drifter7
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...your houses?
I have propane in a 100 year old house. Pre-buy for propane this year was at $2.299. Last year I used 1691 gallons, 300 of that in my shop. So that would be almost $3200 just to heat my house this year, plus $700 for the shop.
Well thanks to mother nature throwing hail stones at my house, we got new siding. Ee decided to side the whole house. I used foil backed fan foam and polar wall vinyl siding, which is foam backed. Plus I wrapped all the windows and facia in Aluminum. Looks great and with the window treatment, I should cut my heating by about 40%. The siding company guarantees 30% or they will pay 1 months heating bill.
I also invested in one of these which should bring my propane usage down to about 300 gallons a year.
Now I gotta buy a bigger chainsaw.
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RIGGS1
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gas
I'd still like to add the pellet stove but now even that is becoming unaffordable compared to a couple years ago.
Brother inlaw was telling me about a wood stove that you add to your furnace; uses the same duct work etc...
I grew up w/ a wood burner (Buck stove) and hope to hell I never see one again in my lifetime.
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RIGGS1
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really don't matter this year, ain't gonna get any snow or cold 'til March
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drifter7
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RIGGS1 wrote:gas
I'd still like to add the pellet stove but now even that is becoming unaffordable compared to a couple years ago.
Brother inlaw was telling me about a wood stove that you add to your furnace; uses the same duct work etc...
I grew up w/ a wood burner (Buck stove) and hope to hell I never see one again in my lifetime.
That is what this one does Riggs. You install a plenum in your furnace, and it runs hot water from the wood stove boiler through the furnace. You still have propane for backup.
I paid $6500 for the stove, plus $1200 for the install kit. The stove should pay for itself in 3 years, included the added expense of cutting wood.
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Icehole
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our gas comes underground thru da woods in a plastic pipe dat was easily accidently cut wit a shovel...den I put in a pressure relief line offa it to da shop cause it seemed ta be alot comin out fer such a small tube....always thinkin safety
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carrottop
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Dift if you bought an outside wood boiler shouldn't you beable to heat your house with just that?
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BadCompany
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Gas from Semco Energy, Electricity from DTE Energy, DirecTV and the internetss from Comcast...anything else???
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RIGGS1
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I kinda do the same thing Ice, only I pipe in off my neighbors line cause he always brags about how well his house is insulated, so I figure that should even things out a bit.
I hate the word plenum for some reason.
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RIGGS1
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drifter7
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carrottop wrote:propane
Dift if you bought an outside wood boiler shouldn't you beable to heat your house with just that?
If your gonna buy a chainsaw buy the best saw on the market.^^^^
Yeah, but I still heat the shop with propane, and in the summer my water heater will need some gas.
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