ehkewley said:
DexterDay said:
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Many are skeptical that I can heat my Entire 2,180 sq ft Ranch (70 ft long!) with just this stove... ON its Lowest setting. I only use low 24/7 except when it hits around 0*, or in the shoulder seasons (Now)
I now have the Englander 30-NC woodstove in the basement (Wife does laundry and I have a Bar/Man Cave downstairs). Just installed this year. Wow will this save me some pellets...
Also have a Pellet/Bio-Mass furnace... Will be installed this year also. But for 3 yrs, I got along just fine with the Quad and about 4 ton of pellets..
What made you decide to get a furnace? Will it be replacing the pellet stove?
The furnace will n ot replace a stove. The Quad will remain upstairs, the woodstove downstairs and the furnace downstairs and ducted into HVAC. Might not need the Pellet stoves to do so much work anyways. The woodstove is a MONSTER of a heater and I am figuring on at least 30% reduction in my consumption..
I bought the furnace for 2 reasons...
1. It was cheap. I bought it used and the previous owner had no idea about Cleaning or Maintenance. Used 1 season and he went to start it up (After burning 5 ton of pellets and some corn to boot) on the 2nd season and it was not running so hot. As soon as I seen it, I knew the problem. Got all the Duct Work he had, Backdraft dampers, and exhaust venting for $2,000. Which is a mighty good deal in my book. Got it at the end of last season.
2. The MAIN reason was My Wife was Pregnant last season with our daughter. Her room is the farthest away from the Quad. I was looking for another stove to heat either the basement and get some heat upstairs or a pellet furnace, to get some heat to her room.... Well after buying the furnace last season, I looked on this Forums "Articles for Sale" board and there was a Forum member that lived pretty close selling the woodstove.. Knowing that when and if we lose power, the stoves will not work... Talked the Wife into that stove also.
Also picked up the Englander 25-PDV last yr off of Craiglist for $300 (Came with venting and 21 bags of pellets). So I went from just the Quad at the beginning of the season... To the the Quad, the Fahrenheit, Englander 25-PDV, and Englander 30-NC.... All in the search for heat (For my Daughters room)... I found it.
My Wife jokes and says that snow wont come within 4 ft of our house. That there will be a ring around our home, because it will have gone nuclear., She jokes about it. But it saves us thousands every yr. $4,000 a yr in LP or around $800 a yr in pellets. This yr with the woodstove, hopefully less than that..