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- Woodstove
- Solar
- Combination of the above
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Ruth, how the heck are you? It was nice to have finally met the name.
We built this house with the idea of capturing the suns energy in the winter and keeping it out in the summer.
We built (my mason buddy from college) a masonry heater to heat the place totally if necessary and for constant use in the fall and spring when turning on the HW floor heat doesn't make sense=what with the passive solar and pretty good (at the time) insulatory techniques.
Otherwise, the main heat source is HW heat in the concrete floors down, a couple pcs of salvaged HW baseboard in two of the three bedrooms up and HW tube sandwiched between subfloor and ceramic in the baths-up.
Combo.
ps: as much heavy breathing as allowed.
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Hi, Calvin -- nice to have met you, too.
Haven't been to Breaktime much lately, except to post polls and such. They keep us more than busy here...
Electric heatpump upstairs, gas heat and electric a/c downstairs.
I wish we could have made indvdual choices rather than simply "combination".
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
I am in South Texas...any heating in our house is generated by friction, or anticipation of friction. : - ) Yeehaw! See results attached below.
Dual heat pumps until 32 degrees, then oil burner takes over, with the manual option to go strickly one source or another. Electric baseboards remain as a third option should the need arise (and it did two years ago when the air handler crapped out.)
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Invictus, by Henley.
We are primarily on oil. The system is a radiant floor in the slab on the first level and hydronic baseboard on the main and upper floors, though they can remain comfortable in all but the worst weather from ambient heat rising off the slab.
We also have two wood stoves to help reduce the bills, and because we live on an island where electricity often goes out, but because of occasional respiratory problems we both have that are aggravated by any hint of wood smoke, we do not rely on it as much as I would like.
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If answering for the project house, I would have been looking for the 'none of the above'. Wheew, supposed to be in the 20's tonight. I really gotta get things moving and get a heat source in that house (other than me and the halogen worklight).
jt8
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." -- Goethe
it doesnt get cold here, but when it chilly, two weiney dogs under the covers keep the toes warm.
Hey! I resemble that.
My "ahem" 30 pound wiener dogs put out some serious heat!
The one I had as a child was always under the covers against my feet during the winter.
The rest of the house is on natural gas. Wienie dog heat is a limited source....:)
Marc
Edited 10/16/2006 9:41 pm ET by Marc
Two condensing gas furnaces downstairs, heat pump upstairs; lots o' gas and wood fireplaces for spot warmth.
Forrest
Brand new heat pump for basic heating a 3600 sf house (old one just died). We added a pellet stove for cold weather and comfort in the basement.
No propane? I guess that's other...
I'm surprised more of this gang isn't heating with wood; I'd have thought this bunch of rugged individualists would have more than 5.
I've got one Jotul #3 that heats this whole place except for the basement (no easy way to circulate the warm air down there; the stove is on the first floor). I'll use about 6+ cords per winter, although one year I went through nine (I was on sick leave from work all that winter, so I was home all day instead of at work).
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not brought
low by this? For thine evil pales before that which
foolish men call Justice....
heating with wood
DW insisted on alternate (went HP) to wood before she hit 60, didn't want to split and stack 7 cords a year anymore<G>.
Everytime the grandkids are over though they want a big fire.
I heat with wood, I got three pieces, that hold me for the winter.
Yah, if yer burnin' old form boards, they oughta crackle and pop real good....Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I heat with wood, I got three pieces, that hold me for the winter.
If you need three pieces, you can have the three I didn't burn last year... All I need is a 350# DW to keep me warm. I do noticed the high energy cost though.........
Semper Fi
ps. sure glad she doesn't read these!
didn't want to split and stack 7 cords a year anymore<G>.
Groan! You just reminded me of what I gotta do tomorrow if it doesn't rain again. I swear, this year I'm gonna rent a hydraulic splitter. I'm gettin' too old to be playin' Paul Bunyan with that 8-lb. splitting maul.
