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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: explain this
« on: January 21, 2016, 10:59:44 AM »
Have you checked your door seals? Make sure you pull the ash drawer out and check the entire seal also. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Outside insulation
« on: January 12, 2016, 09:16:10 AM »
That's a slick setup Schoppy! Would you mind posting a picture of what it looks like on the inside?  Just curious... I bet it's nice and toasy in there to load it.  :thumbup:

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HeatMaster / Re: How full is full?
« on: January 12, 2016, 09:13:18 AM »
I fill mine to the bottom of the door opening also. One stack in the back and one in the front.  I think I could get away with a 200 for a portion of the season but I don't think it would be enough today.  It's 9 deg. outside with 40-45 mph gusts.  The North side of my house is freezing!!! My shop uses about half the heat that my home does.  One day I'll rip the drywall and plaster out and put new windows and spray foam in but until then I'll just have a cold living room....  :bash:

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Jan 10
« on: January 10, 2016, 08:53:02 AM »
0 deg F here this morning with 30mph winds.  Our first taste of winter this year. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: garage heat loop
« on: January 06, 2016, 02:41:16 PM »
Start storing liquid stuff in your garage then you'll have a reason to always have it warm!  :-)

I have a line running to a hanging blower, and the blower is on a thermostat.  I leave the water pump running all the time, and keep the temp in the garage to around 68 or so, 24/7.  I love having a warm garage to walk into any time, and to park my truck in it and have all the snow melt off it and I leave the windows open to rid the humidity inside the truck.  Second year doing it this way and it's worked great.

There's nothing better than a warm garage! 

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I have thought about doing this as well.  If I did it, it would be set up as a complete backup.  I sometimes have to travel for work and I hate to leave the wife with the responsibility of keeping the stove loaded. I would rather pay for propane for a week than put the burden on her.  I keep an eye out for used propane boilers on Craigslist in case I find a good deal.  They can be had for around $500-$1000. I have a propane tank for the garage heater so I could hook it up to that without any problems.  My boiler is my only source of heat in the house though, so it would give me peace of mind. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Large heat loss issue??
« on: January 04, 2016, 11:32:15 AM »
Are you sure the readings you are getting in the house are accurate?  It seems strange that you are losing that much heat from the boiler to the house if you don't have any snow melt with the lines just sitting on the ground. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: YTD usage 15/16
« on: January 04, 2016, 09:20:47 AM »
Gone through 2.25 full cords in 1.5 months.  Heating 2200 sqft house and 1620 sqft shop.  House is 72 deg all the time and I keep the shop anywhere from 60-70.  I am using the same amount of wood to heat both my shop and my house than I did just heating the house last year with my 5000e.  I just added about 12 inches of blown insulation to the shop on Saturday so I am hoping that should make a pretty good difference in my consumption. 

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Hardy / Re: Couldn't be more of a Newbie. :)
« on: December 30, 2015, 09:02:05 AM »
I have an H 5 Hardy that I installed my self last year. They are real simple to run. I would first figure out what model you have. There should be a plate in the top left corner with that info on it. Also first thing I would do is check for leakes. If it has frozen up and cracked you can forget about it.

Freezing would be my main concern.  Is the furnace still full of water?  If it is full of water, there is a good chance that it has been frozen before and might have cracks in the water jacket or cracks in the underground piping depending on how deep it's buried.  Really the only way to find out if anything is wrong is just to fire it up and see what happens.  You probably want to drain and replace the water if it has been sitting for several years.  Is it all hooked up and operational inside the house? 

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HeatMaster / Re: Loading every 8 hours
« on: December 30, 2015, 08:24:15 AM »

I use the very best 5 wrap on the market (from Zsupply in Muskegon, Mi), so heat loss is minimal in my 95' run.

Z-supplys new double walled tile looks promising. Saves the hassle of sliding a wrapped inside either PVC or another tile.

It's good stuff.  I've put in about 500 ft of it.  Very easy to work with also.  It's obviously not as durable as Logstor or Rehau but I think they have a great product going for them. 

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General Discussion / Re: Christmas Eve - Motorcycle Weather?
« on: December 30, 2015, 08:22:29 AM »
We had our second child back in January which is the reason why we put 2 (yes, two) miles on the Harley all summber.  I started the bike, rode it down the road and came right back and parked it.  It's pretty depressing, really.....

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General Discussion / Re: Stupid snow
« on: December 30, 2015, 08:19:19 AM »
Sounds like a pretty good record to me Roger!  I've had several close calls in the winter months when the roads were bad.  It seems like it's always harder to drive in town when it gets nasty than it is on the country roads out by my place.  Glad everyone is ok!

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Central Boiler / Re: Edge
« on: December 30, 2015, 08:12:05 AM »
How about some pictures, Pointblank  :pic:  I have yet to see a cut out diagram or any up close pictures of these units.  The CB website doesn't give much information on the Edge. 

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HeatMaster / Re: G400 Observations
« on: December 24, 2015, 10:22:37 AM »
Thanks for all the info, Marty.  I recently sarted adding two seperate rows of wood in my G400 like you mentioned above.  I put one in the back and one in the front and only fill it no higher than the bottom of the firebox door.  I have found that it burns much better this way and recovers a LOT faster.  I think the main difference is having a good coal bed that covers the entire length of the slot in the bottom of the firebox.  If I only added one row directly over the slot, there was a small portion of the slot that would be exposed in the front and back of the stack of wood that allowed air and smoke to make it's way into the secondary chamber without passing through the coal bed first.  This resulted in more smoke than normal exiting the exhaust.  I think with a G100 or 200, a single stack would work just fine but since I cut my firewood in 16-18" pieces, it's not long enough to cover the entire slot.  I keep both rows seperate to allow each row to burn and settle independently of eachother.  So far I haven't had any issues with bridging and it creates a nice coal bed that covers the entire bottom of the firebox.

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Portage & Main / Re: 110 thermostat questions
« on: December 23, 2015, 06:16:07 AM »
can a guy hook ... lets say a squirrel cage  fan to these thermostats ?

Sure can.  You can wire up a series of switches to allow the use of all the speeds also. 

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