OK, so we are back to planning our build in our "big old stone barns" in the French countryside
I don't want to hijack
@ChuckDay thread, but then starting a new Tulikivi thread seems not in order yet, so...
When I was posting last winter, we believed we could demolish and rebuild our barn ruin, but local gov't and meetings with our project manager/ general contractor (it is a different approach here, in France, where the Maitere D'Oeuvre manages the build and finances). I was demoing the roof of the ruin...got about 2/3 done and was told to stop. Turns out new legislation I was not aware of says that if there is no roof; there is no building. That was not the situation when we bought the place and have had to go into admin mode to regain our change of use that we previously had.
Further, the Maitre D'Oeuvre informed us of much higher taxation on rebuilds as compared to renovations (15-20% higher tax).
So, we are working out floorplans and exterior grading and building positions. The buildings are pretty large: two buildings which are each roughly 30M x 6.5M with potential for two levels everywhere.
In amongst all that, really the heating is system is of paramount focus before setting the floorplans in stone.
We plan on having some large spaces, yet there are audio concerns due to my wanting a critical listening workstation area (mix studio), a live (music recording) room which will be a library/ dining room/ meeting space as well, and a separate cinema.
So, how to heat all the spaces without open plan? We will have two separate households as well, so two big soap stone Tulikivi in each kit/ great room is a consideration.
And then a pellet/ wood furnace for hot water central heating? It would be a shame to lose the wood burning stove, I probably should have a couple of those. And there will be exterior covered firepit area too as we will be adding a lot of covered porch and balconies as it rains
a lot here.
I have wood, but not
that much wood. I have a couple oaks which must be topped this coming spring, so even more oak coming in. But that won't last forever. I do also have a friend who need to take down a lot of sick trees on his property which will probably add to the stocks as I'll likely help him clear. And I have a lot of firewood from the roof demo. Burning less in the Tulikivi seems like an efficient approach, yet I've heard (from the vendor) the Tulikivis only want some quick burn fuel like pallet pine. I have a lot of hardwood to burn too. Hence the furnace idea.
I'm interested in all opinions here. I'm looking forward to decommissioning the Pandero...and might install it correctly somewhere in the building.