I am brand new at this gig.
I am sick of dropping anywhere from $3500 to $5000 a year on oil.
And I live on Long Island, NY Not that cold here.
I have a 1951 "L" shaped ranch about 1800 sq ft.
In the 70's the previous owner put a 2nd floor addition with 2 bedrooms and bathroom.
Originally there was no insulation in the walls.
Again in the 70's they blew some type of tannish powdery material in the walls.
Some of the house has continuous baseboard radiation and some has the original in the wall baseboard radiation (4 inch wide x 36 inches long baseboard radiation with a big 36"x36" metal cover)
Any way I really don't know which way to go.
I definitely want a gasification boiler.
I am going to leave my oil pig in place as a back up.
I dont have any storage for DHW with the oil.
I'm concerned of the climate here.
Its not that cold all the time. I start heating (very moderately) in late Oct early Nov
and go to about late april (again very moderately)
The boiler is running almost non-stop from dec to march.
it runs all summer and fall for DHW.
My concern is the fall spring and summer.
Will I do better with a storage system so I only need to burn once a day or every couple days.
Or will the wood gun do as they say it will and "turn on and off" burning the same amount of wood as a storage system will.
I am leaning towards the Wood Gun by alternative heat.
They say they don't require any storage for heat but they do for DHW.
I like the on/off feature.
The Wood Gun e100 in stainless is about $8,000 no storage required.
The Tarm solo plus 30 is about $8,000 storage is required and I haven't priced that out yet.
The Eko 25 is about $5,700 not to sure on the need for storage but will be an obvious cost.
The Bio MAss 25 is about $6,300 same as thing with the storage.
Seems to me that I can start out with a wood gun and no storage for 8k or get another brand with storage and spend the same or more.
Ultimately if I do go for the Gun I could always add storage later and hopefully not spend that much more then if i had gone the other way.
Maybe I'm micro managing and just need to go for it.
I know of no one who has a system like this locally and am looking for some opinions and experience.
please help
I am sick of dropping anywhere from $3500 to $5000 a year on oil.
And I live on Long Island, NY Not that cold here.
I have a 1951 "L" shaped ranch about 1800 sq ft.
In the 70's the previous owner put a 2nd floor addition with 2 bedrooms and bathroom.
Originally there was no insulation in the walls.
Again in the 70's they blew some type of tannish powdery material in the walls.
Some of the house has continuous baseboard radiation and some has the original in the wall baseboard radiation (4 inch wide x 36 inches long baseboard radiation with a big 36"x36" metal cover)
Any way I really don't know which way to go.
I definitely want a gasification boiler.
I am going to leave my oil pig in place as a back up.
I dont have any storage for DHW with the oil.
I'm concerned of the climate here.
Its not that cold all the time. I start heating (very moderately) in late Oct early Nov
and go to about late april (again very moderately)
The boiler is running almost non-stop from dec to march.
it runs all summer and fall for DHW.
My concern is the fall spring and summer.
Will I do better with a storage system so I only need to burn once a day or every couple days.
Or will the wood gun do as they say it will and "turn on and off" burning the same amount of wood as a storage system will.
I am leaning towards the Wood Gun by alternative heat.
They say they don't require any storage for heat but they do for DHW.
I like the on/off feature.
The Wood Gun e100 in stainless is about $8,000 no storage required.
The Tarm solo plus 30 is about $8,000 storage is required and I haven't priced that out yet.
The Eko 25 is about $5,700 not to sure on the need for storage but will be an obvious cost.
The Bio MAss 25 is about $6,300 same as thing with the storage.
Seems to me that I can start out with a wood gun and no storage for 8k or get another brand with storage and spend the same or more.
Ultimately if I do go for the Gun I could always add storage later and hopefully not spend that much more then if i had gone the other way.
Maybe I'm micro managing and just need to go for it.
I know of no one who has a system like this locally and am looking for some opinions and experience.
please help