So, I have been running my quad 4100i for three years now. I don't really care much for it.
I'm a soft wood burner, mostly Doug fir and alder.
I can get 8 hour or so out of the quad. The issue is, wood is my only source of heat. I live in an older, leaky home with the only back up being electric base board heating.
For an experiment last winter, I shut the stove down and run just the electric heat for three weeks. My electric bill, usually 75 bucks in the winter jumped to 170!!
This year, my lady is living with me. But we both work during the day, I'm going to need to burn 24/7 during the winter, no more cold house.
If I'm using wood as my true only heat, and plan on staying here two more years, will the bk be worth it? I really want to be able to set it and forget it, something I can't do with the quad...
I'm heating about 1500 square feet downstairs, we don't use our up stairs so that's closed off, "another 1000 square feet there
I'm a soft wood burner, mostly Doug fir and alder.
I can get 8 hour or so out of the quad. The issue is, wood is my only source of heat. I live in an older, leaky home with the only back up being electric base board heating.
For an experiment last winter, I shut the stove down and run just the electric heat for three weeks. My electric bill, usually 75 bucks in the winter jumped to 170!!
This year, my lady is living with me. But we both work during the day, I'm going to need to burn 24/7 during the winter, no more cold house.
If I'm using wood as my true only heat, and plan on staying here two more years, will the bk be worth it? I really want to be able to set it and forget it, something I can't do with the quad...
I'm heating about 1500 square feet downstairs, we don't use our up stairs so that's closed off, "another 1000 square feet there