Seasoned Oak
Minister of Fire
Most homes around here need more than that to maintain heat. Average furnace is 125,000 BTU
My wood stove is 75000
Is this a good deal?
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My wood stove is 75000
lordgrinz
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What exactly is "most homes"? Mine is 1500sq/ft and I use only my XXV to heat with, works well for me, and toasty warm!
I have an accentra FS, which has less BTUs that the XXV. 2k SF up 2k in basement all insulated. The Accentra keeps up. My only complaint is the hopper size. Picked it up used for 1400. I would have been all over that XXV if it was available at the time. More refined. As long as you dont pay more than 1/2 of retail, you should be able to get your $ back if you change your mind. As close to hands off operation as you will get. Only fiddling needed is with the control panel to get the temp dialed in. Did my own install.
I don't think I'd want 125,000 BTU woodstove. If they even made such a thing.
I also question the value of comparing furnace BTU's to woodstove BTU's (I get it that a BTU is a unit of measurement) it's all about total output not capacity. I'd rather run a 50,000 BTU pellet stove for 3 hours than a 125,000 BTU furnace for an hour.......
A furnace is usually on demand and is disturbing heat throughout large areas so I get it that it needs to be higher BTUs because it needs to heat up fast and spread that heated air up over greater areas
Where a woodstove can chug along at lower BTUs 24/7 potentially even putting out more BTUs them a higher-rated furnace over time.
Seasoned Oak
Minister of Fire
This area has a lot of old multi story homes. Having installed quite a few furnaces in my younger days most were 125000 or more many times replacing unit larger still. My OLD leaky home has a 100000 BTU boiler that runs continously on very cold days. Newer ranch homes are by far easier to heat and usually could get away with 50000 Btu. My harman TL-300 wood stove also can heat my 3 story home from the basement and sometime does when my boiler is down.
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