Hello all,
New to the forum, hope you're all well. I'm Daniel recently moved from a more urban location out to two acres surrounded by open farm land in a cute 1,400 sq ft farm house built in 1880, In rural Michigan.
It has been totally redone, especially all of the things you want to have redone, septic, well, furnace and base board heating upstairs, so nothing really scary. That is until when Amerigas first turned up to look at the tank, one of their drivers asked if we had ever had propane before, no we said, he replied with "well, it sucks!"
That's when I started getting a bit scared. So here's our setup, we have a nice high efficiency furnace on propane that serves heating the not so huge downstairs and all three bedrooms upstairs are base board, no registers.
My goal is two fold, I want to limit propane as much as I can but aren't too fussed in the winter if the downstairs is a little nippy at night, worst case the furnace uses a bit, during the day though I want us to heat it with wood. Any bonus that goes upstairs would be great but we're realistic, we bought an old farmhouse, we're not getting 70 degrees in winter up there.
The second goal is the stove has to have something special about it. The other half once I informed her of the clearances involved in these things, wasn't too keen on a typical glass front one, so by luck on Facebook marketplace I found a Godin.
Now I have done some research, know that they're really for coal etc. But we don't have a massive living space and they are gorgeous. I found one and plan to restore it this year, but with no chimney hookup, there is one behind a wall I want to utilize, I really want to plan the install perfectly. Any suggestions really? Feel free to ask me anything.
Picture of it as of now (picking it up on Thursday) and our house.
Cheers all.
New to the forum, hope you're all well. I'm Daniel recently moved from a more urban location out to two acres surrounded by open farm land in a cute 1,400 sq ft farm house built in 1880, In rural Michigan.
It has been totally redone, especially all of the things you want to have redone, septic, well, furnace and base board heating upstairs, so nothing really scary. That is until when Amerigas first turned up to look at the tank, one of their drivers asked if we had ever had propane before, no we said, he replied with "well, it sucks!"
That's when I started getting a bit scared. So here's our setup, we have a nice high efficiency furnace on propane that serves heating the not so huge downstairs and all three bedrooms upstairs are base board, no registers.
My goal is two fold, I want to limit propane as much as I can but aren't too fussed in the winter if the downstairs is a little nippy at night, worst case the furnace uses a bit, during the day though I want us to heat it with wood. Any bonus that goes upstairs would be great but we're realistic, we bought an old farmhouse, we're not getting 70 degrees in winter up there.
The second goal is the stove has to have something special about it. The other half once I informed her of the clearances involved in these things, wasn't too keen on a typical glass front one, so by luck on Facebook marketplace I found a Godin.
Now I have done some research, know that they're really for coal etc. But we don't have a massive living space and they are gorgeous. I found one and plan to restore it this year, but with no chimney hookup, there is one behind a wall I want to utilize, I really want to plan the install perfectly. Any suggestions really? Feel free to ask me anything.
Picture of it as of now (picking it up on Thursday) and our house.
Cheers all.
