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[homelite]

Does anyone else out there have a 4030 model and how many sq.ft. do they heat.

[ryan4030]

I have a 4030 and I heat about 800 sq. ft.  My house is built of concrete block  with foam insulation and vinyl siding on the outside. All of my smaller  windows are new insulated ones but my 2 large picture windows are old single pane so I lose some heat through them.  I have never checked any temp. drops but the burner works great.

[ryan4030]

Does anyone one else with a 4030 think they should have got a larger unit? To heat my house I fill 2 times a day plus a few small pieces in the evening. I desperately need a garage and building one is in the future but I don't think it will be a good idea to heat it with the 4030. Especially with the extra circulator and digging for the supply lines. The 4030 works great and I have no complaints about it . If anyone else has a 4030 let us know your thoughts about it. Thanks

[homelite]

Ryan, I have a 4030 C.B. I heat 1250 sq.ft. with it . I have to fill it every 12 to 16 hrs. depending on the outside temp. I live in northern mi. I have a pole barn and garge but had no intention to heat them. I dont think the stove could handle anymore without shorter burn times . I love the boiler. Do you have creasote dripping out the bottom of the door all the time ? I do and I cant figure it out. I burn 2 yr. seasoned hard wood. My boiler is set at 180

[ryan4030]

I know what you mean about the creasote dripping but mine doesn't do it all the time. I have mine set at 180 too, over the last summer I set it at 170 and it worked just fine to heat my domestic water.Mine seems to do really well on slab wood also which I think is prettty good. Before it got to be 20 degrees and the wind blowing 40mph everyday I had burn times of 16 hours on the  slab wood . It was all hardwood ,mostly ash. It burns really good but you have to clean it out more often because all of the bark on the slabs seem to make more ashes quicker. That could all be my imagination ,but that is the way it seems.Thanks for your reply.

[Scott7m]

You can drop your boiler temp way on down in the summer and still pull plenty of heat for your DHW.  It's been 0 - 10 here a lot of nights and my aquastat is on 158 with an 8 degree swing.  I've got 112-115 degree air out of my registers and my DHW is really hot with a 20 plate exchanger.  Until 0 weather hit I had my boiler set at 150.  It was doing fine, I went up 8 degrees to see if it made a difference, I cant tell that anything changed to be honest.