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Portage & Main / Re: Ontario
« on: March 10, 2018, 02:36:34 PM »
On my 4th season with a BL 3444 heating my 2600 sq ft ranch house +basement, also a 4car attached garage with 11ft ceiling.  I plan to build a barn and also heat it. It’ a great stove with no problems. I really like that you can unbolt the water jacket for future replacement. Good stove if you ask me.

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Portage & Main / Re: Upper door on ML30 rusted out; Update
« on: January 10, 2016, 09:02:30 AM »
Portage and Maine seems to be a really good company, how many years have you had your ML30?

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Portage & Main / Re: Upper door on ML30 rusted out
« on: January 04, 2016, 04:05:57 PM »
Just curious, what made you buy another portage and Maine if you only got 4 years out of the ML 30?.. I would think the should last longer than that..........

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Portage & Main / Re: Upper door on ML30 rusted out
« on: January 01, 2016, 05:25:48 PM »
Joks79, how many years did you get out of your ML30?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: GEO Thermal vs. Wood Boiler
« on: December 10, 2015, 05:23:18 PM »
Thanks for the reply's, makes me feel better about my choice. There is a lot of lazy people anymore, and having a wood boiler also keeps you in shape. There's just Somethin about heating your home with wood in my mind., and I dont mind how hot my wife keeps the house, and she loves that so that's a plus haha.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / GEO Thermal vs. Wood Boiler
« on: December 10, 2015, 04:27:15 AM »
I live in central Ohio, and just built a new house. 2600 sq ft with full basement (not finished yet) and a 1000 SQ ft attached garage with 11' ceilings in it that I'm heating. 2x6 walls and good windows. It is sealed up tight. I have had several people ask me why I didn't put a Geo Thermal in instead of a wood boiler. The reason I bought the wood boiler is because we have access to pretty much as much free wood as I need. I live in 20 acres so I had plenty of land to put the Geo in. I guess my question is should I have gone with the geo thermal? I'm young and enjoy cutting wood and doin the work.

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Portage & Main / Re: Ash depth on BL
« on: March 06, 2015, 08:37:16 PM »
I keep mine fairly low, but I also have OCD and rake my ashes/coals before I load it. I made a rake (looks like a bent pitch fork) and it works great. You can keep the ashes low as long as you load your wood consumption right depending on the temps and raking them often.

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Portage & Main / Re: Second guessing myself after the install
« on: February 16, 2015, 04:59:50 PM »
I was in the same boat as you when I was looking at these boilers. My thought was you can never go big enough,.. (With anything).. I'm glad I bought the 3444 even tho they told me the 2840 was big enough.. Like you said when the temps warm up outside I just barely fill it, but when it gets cold I load it up.. I feel like they should be more specific when they sell these units because there numbers are off when they say these 2840's can heat up to 4000 sq ft...

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Portage & Main / Re: Front door broke off on my BL 3444
« on: February 04, 2015, 05:46:35 PM »
Good to know., I will give them a call tomorrow.

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Portage & Main / Re: Front door broke off on my BL 3444
« on: January 29, 2015, 08:00:59 PM »
Ya for sure.. I am going to get new hinges tomorrow.. But I'm going to put grade 5 bolts in it.. Not self tappers. The door is a lot heavier than it looks, I'm supposed they put these cheap hinges on the nice stoves.

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Portage & Main / Re: Front door broke off on my BL 3444
« on: January 29, 2015, 07:36:31 PM »
The wind was blowin the way you shut the door also..

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Portage & Main / Re: Front door broke off on my BL 3444
« on: January 29, 2015, 07:34:03 PM »
I didn't just let the door go and fly open.. I set the latch and was putting my 4th log in and then the door just fell off..

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Portage & Main / Front door broke off on my BL 3444
« on: January 29, 2015, 04:59:44 PM »
So tonight I went to load my BL 3444, and as I was loading it my hinges broke off the the outside insulated door..... It is a little breezy but nothing that I would of thought to be concerned about the door.... These hinges are cheap.. Anybody else have this problem yet? And any ideas of what to do?

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Portage & Main / Re: What A419 Johnson control?
« on: January 14, 2015, 06:14:12 PM »
Was that a bad unit? Or something you did wrong? there is no point in buy a boiler if we have to replace it every 5 years.

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Portage & Main / Re: What A419 Johnson control?
« on: January 12, 2015, 01:04:29 AM »
How many years did you get out of your ML 30?

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