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Plumbing / Re: Sizing a plate heat exchanger?

« on: February 05, 2015, 02:22:09 PM »

Thanks for all the help! Much appreciated.

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Fire Wood / Re: Wood Consumption vs. Application

« on: February 04, 2015, 09:00:33 PM »

1600 sq. ft ranch full finished basement. Boiler is 50 ft. from house, we burn from
September to May. Burning green oak we go through 8 full cord in a season. house is always between 75 and 78 degrees. From Northern wisconsin.

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Plumbing / Re: Sizing a plate heat exchanger?

« on: February 04, 2015, 08:12:25 PM »

So the plate heat exchangers do not have to be hooked directly into the water heater?

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Plumbing / Sizing a plate heat exchanger?

« on: February 04, 2015, 07:31:11 PM »

We heat our home with a central boiler outdoor stove. Currently we heat our water with an electric water heater. I am looking at getting a plate heat exchanger to heat our domestic water but i have no idea what size i would need.

Any help on this subject is appreciated!

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Basement heat help?

« on: November 11, 2014, 12:09:58 PM »

Lol at Slim!! The basement is very well insulated and I figured 100k btu would be plenty. There is only a $75 difference between the 50k and 100k. Figured I might as well go with the bigger one.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Basement heat help?

« on: November 10, 2014, 07:53:07 PM »

I will be heating an area about 900 sq.ft will 100,000 btu be big enough to accomplish that?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Basement heat help?

« on: November 10, 2014, 06:32:45 PM »

Just came acroos a 100k BTU hanging modine heater. I could also run this off a seperate thermostat. Any thoughts?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Basement heat help?

« on: November 10, 2014, 03:23:39 PM »

i just recently finished our basement and i am looking for heating ideas. We heat our house with a central boiler. The upstairs is plenty warm but the basement is a little chilly. I put 2 registers in the ceiling down there but it is just not enough to keep it as warm as we would like. I am looking into hydronic wall heaters and was wondering if anyone has experience with them? i was thinking about putting 1 or 2 of these in the basement and run them off a seperate thermostat. Any help would be appreciated.

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Electronics / Thermostat reaching set temp to quick.

« on: October 04, 2012, 03:09:01 PM »

Hi I have noticed that when my thermostat for my furnace reads 70 degrees and I turn it up to say 72 degrees it only takes a minute or two after the blower kicks on to get up to the set temp. Is that normal for it to get to temp that quick? I also need to mention that this thermostat only runs the blower on my furnace as i have an outdoor wood boiler and it is a digital/non-programmable type. I thought about trying one of the old style dial thermostats that have the heat anticipator adjustment on them to see if that would fix the problem or does that have nothing to do with what i am describing?  Thanks for any help!!

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Central Boiler / Draining my Central Boiler?

« on: September 10, 2012, 03:43:50 PM »

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it is neccessary to drain the water from your stove every year or couple years? I have had my central boiler for 6 years now and I have never drained and re-filled it. I've heard its good to do this and I have also heard its bad. Any help is appreciated.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Looking for low speed fan?

« on: October 07, 2009, 10:24:12 PM »

Hi everyone i am new to the site and i have a Central Boiler and i am looking at ways to get a more steady or constant heat from our forced air system and my idea is to install a low speed fan under the heat exchanger that i could turn on or off by a switch which would blow the hot air through the ducts. As it is already if you put your hand by the registers you can feel a small amount of warm air radiating out even when the blower is not running so my thought was to install a fan that would run at a very low speed and push that warm air through the ducts giving me a constant heat my problem is i cant seem to find a very low speed fan that might work for this unless someone on here might have some ideas?