I have spent the past week perusing this forum at great extent in my spare time associating myself with the many terms, nuances, benefits and drawbacks of the many systems used by the individuals that post/provide information on this site. That being said I would like to provide the following information for the benefit of those who may respond to this post;
Our family resides in Southern Ontario, we live in a 2000 sq. ft farmhouse that has average insulation, 26 new replacement windows, 4 new entry doors. In addition to which we would like to heat a 20 X 30 Workshop and household domestic water.
We currently use a FA Oil furnace supplemented with a Pacific Energy wood stove. We have an abundant woodlot here on our farm.
In addition to operating the farm full time, I work full-time away from the farm and my wife operates a home business.
I will carefully put the following question to this thread: Why would I want to complicate my life with a gasification boiler- somewhat complicated installation, operational teething problems, burn times, thermal spike issues, storage tanks, perfect wood etc, etc, etc.
I have multiple friends close-by that use Central Boilers and Heat More units with great success and niehbour friendly practices. =Dry wood, Little smoke, lots of heat.
Our fuel oil prices have increased dramatically as it has everywhere......My diesel tractors, chainsaws, log splitter and my labor all cost money. My wife and I are not retired. We are raising a family and VERY busy. So I am not completely convinced that the extra time that we would have to dedicate to perfect wood and babysitting a boiler is a good investment, all for the sake of the best efficiency.
We have not ruled out anything at this point. Cost of installation is not a factor. We have looked at the following systems:
Econoburn 150
Greenwood 100
Central Boiler - EPA Certified
Trane: Air to Air Heat Pump
Complete Geothermal Installation
If someone from the gasification world would like to constructively answer this post it would be greatly appreciated, as well any OWB users that first considered a Gasification unit.
Thank you in advance.
Our family resides in Southern Ontario, we live in a 2000 sq. ft farmhouse that has average insulation, 26 new replacement windows, 4 new entry doors. In addition to which we would like to heat a 20 X 30 Workshop and household domestic water.
We currently use a FA Oil furnace supplemented with a Pacific Energy wood stove. We have an abundant woodlot here on our farm.
In addition to operating the farm full time, I work full-time away from the farm and my wife operates a home business.
I will carefully put the following question to this thread: Why would I want to complicate my life with a gasification boiler- somewhat complicated installation, operational teething problems, burn times, thermal spike issues, storage tanks, perfect wood etc, etc, etc.
I have multiple friends close-by that use Central Boilers and Heat More units with great success and niehbour friendly practices. =Dry wood, Little smoke, lots of heat.
Our fuel oil prices have increased dramatically as it has everywhere......My diesel tractors, chainsaws, log splitter and my labor all cost money. My wife and I are not retired. We are raising a family and VERY busy. So I am not completely convinced that the extra time that we would have to dedicate to perfect wood and babysitting a boiler is a good investment, all for the sake of the best efficiency.
We have not ruled out anything at this point. Cost of installation is not a factor. We have looked at the following systems:
Econoburn 150
Greenwood 100
Central Boiler - EPA Certified
Trane: Air to Air Heat Pump
Complete Geothermal Installation
If someone from the gasification world would like to constructively answer this post it would be greatly appreciated, as well any OWB users that first considered a Gasification unit.
Thank you in advance.