The furnace may be cheap, but the fuel certainly won't be. Our oil furnace gave up a couple years ago, so we changed to natural gas. At the time #2 furnace oil (diesel fuel) was over $4.50 a gallon plus a $100.00 delivery charge if you ordered less than 250 gallons. The fuel company was charging more per gallon than it cost at the gas station even though the gas station price included road tax. We were using about a tank full a year (275 gallons) at the family cottage that was only being heated 4 days every other week.
Since we've switched to gas it runs less than 100.00 a month and we leave the heat on all the time. The furnace runs less than 6 months of the year. The other 6 months we pay the minimum $10.00 a month just to have the service. If you do the math, it cost over $1,200.00 a year for 48 days of heat using oil, and $660.00 for six months of continual heat with natural gas.
Installation of the gas line and meter was free if less than 100' from the main line. According to the utility person measuring for the installation we were 96' from the line. I didn't get the same distance using my tape measure, but I didn't question his figures either.
