Well it’s done!  We are officially no longer using oil – the oil boiler is gone!  That really saves a lot of space in the basement, opening it up a bunch.  The gas line is in (they even planted grass where they tore up the lawn – and some of it is growing even without me watering it haha!).  The new water heater (tankless) is in and feeding the hot water for the house.  The heat works, although it was only on to test it.  We have a furnace in the basement that does forced hot air downstairs then we have a gas line that goes up to the attic and runs a furnace up there that has forced hot air through ceiling vents to the upstairs.

The oil furnace is gone!

New tankless water heater nicely mounted!

New gas furnace

A view of the main trunk and return trunk.

We also have central air in the upstairs (condenser unit outside) that has been on for a few weeks (no gas needed).  So we are very excited to have actual heat this winter – no oil bill (just a gas bill which should be MUCH lower than oil has been!).

We also bought our own heat registers for the floors downstairs, the brown ones they installed were very nice but we were looking for something a bit more ornate to match the victorian feel since the downstairs has so much nice trim work we are doing to keep it victorian.  Upstairs the vents are in the ceilings and I couldn’t find nice ones to replace them so we’re leaving the simple white vents up there.

Heat registers (this is actually a return, the registers are smaller)

If I haven’t said it, I’m very excited, last winter half the downstairs didn’t even have heat because we had removed the radiators during renovations.  Now every room has heat (the kitchen will be light on heat until we renovate and he comes back and adds a second drop to it but that was our choice since we don’t know the layout yet).  The ducts take up a lot of space but surprisingly they fit well in the basement, you can easily walk under them without even bending over so it shouldn’t be a problem.  In the attic they are all run to the side (behind what will be a knee wall) and then under the floors leaving the main area open still.

We just have to insulate the attic before winter so the furnace doesn’t freeze up.  Technically we could put in the knee wall and just insulate around the furnace but with the spray foam it’s easier to just do a large area.  We’ll see what happens, we have time before we have to decide and other projects to finish first.

On my list now is to find someone to remove the old oil tank and then someone to remove the old steam radiators!