Milestone.........for me

You're too kind!! You know it actually looks better in the picture than if you're standing on it!!! There's a POS rental house about another 30 feet behind me in the picture; and the creeping charlie is invading my yard from there!!! Plus a cool rainy fall helps too!!

 

That's than impressive stack of wood - looks good from afar, and WTFGAS what it looks like it'll burn, and keep you warm

 

LOL basod I can get by just fine with one year ahead. I enjoy giving Backwoods Savage a hard time. He my friend. LOL. Besides, if I cut 15/16 and 16/17 this winter it will only be about 18 cord I have to cut and split.

 

Gas if I was in your boat (which is the way I'd go if I ever build a house) - I'd be stacked out for a year -2 at most.
Much rather have radiant floor heating and an indoor stove when I feel like it

 

I added in floor heat in concrete floor when I remodeled an old apartment into the garage. Awesome. Just awesome. The rest of the house already had the baseboard though. If I ever build again it will prolly be on one large slab with in floor heat from a boiler with a wood stove for back up and a real nice fireplace insert for heat and ambiance.

 

MW - well done! It takes a lot of work but it is worth it. I'm 4-5 years ahead now, but it took me years to get to that point. Just get a little further ahead each year. And those stacks look awesome! I wish mine looked half as good as that! Good work!

 

Dennis I'm talking from the standpoint of going to a gasification furnace for my main heat source. You guys up north have a much longer row to hoe than myself
Yes it would be a huge cost to add radiant heat to a house down here when you also need to install central air.

Now you've got my wheels turning for a heat exchanger in the central air duct. I already have returns from the stove room into the AC ducting(helps even things out when I get excited in shoulder season)
A new heat pump is going in when the mortgage is paid, provided my 34yo AC unit keeps going for a couple more years.

Crazy swings in temps here during shoulder season - 86F yesterday and the high tomorrow is forecasted at 65F

 

I have put a lot of those in new and existing systems and they work quite well although they aren't quite as even of a heat as the radiant systems.

 

Not that I plan on doing this right now, but what kind of HTX have you used? I'd think a standard A-frame Coolant coil would work plumbed to a (closed loop system with separate HTX at outdoor boiler) or just straight from the boiler?
I'd be a bit overkill on water chemistry if I ran a boiler for the house