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    What do you use for heat??

    Just a curious question. WE moved in to this house and it had steam heat.
    Radiators in all the rooms. I removed them and installed Central heat and air
    95%gas condensing furnaces. Cheaper to heat

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    gas furnaces at both the house and the shop..but I usually use the jotul wood stove during the day at home
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    gas though the price has been shooting up quite a bit.... I also use gas stove, hot water heater, and dryer....
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    Natural gas here, and unfortunately not the kind that I produce on a daily basis, or I'd be saving $$$.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shard92
    gas though the price has been shooting up quite a bit.... I also use gas stove, hot water heater, and dryer....
    Have you heard about HARDY BOILER?? It goes outside and you run lines to a coil to put in ductwork for Heat for house, it also has water heater built in
    and you pipe that to your water heater. You put wood in boiler, light it,
    It has a combustion blower that keeps fire burning. If you live in town
    it will depend on city rules. here We have two we installed in our small town around 40,000. In the winter you see smoke coming out of stacks, not too smokey

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    We don't really need a lot of heating here, I do have gas piped in, but only for hot water at the moment, the rest is blanked off (decrepit old wall furnace and oven when I got house, since removed). There's a reverse-cycle air conditioner in the living area if required, but I just leave a thermostat controlled electric column heater running in my bedroom to keep it a few degrees warmer than otherwise would be.

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    When it is cold I am happy. but when its is freezing (which happens maybe 3-10 days on a year) I am using airconditioner.

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    I use a wood pellet stove. It saves me a ton over what I used to pay for oil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xpuser357
    Have you heard about HARDY BOILER?? It goes outside and you run lines to a coil to put in ductwork for Heat for house, it also has water heater built in
    and you pipe that to your water heater. You put wood in boiler, light it,
    It has a combustion blower that keeps fire burning. If you live in town
    it will depend on city rules. here We have two we installed in our small town around 40,000. In the winter you see smoke coming out of stacks, not too smokey
    Some places around here are banning them because they smolder wood rather than burn it and they produce a lot of smoke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3fingersalute
    Some places around here are banning them because they smolder wood rather than burn it and they produce a lot of smoke.

    yeah this place is very restrictive and I have very little place to put it.... The land my house is on isn't even large enough to build a house on under the current zoning laws.....
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    I use a split system heatpump and A/C combination.

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