The answer to this question depends mostly on if you have some other heat source than wood or if you are 100% wood heat. When I was 100% wood I would burn a fire anytime the house temp was too low, had nothing to do with outside air temperature. Lots of fires with outside temperature above 60. Now that I have a minisplit the indoor temperature never gets too cold and the decision to burn is based on effort, cost, and the recreational enjoyment of burning.Why do you guys have mini splits and not a central system with ductwork?
Ours is a central system. I've known and seen good mini-splits since the late 1990s when traveling but they were not easily available in our region back in 2006. Only Sanyo models were sold in our area and not many at that. I was concered about parts and service down the road. The house had a propane furnace so I took that out and had a new American Standard HP system put in. This was the most efficient option at the time for a ducted system. I insulated the trunk ducts, plenums, and replaced all of the feeds with insulated flex duct. It's been running trouble-free since then.Why do you guys have mini splits and not a central system with ductwork?
1. I only have a 30 year old house we built, I wouldn't want to look at the pieces of crap hanging on the walls. 2. Efficiency or not they still use electricity you must pay for. 3. Heat from mini splits and heat pumps suck and aren't hot enough output for us. ....These minisplits are great. Super cheap to buy and easy to self install in an afternoon. System efficiency is very high.
every stick of wood you burn prevents an amount of purchased oil from being burned. So it doesn’t really matter what temperature it is outside so long as you need heat choose the cheapest.My house is circa 1890, large cast iron steam radiators fed with an oil boiler, just had a major kitchen/dining renovation and the contractor put in a ducted HVAC system in the first floor. Also the wood stove was put in the new construction. Now I have three different sources of heat, kinda bizarre ha. The idea with the stove in my house is to maybe run it on the weekends while I’m home mostly cause I like wood burning but if it helps keep the oil burner off that would be a plus. I’m not sure what temps I’m gonna run the stove at. Probably anything under 50 deg but this is going to be my first full season with the stove so time will tell.
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