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I originally installed the EKO 40 with the intention of heating both my house and my future shop. The future shop will be 32x48 with 2x6 walls, well insulated, about 60 foot from my boiler shack. My concern is i'm not sure if the EKO can heat both buildings because when its below 20 degrees outside I have to fire my boiler every 8 hours. I have 500 gallons of storage but it only extends my heating time by 4 hrs when its cold out. The boiler does seem to be able to increase storage temp very slowing when the house is drawing heat off it. My thought is that if I would fire the boiler every 4 hours it could heat both. I would mostly be using the building after work and some on the weekends. So only 3-4 hrs at a time. I plan to let it go cold and then heat it to 55-60 degrees so its comfortable working in. My house is 3700sqft and I believe the heat load to be 70k-90k btu when its in the teens outside. Im coming up with this number because i have a 90% 100k btu furnace that runs almost constantly when its in the teens outside. I'm debating if I should just put in a wood stove cause it would probably be cheaper and a lot easier, although i like the idea of heating with the fire I would have going anyway and not smelling the creosote inside the shop. Shop will be stick built, not pole barn.
I wanted to add that I run my fan speed at 70% (newer controller) I suspect that if I run it at 100% I would get more output?
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I originally installed the EKO 40 with the intention of heating both my house and my future shop. The future shop will be 32x48 with 2x6 walls, well insulated, about 60 foot from my boiler shack. My concern is i'm not sure if the EKO can heat both buildings because when its below 20 degrees outside I have to fire my boiler every 8 hours. I have 500 gallons of storage but it only extends my heating time by 4 hrs when its cold out. The boiler does seem to be able to increase storage temp very slowing when the house is drawing heat off it. My thought is that if I would fire the boiler every 4 hours it could heat both. I would mostly be using the building after work and some on the weekends. So only 3-4 hrs at a time. I plan to let it go cold and then heat it to 55-60 degrees so its comfortable working in. My house is 3700sqft and I believe the heat load to be 70k-90k btu when its in the teens outside. Im coming up with this number because i have a 90% 100k btu furnace that runs almost constantly when its in the teens outside. I'm debating if I should just put in a wood stove cause it would probably be cheaper and a lot easier, although i like the idea of heating with the fire I would have going anyway and not smelling the creosote inside the shop. Shop will be stick built, not pole barn.
I wanted to add that I run my fan speed at 70% (newer controller) I suspect that if I run it at 100% I would get more output?