Ok so 5 yrs ago a built our dream home which is a 2600 sq ft Cape style home with an attached 2 car garage. The house is set up with a condensing boiler fired by propane and high cap baseboard, my DHW is supplied by the boiler and resides in an Oventrop 80 gallon dual element storage tank. We also have a 2 flue chimney right up through the center of the house, right now the 1st floor flue is taken up with our Hampton HI300 which does a pretty good job of keeping our house warm ( until the thermometer hits below zero ) and in the basement sits a Shenandoah woodstove which I only burn during power outages ( eats wood like a pit bull on a pot roast . Oh and in case you are wondering the dual element storage tank for my DHW was going to be setup for solar but I am not convinced it is worthy of throwing money at and would like to pursue an indoor boiler in an attempt to get our propane usage down to next to nothing in the winter months. We burn 933 gallons of LP a year for heat, DHW, clothes drying, cooking, and 4-5 cords of wood a year.
I have been researching indoor wood boilers and at a loss for which direction I should go in, I do know I want a gasser. Any idea's? And how would I make use of the heat exchanger sitting idle on my water tank?
I also have a huge basement and plenty of room for water storage but would probably get setup and run just the boiler for the first year.
I have been researching indoor wood boilers and at a loss for which direction I should go in, I do know I want a gasser. Any idea's? And how would I make use of the heat exchanger sitting idle on my water tank?
I also have a huge basement and plenty of room for water storage but would probably get setup and run just the boiler for the first year.
