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Tony Vidlak

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I know a lot of people on YT heat with wood.
So lets see what your wood stove , fireplace , boiler , heat source looks like.
Mine is an Englander double door airtight stove with a 2 speed blower 34" wide 30" deep 28" tall. I built the block off plate that covers the fireplace opening and ran insulated stainless chimney liner up the chimney , capped the top of the chimney and added an additional 48" of triple wall chimney pipe $380. in my chimney . I seen this sitting on a front porch with flowers on it 14 years ago , I stopped an asked the lady that lived there about it and ended up buying it for a $100. bill so I have $485. in my heat source. My house is small 1085 sq. feet ,one level , brick exterior ,no basement this stove has no problem keeping the whole place toasty. We have no other source of heat except for this stove
Tony
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here is my boiler, heats the water for the baseboard heat just like the oil boiler does, my house is approx 2500 sqft 2 story with basement, heats the whole house and keeps the temp 71 degrees pretty steady. the stove will take a 2 ft long log, and it has a pretty long burn time. I havent used any oil in about 2 winters.
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I think this old wood/coal stove is from around 1920.

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This old thing puts out a ton of heat and it heats my 2-story house pretty well all by itself all winter. It's about 110F where I was taking these pictures.

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It even has a built-in humidifier!

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This is is in the living room almost directly above it and there's another one in the ceiling right above this one.

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I love this thing, the only problem is I can't get fire insurance on my house until I get rid of it.
 
Too much litigation now days. I watch the News and know that other than the opening for the fire to draft, there isn't anything wrong with your setup. Houses were heated since we started this country that way and now its a problem! What next, they will say eggs are good for us... :lol:
 
I love them weasels of the insurance companies! Gases such as propane and LP have what for a flash point, yet wood is what they figure is an unacceptable risk? Remind me again of all the neighborhoods that must evacuate when they smell oak or hickory in their homes! Face it. Insurance companies are just harrassing those with wood heat as gas is far more dangerous to heat with. Was that a wood pile that recently exploded taking out a neighborhood on the News? Of course not. It was the higher insurance risk, gas.
 
Haha.

To their credit, the last time I was getting other insurance the agent told me I just had to replace the furnace with a more modern one that's ULS-listed. Has to have airtight seals so you can shut it down completely in case of a chimney fire. I just don't want to give this thing up for something that relies on electricity and needs refractory brick replacement. This thing hasn't needed a repair in almost 100 years and is probably good for another 100 :)

Also, you'll never find a more well maintained chimney/stove pipe than that at a guy's house who doesn't have insurance! If my house ever does burn down, it won't be from the wood heat.
 
The UL Approved label isn't worth the paper it's printed on. A manufacturer can get UL Approval for the right amount of cash in an envelope, whether or not they meet UL standards. BTDT!
 
An Elmira I took in a horse trade 20 years ago. Did the hearth and backwall myself, Metalbestos chimney.

I still have and use oil-fired hot water heat so no one has to get up and load the stove in the middle of the night, but I've cut my oil consumption by 70%.

Burn about 6 cords of wood a year in a 100 year old 1800 sq. ft. house.
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A coworker of mine has a Charmaster wood furnace in his basement. He took 2 days off this week to be outside cutting wood, chopping wood, hauling wood. He has a small house too, 850sq feet and the wood furnace is in his basement. Wood is the best heat source, constant heat lots of btus.
 
This is my Hearthstone Soapstone stove. I can keep my house comfortable and my backup gas furnace only comes on occasionally in the coldest weather.
This is the 7th winter and I have not had to clean the chimney once since I installed it.
I do burn well seasoned wood, mostly Ironwood (hop hornbean) along with maple, ash and both red and white oak.
In the back to the left is a "soapstone" with a handle.
How many remember these and what they were used for?
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We've got a Hearthstone soapstone like Brian's, except ours is a phoenix model,

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Nothing fancy, just a Wonderwood circulator in the basement of our 120 year old 880 sq ft house. It keeps the house very comfortable.

