anyone every remove outdoor unit and is feasible ?

[jeanw]

since we wont recover any money prob from all the money spent on purgatory house.
we are debating removing the outdoor burner that also heated our water and having it installed here
We know it may be a selling point ..
Tired of tending fire here every couple of hours... Im cold. wasn't cold with the outdoor unit. Hubby tend THAT unit once or twice a day..
Hubby...he put most of it in himself all but the inside coil.. and tying in a special unit. that controlled one or the other.
Course that house(Purgatory house) had duct work with a propane outdoor combo furnace and ac...
In this HOUSE we have several min splits here... but with the one tall ceiling in the LR it doesnt do the job...
Its okay with the Ac part but not the heating part. Propane is so expensive and so is electric.
anyone thoughts? and we ae SIX yrs older too...
thanks y'all

 

[fbelec]

sounds like a lot of work. even tho you would have to spend some money would it be easier to buy a bigger woodstove so you don't have to tend the fire every couple of hours.

 

[jeanw]

sounds like a lot of work. even tho you would have to spend some money would it be easier to buy a bigger woodstove so you don't have to tend the fire every couple of hours.

It is a big unit. A zero clearance we bought and put in ourselves. The "Silhouette"by Energy King...

(broken link removed to http://www.energyking.com/manuals/silhouette-2800-user-manual.pdf)

. Hubby even had the surrounding area "stoned"" up to the ceiling with built in bookcase cabinet on each side,,,The LR does have tall cathedral ceiling

 

[fbelec]

after reading your original post again it sounds like what you are running now is to small for the house. feeding the fire and feeling cold you'll have to either get a new stove for this house or bring back the outdoor boiler. either way ya hafta change something.

 

[maple1]

Do you have a ceiling fan in the tall stove room?

Outdoor boilers have huge appetites, and are prone to springing leaks especially used ones that have been sitting. I would look at doing something else, personally. But you didn't say what it was exactly and how old and what shape it was in and how long its been sitting and what would be involved in moving and reinstalling it - etc. etc. etc.....

Good underground piping is $10+/foot - and I wouldn't use anything else but the good stuff. That's just for starters.