Although it does have a certain 'therapeutic' value, I suppose....Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
If'n ya needs additional theraphy,... come on down (g)
dave
If'n ya needs additional theraphy,... come on down (g)
No thanks. Too much of a good thing, as they say....
How much heat could you need 'way down there, anyway, LOL?Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
Here in Michigan, we've got an ancient gravity air furnace which runs on natural gas (used to run on coal). I love the thing. It dates from the 1930s, is totally quiet (unlike forced air), and not as expensive as you might think. Now, it looks like an octopus and it takes up most of the basement. But, boy, does that sucker crank out the heat! We've found a great furnace guy who loves it almost as much as I do. He refers to it as "semi-industrial" and keeps it ticking along. We once had another furnace guy come in. He wanted to sell us a new furnace and proudly proclaimed that his brand was guaranteed for 10 years!
Hey, Dino, how do you like your Jotul #3? I plan to get one for our summer home in Nfld. It won't be used there in the winter but it can get chilly in May and October. I'm thinking that a Jotul F3CB should heat our 1,200 square foot house reasonably well for those "shoulder" months. We also have electric baseboard but that can get expensive. I've been looking for a used one on craigslist and Ebay but, so far, haven't had much luck. I may have to bite the bullet and buy a new one.
Chip
"Although it does have a certain 'therapeutic' value, I suppose...."
Especially if you xerox a thousand copies of a certain special someone and place them on the log before splitting.
I heated with wood for years. I decided to go with the pellet stove to reduce the mess and extra work. For me, it was the right choice - cheaper, cleaner, easier to unload, lower maintenance.
I decided to go with the pellet stove to reduce the mess and extra work.
One of the nice things about heating with solid wood is that operationally, it's so low-tech you are not dependent on any outside resources to keep yourself warm. Yes, certainly, the modern air-tight woodstove is a carefully engineered piece of equipment (some even include catalytic converters, althought mine does not), so anyone who thinks he's 'back to the stone age' with such a device is simply demonstrating his ignorance of why the stove is such an efficient source of heat.
But if the regional infrastructure here fails--as it did for many days during the Ice Storm of '97 ('98?)--I can keep right on producing as much heat as I need to with no need for any other source of power than my own muscles. If need be, I can fell, branch, cut, and split enough fuel in a day or two with an axe and a splitting maul to keep me going for close to a month. (Note I did say 'if need be': I certainly prefer using my chain saw to taking apart a 20"-butt maple with an axe. But I did it the hard way before I owned that big Jonsered.)
I looked into pellet stoves when the first ones were introduced up here a number of years back. Æsthetics aside, they do provide solid-fuel heat in a more convenient and less messy form...but they require a source of electrical power in order to operate. Plus there is no practical way for you to produce your own fuel if your supply source runs dry or can't deliver because of closed roads or some such. That puts it back in the 'secondary-energy & manufacturing-dependent' class of heating devices.Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
I agree that the woodstove keeps you fully independent - that's why I like the one in our last house. That being said...
I live in Oregon, where you can buy pellets at HD, Lowes, the farm store, the grocery store, the lumber yard... We buy a couple of ton at a time, and I always keep 1/2 a ton at the ready. I agree with you - I don't like the fact that I have to depend on electric power to run the thing - I am considering getting a generator just for this reason.
We also have a zero-clearance metal fireplace, and a whole bunch of down trees in the forest beind the house. I am going to put air-tight doors on it, and get a cold air supply to it (its in the center of the house). That's gonig to be my emergency heat source.
We also have a zero-clearance metal fireplace, and a whole bunch of down trees in the forest beind the house. I am going to put air-tight doors on it, and get a cold air supply to it (its in the center of the house). That's gonig to be my emergency heat source.
