What kind of advice would you folks give a feller that is considering an indoor wood boiler?
I've got hot water baseboard heat. 2400 sq. ft. of home to heat in central Wisconsin. The current boiler is a Baxi Luna natural gas on-demand boiler.
I have a VC Montpelier insert in the living room that does so-so in heating the house. Only drawback is I get nervous when the mercury drops, the hot water pipes run in outside walls and the Montpelier will heat well enough that the boiler won't kick in.
I'm thinking if I burned wood but used the water pipes to distribute the heat, I wouldn't worry about freezing pipes.
What brands of boilers do you folks recommend? And size?
Do all the boilers need hot water storage?
What kind of soaking am I going to take as far as price goes? And will these boilers use less wood than heating with my insert?
I've got hot water baseboard heat. 2400 sq. ft. of home to heat in central Wisconsin. The current boiler is a Baxi Luna natural gas on-demand boiler.
I have a VC Montpelier insert in the living room that does so-so in heating the house. Only drawback is I get nervous when the mercury drops, the hot water pipes run in outside walls and the Montpelier will heat well enough that the boiler won't kick in.
I'm thinking if I burned wood but used the water pipes to distribute the heat, I wouldn't worry about freezing pipes.
What brands of boilers do you folks recommend? And size?
Do all the boilers need hot water storage?
What kind of soaking am I going to take as far as price goes? And will these boilers use less wood than heating with my insert?