Buying house with oil heat

[georgemiller]

New York has multiple ban things going. All new construction in NYC last I knew had to be electric only. No oil, no gas. In the summer when heat wave hits they already send out, don't charge your cars, reduce AC use etc. Just not what I'm looking for when things go wrong.

I can fire up my gas generator and keep my heat on. I did that during hurricane Sandy. All cars were fueled, spare cans full. I put generator on a couple times a day to get hot water for showers, warm the house, fridge/freezer. The gas stations around us didn't have power or generators so fuel was an issue. Natural gas and a NG generator would have been nice BUT again at over $130k, not happening. Best I can do is Heat Manager on boiler, Oil Vent Damper on flue, keep it tuned.

I just got a heat pump setup 2-3 years ago. I haven't tried running it from generator yet. Not sure I want to as generator is OLD and I don't want to fry anything in the HP.

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New York has multiple ban things going. All new construction in NYC last I knew had to be electric only. No oil, no gas. In the summer when heat wave hits they already send out, don't charge your cars, reduce AC use etc. Just not what I'm looking for when things go wrong.

I can fire up my gas generator and keep my heat on. I did that during hurricane Sandy. All cars were fueled, spare cans full. I put generator on a couple times a day to get hot water for showers, warm the house, fridge/freezer. The gas stations around us didn't have power or generators so fuel was an issue. Natural gas and a NG generator would have been nice BUT again at over $130k, not happening. Best I can do is Heat Manager on boiler, Oil Vent Damper on flue, keep it tuned.

I just got a heat pump setup 2-3 years ago. I haven't tried running it from generator yet. Not sure I want to as generator is OLD and I don't want to fry anything in the HP.

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Should be interesting to see how this new all electric mandate works out. I for one would never want to rely on all electric without having a back up plan. I'm not really sure if NYS will allow natural gas hook ups to install generator. If they do it's going to set you back big $$ as you'll need to get standby generator at least 20,000 watts to get electric heat working plus cost of gas line run. I like you have oil heat, do my own maintenance, get COD oil and have zero issues.