There ya go. No point in letting those trees go to waste.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
"I can keep right on producing as much heat as I need to with no need for any other source of power than my own muscles. If need be, I can fell, branch, cut, and split enough fuel in a day or two with an axe and a splitting maul to keep me going for close to a month."Right on...Seems to me that wood is about the only commonly-used fuel that gives you 5 times the bang for the buck. You get warm while you cut it, warmer while you split it, warmed again when you stack it, warmed when you burn it, and as the fire dies, the embers warm your soul.
I heat my house usually by turning the portable dehumdifier on and turning the electronics such as the TV on. I live in a 650 sq ft garage apt. that has been insulated with icynene plus a layer of 3/4" isocynurate foam board. Yeah it gets warm in here... gotta crack the door if I want to cool down a bit. I guess my body heat helps heat the house too. Last winter I walked around in shorts much of the time. Monthly electric bills have never broken past the $75 mark and average about $45 but that is because the TV is on a lot and I use the computer a lot too. On really cold nights I have a little oil filled space heater and it usually is set pretty low. I use a down comforter at night. If I move to larger quarters it will hopefully have the same insulation and I don't have any plans to move.Handyman, painter, wood floor refinisher, property maintenance in Tulsa, OK
Is direct venting an advantage that pellet stoves have over wood burning stove? Or can you get a wood burning stove that direct vents like a pellet stove so I don't have to build a whole chimney?
Bill
I have a H.S.Tarm wood boiler in the basement hooked to my oil boiler on a separate chimney. I bought about 10 cords of tree length hard wood this year for 80 dollars a cord so thats my heating cost for the winter and ill probably have a cord or two left for next winter. iI also get all my hot water from it so Im good with this system. were looking to sell this house in a few years as this house is to big for us now and im looking into doing a heated slab on a one story home and then ill use even less of whatever I burn oil, propane or wood.Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
Greetings Vic,
I've had a good look at the H.S. Tarm systems http://www.woodboilers.com and I'm impressed by the engineering and the reasoning too.
I'd like to know which system you have and how well it's lived up to the claims made on the web site.
I'd also like the hear what other systems you considered and why you chose this one over them.
Thanks, Peter
Harmon Mark III coal stove heats our home. Have a propane furnace for the less cold months and when away on vacation. Neither of these was a choice, so I picked "other". Two tons at $180 / ton lasts the year. Low hit 12*F last night, a toasty 73*F inside, no wife complaints!
we heat with Hot-Air solar collectors ( about 60% of annual btu's required )
and the backup is electric radiant ( cove heaters mounted about 6" below the ceiling line on the exterior walls
as long as the sun is out we don't care what the outside temperature is
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as soon as the sun came out.. the snow melted off and the collectors were blowing 120 deg air
this array is 36' x 10'
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Edited 1/3/2008 2:16 pm ET by MikeSmith
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Mike,
Not meaning to side track this post, but I saw the picture of your house. I'm building a 16x32' of the same design. I was wondering about the shingles. When the long angle of the gambrel roof meets the steeper shorter angle, how did you do that transition?
Did you just wrap the shingles over the "edge" and nail? Did you cover the roofing nails with a dot of roofing sealer?
Also, what brand of solar air heaters do you have and what's the sq. footage of the collectors vs the sq. footage of your home?
Thanks,
Bill
the main house that is solar heated is 28x40 with the 2d floor 20x40the collectors are ones thqat we designed and used to sell in the '80's ( Solar Homes Inc System 60 )..... it's a double layer 2x3 wood grid.... flat black galvanized absorber plates... and single glazed low-iron glass ( 4x10 ) covers
many different ways of treating the breeak in the two roof pitches.... look for details under " gambrel" or "dutch colonial "
my favorite is a fascia (breakboard) the lower roof goes under the break fascia & flashing
the upper roof is treated just like a low pitch roof ..
breaqking shingles over the break is not usually a good idea
start a different thread if you want more details
do it in the "construction techniques" folder label it something like "gambrel roof details... ther are lot's of good details that these guys have about that
Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Edited 1/3/2008 10:29 pm ET by MikeSmith
Thanks, Mike.
