Reading the Talmud corroborates my belief that words are symbols, mental particles which acquire meaning as the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of individuals precipitate on them. Repairing, rehabilitating, and normalizing the heating system at 174 School Street. For me the target is neither the maintenance of any specific temperature nor the curtailment of expenditures to any given level, but making satisfied and happy to the greatest extent possible all family members involved. 6*1.25*4.50*30*6 = 6075.00 12*1.25*4.50*30*6 = 12150.00 24*1.25*4.50*30*6 = 24300.00 6*1.25*4.50*30*7 = 7087.50 12*1.25*4.50*30*7 = 14175.00 24*1.25*4.50*30*7 = 28350.00 134.40 2 <= B40 Tank/Equipment: Description Unit Price $3.4800 #2 Fuel Oil <= B40 Unit Price reflects your discount of: $0.07 Delivered By: Tom G on 01/08/2022 Starting Meter Reading: 0, Ending Meter Reading: 134.40 Customer NameDelivery/Service AddressCust #Invoice #Inv Date ERNST MEYER174 SCHOOL STREET - BELMONT, MA 02478749064481062021-01-29 Quantity Item Number 122.70 2 <= B40 Tank/Equipment: Description Unit Price $2.6700 #2 Fuel Oil <= B40 Unit Price reflects your discount of: $0.07 Delivered By: Bryan J on 01/28/2021 Starting Meter Reading: 0, Ending Meter Reading: 122.70 TOTAL $327.61 2021 122.70 gal $327.61 2022 134.40 gal $467.71 ave 128.55 gal $397.66 108.84 hours (7 mos) 8.57 hrs per month $578.48 per season $2.75 / day $14175.00 per season $67.50 /day 64.75 per day saving savings $13596.52 Dear Nathaniel, In the 2021-2022 winter, the oil burner ran a total of 108.84 hours, or an average 8.57 hours per month, or .2856 hours (17 minutes) per day. That wassufficient tokeep the pipes from freezing. I don't know whether the house would be warm if the oil burner ran continuously, but if it did run continuously then at 1.25 gallons per hour, 5040 hours (seven months) it would consume 6300 gallons of oil, worth $28350.00. Assuming that the oil burner ran only half of the time during the seven months of the season, then a reasonable estimate of the heating costs would be $14175.00. Perhaps it is because in my childhood I experienced the abject poverty of my parents, that I am emotionally incapable of spending such sums in order to avoid the inconvenience of putting on long underwear, an extra sweater and an extra coat. But it is not for me to determine how you should think, how you should feel, and how you should spend $15000. This is the sum that I am willing to give you, to save, to spend on fuel oil, or for whatever other purposes you wish. If you do choose to heat the house with oil, you should proceed as follows: a) check their output voltages to determine which of the three thermostat transformers in the basement kitchen is unconnected and repair this deficiency. b) after the power has been turned off for two minutes, reposition the levers of all active zone valves to "automatic", leaving mechanically open all zone valves in the furnace room that are inactive. (If and when you get to this point, I will explain to you how to identify an inactive zone valve. Zone valves not in the basement that need to be reset are one each in the closets in the three second floor bedrooms,and two zone valves in the second floor bathroom facing the garden. c) change (or have the oil company's technician change the oil burner nozzle and the oil filter. (They will charge some amount between $75 and $150 for this service. d) adjust the thermostat on the pipe above the boiler to 170 degrees. e) turn each of the 17 air thermostats to settings above the present ambient air temperature. f) wait for 30 minutes and check all radiators and all baseboard heating units to make sure that are warm. g) identify any baseboard units or radiators which fail to get warm. Turn off all five thermostat switches (two in the furnace room, and three in the basement kitchen). Identify the zone valves which supply non-heating radiators, and throw the levers on these zone valves to open them mechanically. Turn on all five thermostat switches in the basement. Restart the oil burner. h) bleed the air from any radiator or baseboard unit which remains cold. For the old radiators such bleeding is performed with a special key which I have on my desk, and which I will give you. From the baseboard units air is removed by flushing them. To flush a baseboard unit, mechanically close the zone valve, - as always with power having been turned off for two minutes, attach a garden hose to the boiler drain above the zone valve, with its distalend in a sump, and then, with the zone valve closed, the power on and the circulating pumps running, open the boiler drain to flush the baseboard unit and keep the boiler drain open until you hear no further discharge of bubbling air. Again turn all thermostat switches off for two minutes before setting the closed zone valve next to the boiler drain you have just closed to "automatic". g) if after any air has been removed, the radiator still fails to get warm, either the thermostat or the zone valve is defective. Then, when there is a risk of freezing, again turn all thermostat switches off for two minutes before shifting the zone valve lever in the defective circuit to the open position.