Mom lives in PA and I'm in NC. My cousins husband just called to tell me that her boiler went out and water flooded the basement. Not sure exactly what is up if the burner box area that the pipe runs through is what broke or what.
Just curious to see if it would be better to change over to a natural gas boiler over her oil fired one, which is over 20 years old? It would get rid of the two 250 gallon oil tanks in her basement, which are half full. Natural gas hook up is there at her house capped off. So it would be just to hook up to it and run a gas line to the furnace, which is litterally on the other side of the wall from where the gas line is located outside.
I don't know what the difference is in cost. To me if they are close to the same and even if the natural gas boiler is a few hundred more, it would be worth it since she wouldn't have to worry about running out of oil. Not to mention it is a little bit cheaper I think then oil.
The basement got flooded, nothing major since the floor drains took care of the water but what little carpet she had down there is soaked. Would her insurance cover any clean up in that area? I would think so but not sure. Sucks that I'm way down here but then lucky to have cousins up there with her that can handle this.
Just curious to see if it would be better to change over to a natural gas boiler over her oil fired one, which is over 20 years old? It would get rid of the two 250 gallon oil tanks in her basement, which are half full. Natural gas hook up is there at her house capped off. So it would be just to hook up to it and run a gas line to the furnace, which is litterally on the other side of the wall from where the gas line is located outside.
I don't know what the difference is in cost. To me if they are close to the same and even if the natural gas boiler is a few hundred more, it would be worth it since she wouldn't have to worry about running out of oil. Not to mention it is a little bit cheaper I think then oil.
The basement got flooded, nothing major since the floor drains took care of the water but what little carpet she had down there is soaked. Would her insurance cover any clean up in that area? I would think so but not sure. Sucks that I'm way down here but then lucky to have cousins up there with her that can handle this.