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Sorry no picture,daughter has not taught me yet..... We installed a combination wood/oil furnace 10 years ago when the old oil burner was outlawed. 90% of the first tank of oil is still there! Our house is a 1945 built 1-1/2 story model that is exposed to the wind in every direction but the furnace does an excellent job. We looked into an outdoor boiler which I really liked but couldn't swing the $I also had to consider that there was no back up to that system as there is with the combo rig, and if I were to sell this place the Outdoor bopiler may be a detraction to some people
 
Not much to look at, but it's served me well for 32 years. Bought it home made from a local guy for 120 dollars when I was 14.
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I had propane for heat when we bought our house (1200sqft ranch) 28 years ago. The first winter (end of Dec. on) it cost me +- $1800 for gas. Installed a Treemont airtight stove next summer and heated with wood for 10+ years. The good: a 1000lb tank of gas would last 3+ years (hot water and clothes dryer along with supplemental heat when stove went out). House was too warm (near 80* when the temp was above 10* with the windows cracked). The bad: in order to get the 8" triple wall chimney above 150 and keep creosote from forming, the stove temp had to be above 600*. Couldn"t stand it in the house a that temp. was good for one chimney fire a year. Didn"t bother me too much, but scared the hell out of the wife. Our volunteer fire dept. didn"t know how to deal with an airtight stove and a chimney fire (don"t ask me how I know). As soon as natural gas became available, I converted and never looked back. Removed the stove after a year of gas. Currently heat the house for $1800 a year and that includes heating a 24"x40"x8' insulated pole barn to 55*.
 
Pacific Energy stove--made in Canada. Heats living space of our home--not bedrooms or basement. 1400 sq ft home. We use about 4 cords per year. House built in 1993.
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tjdub---That furnace(?) is similar to the complete one we had in our two-room country school. Used to burn coal in it. Buddy of mine and I thought it might be interesting to see what would happen if we put a cup of powdered sulfur in the humidifier when the furnace was hot. We didn't even get upstairs fast enough before someone was racing downstairs to see what had happened. Talk about STINK !!
 
Brian---I like your stove! About your "soapstone"---Never seen one, but I would guess that it's used to deposit the ashes in---?
 
this is my timberline woodstove insert in my kitchen, I put it in 9 years ago,the fire place was a waste,it goes right threw from the kitchen to the living room, so i put glass doors on the fireplace, on the living room side.I bought the timberline used, and put a stainless steel liner in the chimminy. We use it in the fall and spring, when it gets real cold i let it burn out, and start the wood boiler.
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My Central Boiler and wood pile.

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Sorry for getting carried away.
 
Thank You for the help onefarmer. Between the new iPad and switching back and forth from modern to classic view I can really get things messed up.
 
Growing up we had a furnace like that in the basement, except it had the enclosure (jacket) around it, and a cage blower next to it that forced air thru ducts. It had an automatic damper that opened and closed the draft (both under the shaker grate and in the chimney pipe). We used about half wood and half coal.
 
WOW!! Nice pictures. Thanks for sharing. You've got some nice toys to make the work a little easier.

Dick
 
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Firechief 700 in the basement and hooked into ductwork. About 6 years old and no problems so far. Heating about 1800 sq ft plus the basement feels warmer. It has a thermostat upstairs but it just controls the blower for the firebox.
 
I don't burn wood anymore,but I want to go back to it with this gassification system. Everybody has them in Sweden. The wood shown in the rack will last a week at -20C. Thoger says he uses less than 2 cords all year for home heat and domestic hot water. It's just a small gassification boiler with insulated tanks to store all the water that's heated instead of wasting large amounts of wood when you don't need the water. They use solar panels along with it that heat water too instead of stupidly trying to generate electricity with them.
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That looks very interesting. Getting too wise to keep building the firewood mountain LOL. I have mine plumbed into my hot water heater and tied to my existing fuel oil boiler and heat exchanger in the air handler. Over the years the whole system has evolved into this oil boiler(backup), heat pump, and outdoor wood boiler providing forced air heat, air conditioning in the summer and hot water under floor heat in tiled areas. All is kept alive by a 16KW backup generator when needed.

