Heat pumps much better now?

And what do they do when the old oil furnace blower pushes air at it's fixed higher speed rate, suited to a 120K BTU furnace and you have air coming out that feels cold? How about when the furnace goes kaput in

As to these guys having 50 years experience, I'm not so impressed. Micky already said he had someone out that gave an estimate on adding a heat pump system and they didn't even look at the panel. He said he has a 60A panel. Nuff said on that one.

Only if I feel the air coming out at all, and I only do that when I'm barefoot in the bathroom. How much time do you think I spend barefoot in the bathroom? 20 or 30 minutes a week.

Of course there will be that additional cost, some time in the future. I knew that before I talked to anyone.

And two other estimators from other companies reacted the same way.

More than enough. You're making a mountain out of little pile of dust.

I didn't like the guy who wanted to reline my chimney. He said oil burned hotter. Maybe but it's been burning hotter all these years too, and it's not a masonry chimney. So for that and several other things about him, I called anotehr company.

So counting the quack there have been 4 proposals and no one objected to using the oil furnace, even though they know all about the airspeed, and the only one to comment on the fusebox was the quack. But in your honor I'll explicitly ask one or two of them. They were all throrough and I'm sure they'll say it's fine.

Carry on then, I bow to your knowledge.

It's a little pile of dust when you have someone come over to scope out a new heating system, giving you an estimate and they are recommending adding a heat pump, and they don't even look to see you have only a 60A panel? Very well, carry on.

That's a good one Micky! You want to add a heat pump, have only a 60A panel, and you think the only guy who checked what size service you have is the quack?

But in your

Carry on then. Have you even figured out the economics of oil vs heat pump in your area?

If you use oil for backup 60 is likely adequate - barely - but you wouldn't get to install it thet way here (and you'd have a hell of a time selling the house and getting new insurance with a 60amp service)

A) He said I'd probably need a new one, but he didn't check what I had.

B) hew was a quack for several other reasons as I had clearly written, about 2 of them. You a) just like to argue, b) like to argue with someone who gets the better of you in political discussions.

Suggesting you probably need a new service/panel without even checking what it is, finding out it's 60A, makes him dumber than the rest. And he's the only one that had anything to say about the service. Go figure.

Not arguing, just observing that while you say some of these HVAC guys had 50 years experience, according to you not one of them bothered to check what kind of service you have to support a heat pump and the service is just 60A. So, like I said, just carry on, you're dealing with morons.