Hi HVC
Actually we bought the house and the wood boiler was already installed, it is the original design boiler with out oil burner. but it does a sweet job its tall narrow and red-ish orange. it has wood and coal grates but I only used coal a few days once to try it , it heated fine but I like wood , more simple for me. and I love cutting wood up with my chain saw. the guy I get my wood from doesnt have equipment to cut anthing larger than 12 ins across so most I cut I dont even have to split just throw it in and it takes a 24 in log. and 3 to for lg pcs will burn all night. last fill around 11:30pm and hot bed of coals at 8 am ready for more wood. Ive looked at the outside wood boilers but there seems to be a little talk about smoke around for neighbors . dont know much about that. mine smokes but burns clean when its opened up a little. Hot water runs from circulator on boiler into my oil boiler then the circulator sends hot water through 2 loops in house. I cant tell you what I would have chosen except this in so easy to run and its not that big it sits beside my stairs and its not much wider then 30 ins so it is great down in the basement and my basement is warm so I have warm floors and we get so much heat from it we sometimes have to open the attic door when the outside temps are around 25degrees. today its about 4 degrees and downstairs is around 74 and up stairs is about 78. its getting hot. I would recommend this boiler but I don't know much about the new ones except they must be even more efficient. this boiler is about 25 years old and still running good. My friend has one in his basement that was only used about 4 years and unhooked and drained that I can have if I want to go unhook it and get it out . If we decide to stay here much longer Ill go get it. hope this helps you out a little.Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
Our house is equipped with a heat pump and propane backup, but like Dino, we try to burn as much wood as possible in a Napoleon 1400 wood stove. We'll use about 5 to 7 cords a year.Also like Dino, there are times when I get tired of the nightly maul routine. My usual weapon of choice is a 5 pounder, but I've got a 6 and an 8 for tough SOBs. The five pounder swings much faster and is usually all I need.When I REALLY get tired of the gathering, hauling and splitting I'll give serious consideration to a pellet stove. The current Pine Beetle epidemic in Canada has produced a glut of pellets. It's a cheap energy source for now.Scott.Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”
Thanks Vic,
I'm glad to hear that the long term test results are so favorable. The one improvement that I'd like would be the holding tank/reservoir. Might prefer the separate oil and wood boilers too.
Their web site is very informative.
my system would be so much better if I had a water storage tank could do it with 100 gals but 1000 or more would be even better. I could shut it down for longer runs and open it up once a day for a few hours . and save on wood and have plenty of stored heat.Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
I'm impressed by the efficiency claims with the big tank too. Looks like you could even get by with electric baseboard as a backup system instead of a second boiler, as long as the home is super insulated. That could keep the investment on par with a more typical solo oil fired system.
Thats a good point you would only need a back up for when you might go away for a day or more.or when you might give it a real good cleaning in middle of heating season. I haven't shut it down once sense I started burning around Nov 25th I would have started burning wood before that but we went to Boston for 3 weeks after Halloween so my wife Lisa could have brain surgery, She has a tumor that shes had for about 14 years and it started growing again but its not causing her much of a problem right now except for being tired and needing naps in the afternoon. due to meds mostly, but were trying to get that taken care of with a blood test tomorrow to try to lighten up on her meds a little. The only real cleaning it needs during the winter is emptying the ash tray it pulls out the bottom and then shake the grates a little let it sit a few more hours to let coals in tray burn down to ash then empty again . do it about every 1lf cord or less. I dont do it often enough myself. but yes you could get away with a small Gas heater for example for those cold mornings in fall and early spring when it warms up during the day just to get the chill off.Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
I lived in a small house/cabin I built on an even smaller budget which had electric baseboard as a back up system for my woodstove.