Never have seen one of those gassification systems at work, always just sales pitches. When pressed to see one in operation by the owner the story changes real quick.
 
Dan,
I installed a Central Boiler for my son 3 years ago for his new modular home.
He has hot water baseboard and I built one of those "sidearms" for his electric hot water heater.
We put one of those garage heaters in the basement and control the fan with a 110 volt thermostat.
He burns a lot of wood but he is "toasty" warm no matter how cold it gets outside.
The basement is nice and warm too and a favorite hangout for him and his buddies. He has a kegerator down there as well as a pool table, TV and a bunch of band equipment including guitars drums and some heavy duty amps.
Don't ya just love wood heat!
 
It's his in Sweden. Here's a schematic on the whole thing. He had to translate it in to English for me.
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Not that complex when you really look at it. The coils are already in the tanks when you buy them. Basically you have water in and out from the boiler,in and out of one set of coils from the solar panels (sun on the schematic) and water in and out of a set of coils for domestic hot water. The expansion tank is just to take up space as the water heats. If it overheats and overfills the tank,it just blows out on the roof,simple as that.
 
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Looks very complex. I'll have to read up on it. I'm not familiar with the principal or system. Thanks!
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A schematic of my system would look impressive(more so than in reality) as under floor heat requires aqua stats to control water temp around 105-110 degrees. Also heat the garage with hot water through radiators. I have five pumps controlling the zones and several mixing valves. My heating contractor has reminded me several times that I could have had geothermal for what I have invested. What would I do with my toys then LOL.
 
Gasification stoves do require less wood than a conventional wood stove. But they are very finicky on the wood they burn and cleanliness. The wood needs to be very dry and the stove needs to be kept clean. There are air passages and what not that need to be cleaned out vquite often to insure that the stove can complete its "gasification" cycle.

A neighbor of mine has a gasification stove and he does burn less wood than my "smoker" stove. But he also has to clean his stove out weekly and clean out the air tubes and also keep his wood dry and make sure its seasoned.

My smoker required an occasional shoveling of ashes (often times once a month) and I often times cut wood in the morning and burn it in the afternoon. I burn rotten wood off the ground, burn construction lumber, and also lots of fresh cut aspen.
 
I have that same wood splitter, a speeco from tsc, or from farm and family center/ centeral tractor, years ago! Lol
 
Here's our Buck Stove #91 Catalytic insert. It heats our 1800 sqft home, and basement. We run the air handler for the heat pump to help circulate the air. The insert was installed with a stainless liner in '08 when we bought the home, and is our primary heat source from late November to March.

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This furnace came with the sheet metal jacket and "octopus" cover. I still have the top part in the shed. It was never a forced-air model though. Just radiant ducting. I think my Dad said he got it for free back in the 1960s just for taking humping it out of someone's basement for them. I'm sure it cost him at least a case of beer paying for the labor though. That heat exchanger on top alone probably weights 400lbs :)
 
Got it cleaned and re-loaded. Pellet Stove.
We can get away with less than a ton a year
here in Texas where our winter is milder than
some of you folks up north. We plan on using
a ton per year but 1 ton lasted me over 2
years this time. Used the last bag (40 lbs.) today.
Bought the bag of pellets in Dec. 2010. We've
had the stove for 6 yrs. That's the main heat in
our 1500 sq. ft. house. We have little ceramic
heaters for localized heat on an as needed basis.

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I have a modern coal furnace but and old coal burning range in my kitchen. I am coverd by State Farm insurance. They just wanted to see pictures.
 
(quoted from post at 01:11:03 12/30/12) I think this old wood/coal stove is from around 1920.
Hello. I have one of those wood/coal stoves. Do you know of anyone who wants one and do you have an idea what it s worth?
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This old thing puts out a ton of heat and it heats my 2-story house pretty well all by itself all winter. It's about 110F where I was taking these pictures.

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It even has a built-in humidifier!

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This is is in the living room almost directly above it and there's another one in the ceiling right above this one.

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I love this thing, the only problem is I can't get fire insurance on my house until I get rid of it.
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