for sure. But one thing I like with the furnaces is how fast the heat exchangers warm up compared to the water.
Yeah that was definitely an interesting setup that house had. I highly doubt you could even get such an installation today, at least without much trouble! Allegedly, in the UK, they are outlawing gas boilers for new construction in 2025. And new cars, here in NY, that run on gasoline, will no longer be for sale in 2035. I have a sneaking suspicion that everyone's going to "drag their feet" on all this and it will be pushed back and pushed back, and then one day, put into place immediately without any warning, created 786,274 more problems in its place.
@@jaykay18 Yeah I have a feeling none of that will happen, at least here. Nobody is just gonna be "okay" with that.
@@Sharkie626 True, there's going to be a lot of backlash. Then again, there are more and more treehuggers every day.
I am a Baltimore native and boilers are definitely the way to go in my opinion
Gas definitely oil is a nuisance all the related maintenance and god help you if you run the tank empty
Oh yeah, this was the norm back in the day. People still regard it as the best possible heat you can get. And yes, no nonsense, at least on this boiler, no circuit boards or ignitors and coils, circulators on or off, gas valve on or off, the rest takes care of itself!
I’ve never experienced or dealt with baseboard heat since I’ve lived in the southwest all of my life but interestingly enough electric baseboard heating was popular in the Southern California area back in the 50’s and 60’s from what I’ve heard.
I have mostly the old-school in-wall radiators that were common in the 1950s when this house was built. Same idea as a baseboard radiator, but instead, the pipe makes 180° bends and runs through the fins 3 or 4 times before exiting. Baseboard runs for a longer distance but only has one pipe running through it. While not always done, most times these old-school in-wall radiators were placed under a window to promote natural convection. That is to say, no installation is perfect, and the cold air that seeps in from the window will sink to the floor, go in the bottom of the radiator, be heated, and convect into the room a bit better.
Electric baseboard is actually a great heat source for areas that have limited need for heat. Although expensive to run, it is 100% efficient. Every watt of power you put into it turns to heat.
I set to 65° F heating settings at my home, how about you?
@@f23948 72°F in the winter, I cannot stand being cold.
@@jaykay18 i live in the desert in my city
@@f23948 I've often wondered if I could ever adjust to that.
Enjoy the, Up to 30% more on the natural gas bills!
Raising the natural gas rates, for whatever reason they're pulling this time, is one thing. Raising the water rates by 30%, because the water company is greedy and unregulated, is something else entirely. And that's after a reprieve from not raising them during Calderona. Well they sure did raise them then, they just added the percentage on to the previous percentage.
I just filled up THE BIG SIX the other week, I paid the highest for gasoline I have paid in the 5+ years I have had it. All fuel prices are up now, and nobody seems concerned enough to do anything about it.
@@jaykay18 Looking up the history of island of long, NY gasoline prices, there was a time you were paying the same price today as of 5 to 6 years ago. Anyway, people have enough money given to them, they don't have to work. Money has to return to the government somehow!
@@RollingTardis I had thought so, but that's as far back as my records go with that car. Perhaps prices had just come down before I got the car. Somewhere is the log book for gas for Old Clanky, I don't know if I have it. my dad has it, or it was thrown out, but that would tell the tale for sure.
Money returns to the government through roughly 14,627.52 different avenues. It doesn't have to be this one.