Re: High efficiency wood-furnaces?

Posted by VaTom on February 28, 2005 at 14:54:45 from (64.4.122.254):

In Reply to: Re: High efficiency wood-furnaces? posted by jdemaris on February 28, 2005 at 06:17:48:

Love those old houses, but better you than me to live in one. (Same for the new baby.LOL) Not that my house has central heat either, built a house that needs no active heating system. Passive Annual Heat Storage is the system. No moving parts, just a lotta insulated dirt that cools us in the summer, storing the heat for winter. Bit of a climate difference there to here, I know. But we've got 8" of snow on the ground and it's still coming down. This place never goes below mid 60's. Or over 77°.

We've got 20k cu ft here and find a stove cozy for evenings. Burn 1 cord/yr. I've been wanting to find a used EPA stove for awhile. Around here, "used" generally means all but unused, decoration. I know they sell new ones, but my old Englander clone still works, just doesn't have EPA emissions. We never let ours smolder and my annual pipe cleaning yields maybe a pint of debris.

Next house is out of the ground, same style, but larger. It'll be 100% solar for the backup system beyond PAHS, including heating the indoor pool and domestic hot water. Thermostat controlled. Happened into a large quantity of solar panels, 480 sq ft. Now I need to find who sells bulk antifreeze for a 600 gal tank. Got lucky on the tank. It's an industrial pressure one with 1/2" thick walls. Was all my Cat could do to put it in place.

Good luck with your furnace search. I'm sure glad I don't live close down wind of an outdoor boiler. The ones I've seen here usually have creosote dripping off them and clouds of smoke. Actually picked up a monster, takes 4' logs, that used to backup heat 7 apartments from that solar system, if you want to come get it. Dragged it home and then learned it was way too big for my use. Not an outside version, needs a shed, or stick it in your new room. Then you could plumb your place for radiators. You don't have anything else to do this summer do you? VBG

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