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Wood Boiler with Oil Backup
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Actually...
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
A bunch of letters or degrees behind a persons signature is not always a certainty of an educated person .Never judge a book by it's cover .
The school of the streets or its cousin the school of hard knocks have turned out some pretty bright personalities .
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Strikermike
Guest
A bunch of letters or degrees behind a persons signature is not always a certainty of an educated person .cover .
I have met many people educated well beyond their intelligence.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
They seem to be on the rise .
Magnus
TreeHouser
I have a wood heating system. Had it for about 9 years now..
I burn for 3 hrs and have heat for 2 day's if it isn't under freezing point. Hot water included.
Heat is stored in water tanks in basement. in one of them there is a heater for hot water.
I burn about 25 cubic meters per winter (I think about 2 1/2 cord).
Inverted fire, ceramic combustion chamber this will give what we here call "blue flame burning".
Really high temps that burn up most things, like a cathlic (?) converter almost...
Nails burn even..
If I am prevented to make fire there is a electric option...
I burn for 3 hrs and have heat for 2 day's if it isn't under freezing point. Hot water included.
Heat is stored in water tanks in basement. in one of them there is a heater for hot water.
I burn about 25 cubic meters per winter (I think about 2 1/2 cord).
Inverted fire, ceramic combustion chamber this will give what we here call "blue flame burning".
Really high temps that burn up most things, like a cathlic (?) converter almost...
Nails burn even..
If I am prevented to make fire there is a electric option...
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Evidently it's a type of secondary gas burner much like the wood stove I designed and built during the late 70's .
If so that is very efficiant design, uses less wood .Gives off little polution because most of the gasses and tars in the wood are consumed in the fire .
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Catholic burner, just struck me as funny!
It's catalytic Magnus
It's catalytic Magnus
Magnus
TreeHouser
Yes, it is like a secondary burning, but converted so it burn down, not up.. The ceramic is what is the key to the higher temps.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
Link or brand name? Sounds interesting.
Magnus
TreeHouser
That was ruff times... All in name of religion..
Not easy with the language all the time.
Magnus
TreeHouser
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
Yes,it's basically the same as the one I built . I actually did not totaly design it but altered an already existing design . I think that due to the fact a downdraft fire box takes up more room plus it requires a little bit more attention when being stoked is one of the reasons they never caught on in this country .Plus of course the simple fact being that a plate steel wood stove will last for decades before it needs replaced .
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
If you're thinking on possibly moving one day already, then sure enough you will. I'd go with quality but traditional set-up. I'm betting the oil furnace with a woodstove upstairs will be your cheapest set-up that will sell well when the day comes. Ime a woodheater on the mainfloor of a full basement home will not really get you as warm as I like it though. I would not spend alot of money for a fancy type stove or burner when a good old woodstove in the basement will keep a house heated easily. I laugh at people that complain about woodheat as being 'hard'. Get off your ass people!
lumberjack
Young man on the go
25 cubic meters is 6.9 cords (~883ft<sup>3</sup>).
That's a lot of wood to a Southerner! That's roughly $1-1.1k worth of wood, right?
The latent heat capacity of water combined with its abundance is intriguing. Is it an open or closed system? Or asked another way does your buffer tank/hot storage tank feed the house or a heat exchanger?
Magnus
TreeHouser
By having the downdraft fire box you get to hale long tubes especially if it turns in front as mine do. that means you get a lot of wall surface with water that absorb heat.
If I have around 1200c in the fire channel, it has never above 280c as it leave furnest.
The heat is stored in tanks in basement to be used for day's... Without burning in furnest.
Loading of the tanks is controlled so it begin as furnest reach operational temp 78c. It holds this temp as it loads the tanks with a thermal valve.
This means that the furnest is giving 100% all the time.
I think this will last me another 10-15 years...
For me oil is not a option as I would have to pay 14 000SEK/cubic meter and burn about 3/ year to a cost of 42 000SEK = $6 268,66
Gas is about as hard to get as a private nuclear plant..
Electric would be about same as oil...
Heat pump is a option, especially Air to water pump as I have water system. Pump and things needed go to about $13 000 and it lasts about 10 years.
Deep drill to water, Ground to water about the same.
Magnus
TreeHouser
OK. good to know!
I was told it was about 2 face cords on 15cubic split wood tipped of in a pile.
It is about normal here for a furnest burner...
I burn everyday 3 months and in summer once on 4-5 day's, mostly for hot water.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
I know, me too!
brendonv
Tree Hugger
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If you're thinking on possibly moving one day already, then sure enough you will. I'd go with quality but traditional set-up. I'm betting the oil furnace with a woodstove upstairs will be your cheapest set-up that will sell well when the day comes. Ime a woodheater on the mainfloor of a full basement home will not really get you as warm as I like it though. I would not spend alot of money for a fancy type stove or burner when a good old woodstove in the basement will keep a house heated easily. I laugh at people that complain about woodheat as being 'hard'. Get off your ass people!
I think that's what's going to happen, Squish.
The Vermont Castings stove I have can heat an 8500 square foot house according to the manual, should do 1500sq' pretty easily I recon.
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