The house had a lot of glass and not much thermal mass. In addition the woodstove was small and hard to control so, on very cold nights, the fire would often burn down before I would wake up causing the electric baseboard to kick on.
My main remedy for the lack of thermal mass was to put an old stainless steel Surge milker full of water on top of the stove. It held five gallons and would radiate very nicely, keeping the little place warm for an hour or more after the fire had burned down.
My other remedy was to drink an extra glass of water before retiring for the night. That would be sure to wake me up after about four hours, just in time to get the fire built up again for the remainder of the night.
Needless to say, after a number of years living with that system I'm ready for something with a lot more efficiency but I'm also able to appreciate how certain alternatives work.
After reading what they say about their stove's efficiency aided by that hot water storage tank, I'm pretty sure that the stove could provide enough sustained heat and hot water with minimal attention, like they claim.
Best wishes for continued improvements in your wife's health.
Peter
Thanks for the good thoughts ... VictorCarpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
I thought I would put up a few pics of our house just to show what we heat with this wood boiler system. up here in Maine it was 17 below last night and when I got up at 7am it was 72F degrees downstairs. Its 0 out side now Brrrrrr have a good day and stay warm. we live on a dead end street and we are the dead end... surrounded by trees that are nice and shady all summer. Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
Edited 1/4/2008 7:49 am ET by dogboy
Holy crow, that looks cold! I was sitting here wearing a hooded sweatshirt and when that first photo of your house came up, I shivered involuntarily and quickly pulled the hood over my head. Didn't help much.
Having a pretty good idea of how that old place was built, I'm even more impressed by what you've said about your wood boiler.
I certainly appreciate what you've added to this thread. It's giving me a worthy alternative to several other systems I've been considering.
like most homes built around here frame it sheath it during summer months and go inside to finish it when the snow flies.Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
Heat and domestic hot water, and my shop are all heated off wood..Woodmaster. Keith C
can you get a wood burning stove that direct vents like a pellet stove so I don't have to build a whole chimney?
I don't think so, but you can install a pre-fab insulated metal chimney without much trouble, unless you need to run it up through the center of the house itself (if you do, you'll need to frame a chimney chase with the appropriate clearance for the smoke pipe).
Easiest install is to put the woodstove near an exterior wall, then run the smoke pipe out the back of the woodstove thru the wall and use an insulated T with a bottom cleanout as the base of the pipe which runs up the outside of the house. You don't need to build a chimney or chase around it except for æsthetic reasons; the insulated pipe can be left exposed to the weather and will function quite nicely.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
>>>Easiest install is to put the woodstove near an exterior wall, then run the smoke pipe out the back of the woodstove thru the wall and use an insulated T with a bottom cleanout as the base of the pipe which runs up the outside of the house.Except that the entire chimney will need to be built from A-vent triple wall pipe; big bucks, especially if it's a multi-storey building. It's worth doing the math to compare costs between this option and the interior option.Scott.Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”
Thanx. Yes I've done this with another much older house in the Catskills. But it really won't work aesthetically for this house. Plus, since this is a new house and I have plenty of projects lines up for me, I want to watch out for scope creep. Building another chimney is not something I relish right now. I was looking for a simpler solution.
Anyhow it may pay for me to wait out a season or two and see just how painful the propane bills are. During the weekend it will be mostly weekend use (and a couple of weeklong trips) with the thermostat down to 54 during the week (although it can get mighty cold outside).
The poll missed propane as a heat source.
I heat my house with a dual-fuel Central Boiler wood furnace. The other fuel is propane. Nice thing about it, is that all the mess, smoke, combustion, everything is outside, and the only thing entering the house is a 1" hot water line running 185-degree water.
Reminds me of the parody of JJ Cale's Cocaine song-
When you live in the sticks,
And your income is fixed,
Propane.
