I'm in the market for a home. The home will probably be older (70's or older) and may not have a fireplace, tradition or other. I have however heated my current home with a buck stove for the past 10 years and have grown to love the heat from a fire.
So this brings me to my current dilemma. I may be forced into buying a house that doesn't have a fireplace and if that's the case I know I'm going to need to buy one. I could always buy a regular fireplace and put a stove pipe up and call it good but I was thinking also about a boiler system indoors. I like the prospect of not having to stock it as often, heating my water with it throughout the winter month and not loosing as much heat as I would with a conventional fireplace.
I don't know how much these cost in order to buy the whole system and have it installed in a preexisting home. Does anyone have a ball park figure. I really wasn't wanting to hit more than 10k as I have a difficult time seeing the payoff there vs a convention fireplace which I'm fairly certain, though not positive, that I could get for much cheaper.
I was also curious about the amount of maintenance required for the boilers. With the conventional I know to clean the chimney and the fireplace box and I'm good to go. With a boiler I know it has many more parts than a regular fireplace which means more places for something to go wrong.
Does the boiler actually heat the water up for the house and does the boiler heat up an entire house, upstairs and downstairs? If so, hows that's work? I know for my current set up that I need a fireplace for both the upstairs and the downstairs in order for the entire house to be comfortable during the winter months.
If the electricity goes out and I don't have a back up will the water still be heated and the house still be heated or does it need some sort of electricity. Again, with mine, even if the power goes out I will still have a decent amount of heat due to a heat powered stove fan that sits on top of it.
Thanks for reading and helping.
So this brings me to my current dilemma. I may be forced into buying a house that doesn't have a fireplace and if that's the case I know I'm going to need to buy one. I could always buy a regular fireplace and put a stove pipe up and call it good but I was thinking also about a boiler system indoors. I like the prospect of not having to stock it as often, heating my water with it throughout the winter month and not loosing as much heat as I would with a conventional fireplace.
I don't know how much these cost in order to buy the whole system and have it installed in a preexisting home. Does anyone have a ball park figure. I really wasn't wanting to hit more than 10k as I have a difficult time seeing the payoff there vs a convention fireplace which I'm fairly certain, though not positive, that I could get for much cheaper.
I was also curious about the amount of maintenance required for the boilers. With the conventional I know to clean the chimney and the fireplace box and I'm good to go. With a boiler I know it has many more parts than a regular fireplace which means more places for something to go wrong.
Does the boiler actually heat the water up for the house and does the boiler heat up an entire house, upstairs and downstairs? If so, hows that's work? I know for my current set up that I need a fireplace for both the upstairs and the downstairs in order for the entire house to be comfortable during the winter months.
If the electricity goes out and I don't have a back up will the water still be heated and the house still be heated or does it need some sort of electricity. Again, with mine, even if the power goes out I will still have a decent amount of heat due to a heat powered stove fan that sits on top of it.
Thanks for reading and helping.