we are planning to buy anew home and would like to change to oil heating?

Question

does anyone know how much this would cost,at the moment the house only has electric and a woodstove.we live in manitoba canada

or would it be just as cheap to keep the electric heaters?

Answer 1

I probably would go with propane forced air.It would less to install than a oil system, less cost to maintain, and more efficient to run, and quiet.
If you have electric heat now, I assume it is fairly well insulated, this is a plus.
It probably going to cost $3500 - $4000

Answer 2

If the electric heaters are baseboard or other installed type not using ducts and a blower to circulate the air, replacing them will be costly as the ductwork (or plumbing, if you use hydronic) is not cheap, and will probably cost as much as the furnace. The total bill could approach C$20,000. But it could be worth spending the money, as oil heat will cost only about a third as much as electric to run. Try to learn how much the electric bill has been in the past. If, on the other hand, the electric heat is a central electric furnace, replacing it with an oil-fired furnace could be much cheaper (perhaps C$5,000), but in any event you will have to deal with the combustion exhaust. This is less of a problem if you get a super high-efficiency furnace; the flue from one of these is plastic pipe, and can be easily run to any exterior wall. (A second pipe is used for combustion air.)

Answer 3

ADAM's Manufacturing (USA) makes an oil-fired, condensing, hot air furnace that is the most efficient EVER. They claim mid nineties for efficiency and I believe it. Looks like installation is DIY-able too.

I have a 20 year old YUKON, hot air, oil-fired, condensing unit and it is VERY good on oil.... once I worked out the bugs. MUST clean it out (DIY) twice a year, and change oil filters 3x year.

I would not hesitate to purchase an ADAM's.

As a ballpark estimate, if you use the ADAM's furnace as primary heating and wood stove as supplemental, I would SWAG a 1/2 to 1/3rd of your current electricity (for heat) cost (it's 11 cents/kw here in CT).

Answer 4

I brought a an old house and it had oil heating. I found that it had toxic smells and there was black soot on the walls behind the furnace. I decided to change to gas. It was much cleaner and no soot. It costs me about $2500.00, and I still have heat when I don't have money to buy oil.