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[coolidge]

Has anyone figured how long it took you for your boiler purchase to pay itself off? I figured mine at two years.

[AirForcePOL]

I bought my first stove used and had $1500 in the entire system.  It paid for itself about 2 times the first year.

I'm guessing it will take me 5 years for my new stove to pay for itself.  If I figured in heating my 1600 sq ft garage it would be even faster but I didn't ever heat it all the time with propane. 

[dirtdigger]

I bought a whole new system and boiler when I did mine, just out of sheer luck, I was heating with lp gas at the time in a rented house, had nothing contracted for price on lp gas and gas price shot up to over four bucks a gallon, we did the math and I paid for mine in five months the very first winter, I had originally figured it to take me five years.   

[slimjim]

Mine took 2 1/2 years, show me another alternative energy that has 95% of it's buyers that will tell you it payed for itself in less than 5 years, Imagine Solar thermal, wind , pellets whatever having that sort of record and then look at how our big brother supports those industries with our stolen money all the while over regulating our industry.  OK calm down Slim Jim, it's to early in the morning for a stroke!

[Jwood]

You are correct though slim!

[dirtdigger]

Wood requires requires a few words nobody in public office wants to utter, its called "physical work".   

Imagine what life would be like if anyone requiring heating assistance would get a free wood furnace instead of dollars for heating assistance?

Anything requiring any form of physical labor is going to be considerably cheaper than other forms of alternative energy that only requires a person to write out a check and no physical labor is really ever involved, thus if you really understand how they system works, its no surprise they reward those who don't have to work, and tax and penalize those that do work, how would welfare ever survive if it were the other way around?    Just an observation.

   

[Homerglide]

My setup will break even in 4 years. That includes $1700 in oak logs purchased. From here out I will harvest from a 12 acre lot while clearing a cottage site. Love the thought of free fuel and any house temp desired. Just say no to propane!

[Roger2561]

When I bought mine, i figured it would take about 2 to 3 years for a turn around in investment.  I'm approaching my 4th heating season.  Roger

[ijon]

Put all the members of congress out cutting wood. Then they might know the feeling good hard work and contentment . Something most of them have never felt.

[coolidge]

We couldn't get congress out in the woods cutting, they couldn't agree how it should be done, plus there busy spending OUR money.

[jrider]

3 years

[1ELVIS]

My payback will happen when the house is warm enough for my wife to walk around in her underwear or even better I'll make it warm enough for her to take those off too. 

[mlappin]

My payback will happen when the house is warm enough for my wife to walk around in her underwear or even better I'll make it warm enough for her to take those off too. 

 

[slimjim]

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[CountryBoyJohn]

For me, it depends on how you calculate the savings.  My first winter in my house I was at 67 during the day and 63 at night.  Frozen.  My first winter with my stove, I was 74 during the day and 71 at night.  If you take into account running my furnace at 74 degrees before my stove and use that as a basis of savings, I saved $3,000 my first winter.  If you compare dollar for dollar, it was more like $2,000.  Additionally, the winter before I got my stove was very mild.  Last winter was nuts.  So, I'm looking at anywhere from $2,000-$3500 in savings per year.  That puts me at a 4-6 year payoff for my $12,000 system.