The gas company is in the process of installing natural gas in our neighbourhood. We currently have an oil-fired pool heater (Laars XL) that is pretty old and will likely need replacing in a couple of years anyway, especially if the chipmunks keep nesting in it over the winter, so it seems like it would be worth replacing our house furnace and the pool heater at the same time. The one furnace company I called said that they'd run a gas line to the pool pad but they don't deal with pools so we'd need to call a pool company about a heater (and then they would have to go back to the furnace company to make sure the right size pipe was put in).
I'm assuming that a pool company would probably sub out the installation work to someone else, since it would just be attaching the heater to the gas line and the pool plumbing (and whatever electrics are required). My question is - what sort of contractor is that? I can obviously buy a heater from anyone, but while I replumbed my pool myself I don't think I'm competent to do gas fittings and I'd rather cut out the middleman and just go direct to someone that will do the tricky bits for me.
I'm assuming that a pool company would probably sub out the installation work to someone else, since it would just be attaching the heater to the gas line and the pool plumbing (and whatever electrics are required). My question is - what sort of contractor is that? I can obviously buy a heater from anyone, but while I replumbed my pool myself I don't think I'm competent to do gas fittings and I'd rather cut out the middleman and just go direct to someone that will do the tricky bits for me.