Popular form of heating in the Santa Cruz Mountains out here. Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
That's forced hot air using a heat exchanger on the a/c unit--so the ducts are least efficient for warm air distribution (all ceiling diffusers, and a ceiling return). But, it's for only 10-15 weeks of the year.
Wow talk about surprising.
This board is no doubt heavily northern.
I just assumed everyone used electric.
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Why would we be in here looking at computer screens if the weather was nice outside? ;-P
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Wood heat with propane, hot water baseboard for backup. Lots of south facing glass helps, providing we get sunshine as opposed to the normal 40 days of nonstop snow. For me wood heat is a must have since it allows me to turn botched projects into instant BTU's.
For me wood heat is a must have since it allows me to turn botched projects into instant BTU's.
Roar! And probably half the guys on here.when in doubt add garlic
Roar! And probably half the guys on here.
Yeah, it's another big reason why I prefab everything in the shop and deliver the finished product. I get to destroy the evidence with no witnesses. Somehow my wife managed to get a few photos of my worst moments, keeps them in a stinking lock box someplace and threatens to do a photo thread on BT if I give her an undue hard time, have an affair or do some other stupid guy thing like leave the toilet seat up.
I see lots of folks that replied Natural Gas, but post on wood and dogs.
I have forced air, an 82% efficient 2 stage furnace and I plan on getting a Hoyme <http://www.hoyme.com> motorized air controller before too long.
I would have liked underfloor radient, but they did not build them in 1931, when the house went up.
Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR Construction
Vancouver, Canada
Edited 10/16/2006 10:33 pm by AaronRosenthal
There are ways to put radiant heat into/onto any flooring these days.
I looked into doing that in my 1950 brick home with the Oak flooring.,
It is possible but I don't know if I want to cover up that old fashioned style of real Oak flooring.
Nobody has said anything about what it costs for them and what the average costs are for their area.
I was curious to know if some of have got real efficient heating/cooling systems?
We are on retirement starvation wages and thus are on the level pay system with the Gas and Electric folks both for a current $137 per month. Not bad considering we were paying $250 average (no level pay) back in the 1960's in a different house.
We live in Wichita, Kansas which can be bitter but not every winter nor all winter. I do remember the winter of 1945 with the icicles from the eaves to the ground and no school for a few days.
We have a real native stone fireplace that was built into the house when new. its back is inside the attached garage which has the HW Tank and W/D inside. Got to use the fireplace January 2005 when we lost power in a snow storm. Hey, it did work! It also has a gas log in it in such a way that wood logs/pellets or coal could be used I think. At least I did until I figured out how to turn on the gas log. No electricity required for it either. A lot easier to move our bed mattress into the LR and close the BR doors than to shiver in the BR. The WB/GasFP kept us warm (in the high 50's) and the water flowing where it is supposed to be flowing.
When we looked into Pellet Stoves while we were living in Wyoming they had models with hand cranks on them so you could use them in times and places that there was no electricity.
Winter: God's reason for inventing mates perhaps?
Geo thermal and woodstove as needed.
All heat in the upstairs living area is supplied by the stereo and computer.
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore
Uhh, you, um in the wromg forum?
Nice and clean layout, tho'
Forrest - listening to a clock-radio and typing on a 400 MHZ machine
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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore
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central boiler using wood with a gas boiler in the house as back up but its not even plugged in right now. I seem to use a lot of wood but the house is old and not well insulated plus I burn the wood nobody else seems to want pine, ash, willow, etc but hey it heats my house just fine. I alos get all my domestic hot water from this system so my gas bill is all of 20.00 per month and thats the stove and the dryer otherwise I would be liven free. best money I ever spent, the gas company kept sending guys out to find out if my meter went bad beacuse prior to the wood burner my bill was 300.00 a month.
woodstove and attached solar greenhouse. The shop heats with woodstove and south glass wall. The south wall gushes heat loss at night and would benefit from some sort of thermal curtain but its only been that way for 26 years, whats the rush. Retired until my next job.