We heat our house 100% with wood. We have the Napoleon 1900p in the kitchen and our super efficient Napoleon NZ3000 ZC fireplace in the living room. We still heat our water with NG and also use NG for our clothes dryer, and I do have two NG furnaces in the house but we only have them for backup in case something goes would happen to either me or the wood appliances......
I use wood for 100% of my heat. No electric heaters! I do have an electric water heater (and appliances) though, and my electric bill had dropped to less than a 3rd of what it was. I average 285kwh a month vs about 1000kwh average when I had both propane and oil heat. Both the oil and propane systems were completely removed (by me)
Not to hijack the thread, but to those of you who heat your water with wood, I'm assuming this is done with an OWB? Or is there another setup that you have?
70% wood 30% propane. Jane has never wanted to feed the stove so when I am at work the heat will come on at times and hot water on demand gas unit. But my company has a propane gas devision so the cost is negligible.
100% wood unless I'm gone overnight. It is nice to have backup gas furnace for the occasional getaway.
Welcome to the forum Lone_Gun Good for you with 15 years off the furnace. We sold our furnace back in 1979!
Thanks Backwoods! Our furnace needs to be replaced, but I'd much rather burn wood. I enjoy the processing, the gathering, the whole lot! And as you well know, there's nothing like wood heat!
Probably 90% wood heat. The natural gas furnace only kicks on during the coldest of nights and in MN that's pretty cold.
100% here in southern md for me. Unit only kicks in if we are gone for more then a day. Take a look at this chart from my electric company. Probably think I am stealing power. Now granted it was much colder last december but still 78% less is great
Red, mine is done with an OWB through the use of a "side arm assembly. It consists of a tube in a tube. The bottom of the side arm receives from the OWB and is forced (by means of the circ pump) though the side arm exit at the top to continue on its destination of the water coil in the forced air furnace plenum, then back to the OWB. The bottom of the side arm is plumbed into the drain valve of the water tank and the top of the side arm enters back into the water tank where the old anode was located. The domestic water is circulated only by means of convection. That all! You would think (I did) that this would never keep up with hot water demand, but I have never been without hot water in all the years I have used OWBs!
LOL. I have more wood behind the barn and a bunch of ash trees and a giant hickory layed down in a woods about 2 miles from me.
The Woodchuck runs 100% of the time when I'm home. I only get about 4-5 hour burn out of it. I have a propane monitor that I leave on 60* when I'm not home.
