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    Building a house, want a gasser, advice needed

    Below is what Noah described, again: ihookem, you don't seem to go into much detail other than to say "... the best insulation job a guy could...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 14, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Building a house, want a gasser, advice needed

    This whole thread started out with someone who is planning on building a new 2200 sf house and heating it with a gasification boiler. Many figures...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 13, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Building a house, want a gasser, advice needed

    Absolutely. The 1998-1999 New Hampshire Forest Products Market Report shows split cordwood, delivered going for $80-120, so the price has roughly...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 11, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  4. pwschiller
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    Building a house, want a gasser, advice needed

    I've seen 0.33 air exchanges per hour as a recommended minimum for a house to be healthy to live in. It's not an exact science I'm sure. It will...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 10, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Building a house, want a gasser, advice needed

    Every additional $5000 that gets rolled into a 30 year mortgage at 5% interest amounts to roughly an additional $320 in annual payments. Where I...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 10, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  6. pwschiller
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    Building a house, want a gasser, advice needed

    Hi Woody, I timber framed my house in Freedom, NH about eight years ago. The frame is wrapped with SIPS (structural insulated panels). We have a...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 9, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  7. pwschiller
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    Laddomat 21 Presentation

    You can get the Laddomat 21-60 and the 21-100 (up to 120kW model) from Brian Crawford, http://www.upnorthenergy.com I have a Laddomat 21-100 that...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 27, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    EKO 80 overheating

    I'm by no means an expert, but I did borrow a 1st edition of John Seigenthaler's Modern Hydronic Heating through interlibrary loan. Even the 1st...
    Post by: pwschiller, Mar 2, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  9. pwschiller
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    EKO 80 overheating

    From Modern Hydronic Heating: For example, a Taco 008 pump curve crosses the following points: 0 GPM @ 15.2 Feet, 10 GPM @ 8 Feet, and 14.6 GPM @ 0...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 15, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Anybody Heat A Small Greenhouse?

    It's something I'm considering down the road. I plugged values into a heat loss calculator:...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Anyone Seen/Heard of the Taco Bumblebee Pump?

    Thanks Eliot. I'm pretty sure I understand your diagram and I like the simplicity of it. In my case, I think that it would make more sense for me...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 11, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Anyone Seen/Heard of the Taco Bumblebee Pump?

    I don't know anything about the Bumblebee, but I've been trying to come up with a good way to pull only as much hot water off the top of the tanks as...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 11, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  13. pwschiller
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    EKO 80 overheating

    Where are your expansion tank(s) attached? From Modern Hydronic Heating:
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 10, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  14. pwschiller
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    Why is everyone down on non gassers?

    Even the generalization of all non-gasification OWB as "smoke dragons" isn't necessarily fair. I thought that the picture that I posted answered...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 10, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Insulating Below-Deck Dry Radiant

    I'm wondering what the best methods are for insulating between or underneath the floor joists when you have radiant tubing below the subfloor to heat...
    Thread by: pwschiller, Feb 8, 2012, 1 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Why is everyone down on non gassers?

    I just went to the Hawken website and found no mention of the GX10 being a gassifier. In fact, under the "How it Works" tab it has the following...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 8, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    UPS Battery Backup Problem

    My old UPS probably pure sine wave is NCR 4072-1400-7194. I cannot locate a manual or specs for it. The UPS with modified sine wave that I'm using...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 3, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    UPS Battery Backup Problem

    Jim, I'm curious what make and model your UPS is? I have one that I am planning to use, which got me wondering whether it would work. It claims to...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 3, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Efficiency misconceptions........

    That was my thinking as well. An efficiency rating difference of 3-5% didn't matter to me so much, it came down to ease of use. Also important to...
    Post by: pwschiller, Feb 1, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Just ordered an Effecta, boy the wife is gonna be mad

    I've spoken to two Effecta owners who have their systems running, one with a 35kW in Michigan and the other a 60kW in New Hampshire. Both of them...
    Post by: pwschiller, Jan 31, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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