Ok - I will try to make a long story short.
My wife and I are looking to purchase my mothers large farm house through an ugly divorce/court deal....not 100% how this will work yet - very complicated....but we have a chance. It is a 3000+ sq. foot farm house from 1865, remodeled and has old-school cast radiators and a boiler (I put a Chapee wood/coal/oil in last winter for her)....
I came a cross a spectacular deal and bought a Tarm HS 4.0 brand new from someone who never installed....this is slated to go into that house....if we get it.
Now - if we dont get to buy the house - I have a few choices - we are going to stay where we are.....we totally remodeled the place over a few years time - we love it here, but I won't pass up a chance to move into a huge old farm house...
The Tarm is a bit big for this place and we are not set up for radiant heat.... I just installed a St Croix SCF-050 here and its a bit small....
SO if we stay here, what would you do if you were me:
1.) I convert over to radiant heat, and put that big arse Tarm in.... Keeping in mind I will add space and a garage w/ loft that I could use as a dump zone to keep out of constant pilot
2.) Keep the forced air, install the Tarm and put an air/water heat exchanger in the duct work
3.) Sell the Tarm, keep the SCF-050 and put a pellet insert in one of my fire places to balance out the heat
4.) Sell the Tarm and the SCF, get a bigger pellet furnace
Any input would be helpful. I'd prefer 1 because I am a geek and really want to burn that Tarm.....but,,,,maybe not the most practical decision.
Thanks
My wife and I are looking to purchase my mothers large farm house through an ugly divorce/court deal....not 100% how this will work yet - very complicated....but we have a chance. It is a 3000+ sq. foot farm house from 1865, remodeled and has old-school cast radiators and a boiler (I put a Chapee wood/coal/oil in last winter for her)....
I came a cross a spectacular deal and bought a Tarm HS 4.0 brand new from someone who never installed....this is slated to go into that house....if we get it.
Now - if we dont get to buy the house - I have a few choices - we are going to stay where we are.....we totally remodeled the place over a few years time - we love it here, but I won't pass up a chance to move into a huge old farm house...
The Tarm is a bit big for this place and we are not set up for radiant heat.... I just installed a St Croix SCF-050 here and its a bit small....
SO if we stay here, what would you do if you were me:
1.) I convert over to radiant heat, and put that big arse Tarm in.... Keeping in mind I will add space and a garage w/ loft that I could use as a dump zone to keep out of constant pilot
2.) Keep the forced air, install the Tarm and put an air/water heat exchanger in the duct work
3.) Sell the Tarm, keep the SCF-050 and put a pellet insert in one of my fire places to balance out the heat
4.) Sell the Tarm and the SCF, get a bigger pellet furnace
Any input would be helpful. I'd prefer 1 because I am a geek and really want to burn that Tarm.....but,,,,maybe not the most practical decision.
Thanks