Ok, so here's my story. I'm on my 7th season of burning wood in my central boiler, and while looking up some things for a different projest, I stumbled across this place and have been reading up ever since. I had no Idea. I totally fell victom to Central Boilers marketing. So, this spring, I will be buying a gasser.
My last straw with my OWB is the consumption. In this wonderfull weather that we are having this winter, I am going through roughly a cord a week. A little less when the winds are down. I haven't burned any fuel oil in about 6 years. I am doing about a 1,400 sq ft, old, uninsulated, single pained windowed farm house. I planed on adding my 30x30 ish pole barn to my heat load in the fall (after insulating). The boiler and possibly the storage will be in the garage.
There are also plans to start remodeling the house, one room at a time, but does not have a start time yet. It will be time and funds dependant, and both those things hindge on my wifes employment status.
I'm looking indoor gasification boilers some where in the $6,000 range, boiler only. It looks like the 45kw, or 150,000 btu range seems like it should fit my needs. I am really liking what I am seeing from the Attack dpx boilers, but I am not sold on anything yet, and would like to have any usefull advice that anyone here has to add. As far as storage, goes, I am looking around. I am a HVAC service tech / pipefitter by trade, and have a couple friends with full blown welding shops, so, I'll make something work. I'm shooting for the 1,000 gallon mark, but I'm not too sharp on the storage concept yet, so I'm open for sugestions there.
So, constant run times of the boiler makes for high efficency rates, and storage allows the boiler to achieve that, correct? And Gasifiers need wood at about 15-20% moisture in the wood to run anywhere near correctly. Other then that, what is going to be different then my OWB? What do I need to know to get the sizing close?
And does anyone have a decent guess at how much all this will cut my wood consumption back ?
Anyways, Sorry for being a little long winded there, and thank you for this forum that you have here, It is a wonderful resource.
My last straw with my OWB is the consumption. In this wonderfull weather that we are having this winter, I am going through roughly a cord a week. A little less when the winds are down. I haven't burned any fuel oil in about 6 years. I am doing about a 1,400 sq ft, old, uninsulated, single pained windowed farm house. I planed on adding my 30x30 ish pole barn to my heat load in the fall (after insulating). The boiler and possibly the storage will be in the garage.
There are also plans to start remodeling the house, one room at a time, but does not have a start time yet. It will be time and funds dependant, and both those things hindge on my wifes employment status.
I'm looking indoor gasification boilers some where in the $6,000 range, boiler only. It looks like the 45kw, or 150,000 btu range seems like it should fit my needs. I am really liking what I am seeing from the Attack dpx boilers, but I am not sold on anything yet, and would like to have any usefull advice that anyone here has to add. As far as storage, goes, I am looking around. I am a HVAC service tech / pipefitter by trade, and have a couple friends with full blown welding shops, so, I'll make something work. I'm shooting for the 1,000 gallon mark, but I'm not too sharp on the storage concept yet, so I'm open for sugestions there.
So, constant run times of the boiler makes for high efficency rates, and storage allows the boiler to achieve that, correct? And Gasifiers need wood at about 15-20% moisture in the wood to run anywhere near correctly. Other then that, what is going to be different then my OWB? What do I need to know to get the sizing close?
And does anyone have a decent guess at how much all this will cut my wood consumption back ?
Anyways, Sorry for being a little long winded there, and thank you for this forum that you have here, It is a wonderful resource.