Anyone use renewable fuels to heat their home?

[ALLWAGONS]

Thank Goodness! some people shouldn't be!('')

[madmike]

Kicking this backup,,,My New Neighbors heating bill (Propane)was $900 last month we installed a wood furnace yesterday Their gas furnace never kicked back on Even if they Buy the wood it we be cheaper then propane. now They need to learn how to 'feed the stove' Cheers,Mike
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[iamdonquixote]

have a jotul woodstove stuck in a fireplace.

been buying and scavenging

^^ normally don't transport wood with bus tho

enjoy splitting by hand. Cut up a dead black birch on my property , very nice wood, also got some black locust from a neighbor


heated with firewood growing up and was glad to take a break from it but finding it pretty good way to heat house and keep active.

[madmike]

I've hauled wood to Hunting Camp with my Bus too,, Jotul is a fine stove
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[BIGMIKEY]

Anyone use a heat pump?

Mike T
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BIGMIKEY

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[busdaddy]

I put one in my shop this winter, although it's a little easier on the electric bill than the electric baseboards it still costs $3-$6 bucks a day to run on colder days, add some serious arctic wind and it jumps to $10.
I still build a fire in the wood stove whenever I can, that cuts the bill down to $0.

I am looking forward to cooling things off on crazy hot days this summer though, regardless of cost.
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[Da TOW'D]

I installed an Air to Air mini split heat pump and have not needed to build a wood fire in our basement furnace.
Going on 2 years we love it. Before installing the HP we burnt 6 cords of wood a year.
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[BIGMIKEY]

Mine is a Mitsubishi mini split. Got it 12 years ago. My main heat is oil forced air. Only when outside temps get below 15°F I go to the furnace. At temps above that it heats my entire 2 story home. Electric bills are about 30% higher December - March. But the extra I pay for those months is still less than a tank of fuel oil. It air conditions as well as heats and will freeze you out.

Mike T
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[skills@eurocarsplus]

wow, old thread

I never did do the outside wood boiler. House is efficient enough it just didn't make sense.

Average year we usually do 1 330 oil tank (they only fill it to about 300/310 gal or so) for heat and hot water.

Worst year to date has been about a tank and 3/4. FWIW the house is about 2,800 sqft

I have to say after living in a house built in the 30's (although gutted and renovated before I bought it) I don't think I'll ever go back to living in an old house again, or one that hasn't been built with spray foam insulation.
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[oprn]

We have a natural gas boiler that heats the whole house. I also installed a coal and wood stove in the basement and if I use it religiously it will cut our heat bill in half. We burn about 3000 to 4000 pounds of wood per winter. Mostly we burn local poplar and some Manitoba maple which is all that grows here. I also burn a bit of coal at night. just a small shove full so that there are hot coals to restart the fire in the morning.

I have a home made barrel stove in the garage/work shop that I used in the past but it is very hungry, took an hour to make the garage comfortable and most of my time was taken up tending the stove. This fall I tied the garage pad into the boiler in the hose (I poured the PEX into the floor years ago) and the difference is amazing! Before even with the barrel stove going and the air temp at 75 - 80*F you were cold from the knees down. Then if you had to work under the car you were laying on a - 30* concrete pad! Now I use about 1/4 of the wood in the barrel stove just to top up the temperature in the garage.

The problem now is that the natural gas fuel bill almost doubled! When I am working in the garage all day the fire in the house goes out. I need to build a heat exchanger into the barrel stove that will transfer heat into the house when I am in the garage.

I have yet to buy wood, all the local farmers here are happy to have me clean up the dead wood on their property. Coal here used to be $38 a ton and that much would do us 4 winters. I am almost out of is so we will see how much it has gone up now with all the new taxes!
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[Jon Schmid]

[skills@eurocarsplus]

[Xevin]

[oprn]

[Abscate]

So true!

Southern California thinks you call a. Restaurant when go Out to eat, In and out,

Meanwhile, in Northern California, some idiot put a phone, music player , and browser and crammed them into one device.
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[calvinater]

[Jon Schmid]

[oprn]

Funny thing is I have been eating hamburgers for over 60 years, never heard of an "IN and OUT". Is that the burger joints you get diarrhea at? Their burgers go through you like greased lightning?

Had 3 teenage grandsons over last week so I took advantage of the energy to dig the wood splitter out of the 5' snow drift. Then we split up a couple cords of wood for next winter.
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