With that many rooms, maybe get one of each.
Four stove plan
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I've got a 42' run from the kitchen door to the proposed parlor stove.
The future Elm wood kitchen stove would have to serve those duties.
2 hours ago our power went out. The furnace was pronounced DOA. Luckily power was restore in an hour or so.
It brought my mind right to this thread. "I wish I had 3 of those stoves going right now!" I was concerned with temps in single digits most of the day. We barely broke into 11* and that went downhill as soon as the sun started to set.
If worse came to worse, at this point in time. I'd have to borrow a generator. Pull the plug and insulation out of the ole downspout drain that used to feed the cistern. I'd much rather have the four stove plan over any generator.
It brought my mind right to this thread. "I wish I had 3 of those stoves going right now!" I was concerned with temps in single digits most of the day. We barely broke into 11* and that went downhill as soon as the sun started to set.
If worse came to worse, at this point in time. I'd have to borrow a generator. Pull the plug and insulation out of the ole downspout drain that used to feed the cistern. I'd much rather have the four stove plan over any generator.
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Tough call. Ashford will win on long burn times, if it's going into a place where you might want to stretch out 24-hour burn cycles, but the T5 will win on never having to replace a catalytic combustor ($200/ea.). I suspect that in terms of overall quality and durability, the two must be damn-near on-par. I guess Ashford has the advantage of BKVP being active on this forum, he's a good guy to know, if you ever have trouble... which you probably won't.
On burn time, I reliably hit 30 hour burns on my Ashfords, no sweat. With careful loading of very high BTU woods, I can keep cat on edge of active up to 36 hours, on occasion. That's really only useful for situations when you find heat load is less than anticipated, and you want to turn way down to avoid overheating the house, without stalling the thing and fouling the chimney. But most of the time, I just ran the thing on 24 hour cycles, so I could time my reloads for each evening after work. Now that I work from home, I just run it to keep the room at 73F, careful reload timing be damned.
In Italy there are many models with very high efficiency,
it is the ideal system,
inexpensive, if you want to see the flames and heat all the rooms thoroughly
I am failing to see the relation to a "hydronic" chimney. I think you are referencing a radiator as a stove?
I have no inclination to buy a stove for all the rooms as mentioned above. I was just joking. There is no 1 stove, or even 4 stoves that will heat this house alone....ever. There are to many rooms, and two main hallways.
This thread is about supplemental heat, shoulder season heat, or emergency heat.
Now I realize I didn't understand well.
Anyway I meant "boiler fireplace"
that is a fireplace with a water exchanger, connectable in various ways..
but that requires electricity, so it can't be defined as emergency.
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Yes that will be my main central heating source. An outdoor wood boiler (OWB), or more correctly called an out door water heater.
I will be converting, slowly, from forced hot air to radiant hydronics.
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