I have no experience other than my current boiler, but it's an indoor unit (that shouldn't matter) and a "gasser" but I think that we're wrapping up this heating season and if I use all the wood that I've moved to the house I'll be at just over 5 cord. Now the load matters in everyone's fuel use, but we're heating a small house (1500 s/f) that's under (next to) the same roof as a 2432 s/f shop with 16' ceilings and 3 12x14' doors that leaks air around the whole perimeter - 105' total. My point is that I think the gasification thing is a good thing and as far as I know, is mandatory across the board and might be the answer. I know that there's some crazy high temperatures involved and that can be hard on the refractory material and it is a service item eventually. That would be my one of my questions ie; cost, service intervals and difficulty.
What I was trying to post was that I was hoping to achieve the same results as Brenndatomus folks. Sorry if I spelled the name wrong.
I have a Central Boiler that was installed in 2005 and has been pretty good burner. I have replaced a pump and a selenoid on it. Last week my 17 year old son came in from filling it and the water jacket had sprung a leak. We let it drain and cleaned it out. It was about halfway up the right side of the burn box and a third of the way back. I cleaned it up with a wire cup brush and it was almost a circle turns out it was one of the stiffener rods. I talked to the local dealer and he said the warranty wouldn't be worth much at this point. I called a local guy that runs a welding shop not far away. He came out and welded it shut for a hundred bucks. I have been happy with the boiler and have taken pretty good care of it, but I did think I would get more time out of it than I have the water jacket springing a leak is not a good omen for the future.
Unlikely. My neighbor had the same thing happen a year or two ago and it seems like once you plug one leak two more appear.
17 years isn't a bad run I don't think. Wood as a fuel I believe is or can be a lot more aggressive than dinosaur juice.
Makes you wonder how many years he heated for free after the savings paid off the boiler. Less the wood of course.
This is one dealers price list...lower than MSRP I'd bet...and he doesn't have the largest of the G series listed (the G10000) but its another $1500-2000 on top of the G7 price... https://www.heatmasterfurnace.com/price-list
Seems pretty close to MSRP...unless they had another price increase. Is your underground line good? That was the thing for my folks, the line they used the first time is not good...and there is a bunch of it between all the buildings, so that was a chunk of change on top of the boiler cost!
It is the original Thermopex installed in 2006 & hasn’t been disturbed so I believe it is still okay.
