Hello everyone, First time poster here from Ontario, Canada (1 hour north of Lake Erie) but I have been a member for over a year and have done alot of reading!
I am currently looking into an Econoburn 150,000 or 200,000 to heat our 2000sf home and shop.The house very well insulated, Spray foamed 2x4 walls (R20) and have R60 in the attic and the shop which is my woodworking shop 1200 sqft and is 2x6 walls with spray foam (R34) and the attic again has R60. The house will have a heat exchanger in the propane furnace and I will be heating the pottable water also ahead of our tankless propane water heater (hopeing to have the wanter heating fire minamally durring the heating season). My shop has floor heating in the concrete pad.
I am planning on having a minimum of 1000gallon storage tank. After talking to the rep at Econoburn he stated that I could easily run the 150,000 with a storage tank that size with no issues at all which would cut down on consumtion of wood.
Just wondering what you all would estimate on wood consumtion for my circumstances? I live in the middle of a 15 acre hard maple bush and have alot of wood.
Currently we heat mostly with wood in the house with an EPA wood stove and go thru 12 face cord per year. In the shop I currently head with a High efficency 80,000but propane furnace and go thru about $120 per month dec,jan,feb.
What do you all think? Just trying to figure out if its going to be worth it to swap over the gasification unit compared to what we currently have.
Thanks in advance...RyanB
I am currently looking into an Econoburn 150,000 or 200,000 to heat our 2000sf home and shop.The house very well insulated, Spray foamed 2x4 walls (R20) and have R60 in the attic and the shop which is my woodworking shop 1200 sqft and is 2x6 walls with spray foam (R34) and the attic again has R60. The house will have a heat exchanger in the propane furnace and I will be heating the pottable water also ahead of our tankless propane water heater (hopeing to have the wanter heating fire minamally durring the heating season). My shop has floor heating in the concrete pad.
I am planning on having a minimum of 1000gallon storage tank. After talking to the rep at Econoburn he stated that I could easily run the 150,000 with a storage tank that size with no issues at all which would cut down on consumtion of wood.
Just wondering what you all would estimate on wood consumtion for my circumstances? I live in the middle of a 15 acre hard maple bush and have alot of wood.
Currently we heat mostly with wood in the house with an EPA wood stove and go thru 12 face cord per year. In the shop I currently head with a High efficency 80,000but propane furnace and go thru about $120 per month dec,jan,feb.
What do you all think? Just trying to figure out if its going to be worth it to swap over the gasification unit compared to what we currently have.
Thanks in advance...RyanB