Who burns with no backup heat source?

jharkin · Oct 28, 2013

tom dee said:
nope in a normal Cold area plumbing system right by crawlspace door theres a knurled fitting on cold shut off valve you tuir off valve oplen this fitting water runs out of house pipes to floor or bucket now nothing can freeze f

webby3650 said:
What?

Its an air bleed. Looks like this:

When you close the shutoff to drain the pipes, for the water to run out air has to enter the pipe to replace that water. If there is a long run from the shutoff to the nearest tap sometimes the air cant get back to the shutoff up the pipe, so having an air bleed like this to open makes it easy.

Process is like this:
1 Close shutoff
2 Open all the taps
3 Open the air bleed
4 wait for water to stop running
5 close air bleed

RFarm · Oct 28, 2013

I use wood as my only source of heat. I designed my house and built it myself - the insulation is 18" inches thick (cellulose) and measures out at R-65. My home also contains a large amount of thermal mass in the form of adobe covered walls (inside and outside) and ceramic tile floors I also generate my own electricity with a 4.5 Kwh solar PV system w/48V-3.5Kwh battery bank and heat my water using a Sunbank solar hot water heater (no backup water heater as well). Having a well insulated/high thermal mass home makes everything about heating and cooling so much easier. I live in the N. Georgia mountains @ 1500 ft above sea level - winters are generally mild and summer nights usually dip below 70 - a perfect place to live off the grid.

tom dee · Oct 29, 2013

RFarm said:
I use wood as my only source of heat. I designed my house and built it myself - the insulation is 18" inches thick (cellulose) and measures out at R-65. My home also contains a large amount of thermal mass in the form of adobe covered walls (inside and outside) and ceramic tile floors I also generate my own electricity with a 4.5 Kwh solar PV system w/48V-3.5Kwh battery bank and heat my water using a Sunbank solar hot water heater (no backup water heater as well). Having a well insulated/high thermal mass home makes everything about heating and cooling so much easier. I live in the N. Georgia mountains @ 1500 ft above sea level - winters are generally mild and summer nights usually dip below 70 - a perfect place to live off the grid.

Yes in the middle of building same In Nc USA ..

UncleJoe · Oct 29, 2013

Another one that heats exclusively with wood. Back in '03, in a different house, the combustion chamber in the ancient oil burner cracked. We had already been talking about putting in a wood stove to cut back on the oil bill. This little glitch put those plans into high gear but instead of a stove we went with a Hotblast 1400 wood furnace. We never looked back. Two years ago we moved. The new place had a really old oil fired boiler that heated the water as well as the house. The first thing I did was install a wood stove, install an electric water heater and disconnected the boiler altogether.

A couple strategically placed fans heat the small ranch house nicely. If we get into an extended, super cold winter, our backup is a Baker fireplace insert.

Dix · Oct 29, 2013

I have no back up. The OHW failed 4 years ago, and I went from there.

Gonna try to get it fixed this year, as well as the broken baseboard pipe.

If not, I'm good.

HillbillyDlux · Oct 29, 2013

Propane company came and took there stinking tank 3 years ago, used a wonder wood by US stove company for those 3 year. Put in a Englander NC-13 in a month ago and am loving it. Wish I had it the last few years, a lot less wood being burnt and more heat!

BIGDADDY · Oct 29, 2013

I have geothermal. Wood is my backup heat.

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