CTFIRE
Burning Hunk
- Dec 8, 2012
- 175
I was paying $4 gal for oil @ 1200 gals last year and my house was cold. I bought the E140 with auto oil for just over $11K. Less than 3 year pay back and I expect to get 20 years out of it. Easy math for me on ROIScott,
The price of the WG is high. However, all of the components are of high quality. Honeywell, Dayton, Riello, etc. The commercial components chosen are all industry standard for their high quality. The boiler is SS, so that inherently costs more. They went SS because the boiler condenses in the wood chamber during periods of inactivity. No way around that. US labor in PA certainly doesn't help their cost either. Just from a weight perspective, the WG weighs in at 1000+ lbs for the smallest models. Most other manufacturer's boilers weigh 400-600. More weight=more cost. I'm not saying it's better, just more expensive for reasons.
With that, when I priced my WG I could have had an E100 in SS for ~$7k. Most of the other boilers I priced of similar size weren't 50% cheaper, 10-15% was more like it.
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