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Portage & Main / Re: Blog: Sloppy's P&M Ultimizer BL 34-44 Installation Thread
« on: April 03, 2014, 08:17:44 AM »
Your install is very informative to those of us newbies what kind of setup do you have inside maybe some nice pictures that when you get to it 
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Portage & Main / Re: Heat load help
« on: April 03, 2014, 08:11:54 AM »
Haha exactly sloppy! My brother in law has an indoor wood boiler outside in a shed, his only for of heat, and he's well over 10 cord probably closer to 12 and his neighbor has an outdoor boiler(not sure what brand) he had 2 semi loads burned up at least a month ago from what I've heard. I guess that's why I want to make sure I don't go to small on the boiler and I will be building another garage/shop, nothing huge but maybe 36x40.
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Portage & Main / Re: Heat load help
« on: April 03, 2014, 07:55:29 AM »
Yes I'm still sitting at 20% in the tank but that is only due to running space heaters so I didn't have to fill up at 5.59! Can't win with space heaters either because out electric went from under 100 up to $300 I think the house is fairly well insulated we just had so many days of -15 highs and -20 to -30 lows, I'm talking probably over 30 days like that. Oh and the house located in a pretty open area lots of wind, I don't have a chimney either.
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Portage & Main / Re: Heat load help
« on: April 03, 2014, 06:27:13 AM »
I forgot to mention the furnace is a Heil 90+ efficient 75,000 btu
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Portage & Main / Re: Heat load help
« on: April 03, 2014, 06:20:46 AM »
Slim we just bought the house last Sept. this was our first winter in the new house so my fuel amounts are based off of since we've moved in. There was 30 percent in the old propane tank, we used that right away ordered propane from a different vendor due to price shopping used 500 gallons in 2 months roughly. Now here is my favorite part, basement radiant heat is heated using the old water heater trick, not efficient and not to code around here so I didn't heat the basement this winter so that stayed at 40-45 degrees. It's cold up here in MN and I'm done with going to gas company and having them tell me to use electric heaters cause their propane went up to 5.59 also want to heat the garage and leave it at 65-70 degrees 
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Portage & Main / Re: Blog: Sloppy's P&M Ultimizer BL 34-44 Installation Thread
« on: April 02, 2014, 08:11:18 PM »
How's the install coming along sloppy!? Keep posting pictures 
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Portage & Main / Re: Heat load help
« on: April 02, 2014, 06:02:10 PM »
Can you help point me in the right direction Slimjim?
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Equipment / Re: Gas to oil ratios
« on: April 02, 2014, 01:14:47 PM »
Jack72 could you fill us in a bit more as to what stihl saws are professional grade saws because they all begin with MS now?
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Portage & Main / Re: Fire Brick
« on: April 02, 2014, 10:24:35 AM »
From what I understand the BL comes with a clean out tool maybe almost like a garden hoe, someone will correct me if I'm wrong!
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Portage & Main / Heat load help
« on: April 02, 2014, 06:25:40 AM »
So I'm trying to figure out the heat load on my house, maybe Slim can help!
Ok so the house is 2500sq ft two story walk out with 1 basement wall buried maybe 3-4 feet into a hill the rest slopes down to the walkout, upstairs is forced air and the basement is all radiant in floor. The house is layed out 30x40 with a small 10x10 mud room addition. So far I tried to use a free heat load calculator online and came up with around 55,000 btu per hour, how accurate that is I have no idea and and how much insulation in!the ceiling is a mystery. I also want to heat a 30x30 two car garage domestic hot water , and in the near future a hot tub. Now it gets very cold here talking many nights of -20 to -30. Any recommendations on what BL model I would need?
Ok so the house is 2500sq ft two story walk out with 1 basement wall buried maybe 3-4 feet into a hill the rest slopes down to the walkout, upstairs is forced air and the basement is all radiant in floor. The house is layed out 30x40 with a small 10x10 mud room addition. So far I tried to use a free heat load calculator online and came up with around 55,000 btu per hour, how accurate that is I have no idea and and how much insulation in!the ceiling is a mystery. I also want to heat a 30x30 two car garage domestic hot water , and in the near future a hot tub. Now it gets very cold here talking many nights of -20 to -30. Any recommendations on what BL model I would need?
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Heatmor vs Portage & Main efficiency?
« on: April 01, 2014, 08:09:39 PM »
So just call Brian at P&M? I'm actually only 225 miles from Piney
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Heatmor vs Portage & Main efficiency?
« on: April 01, 2014, 06:54:39 PM »
Slim when you say let Brian know who I am what exactly do you mean sorry if that's a dumb question I'm still new to the site besides browsing for hours on end but I'm here now to stay!
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Heatmor vs Portage & Main efficiency?
« on: April 01, 2014, 06:02:42 PM »
Pick the one you think looks the best I know a lot of people that swear by their Heatmor, too many variables in wood consumption to get an exact answer unless someone out there traded a Heatmor for the new BL. I'm personally going to be buying Bl because I like what I saw in person and everyone around me has Heatmor, CB, or heatmaster and I like to be just a little different! P.S. I will have lots of questions for you Slim!
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Portage & Main / Re: Blog: Sloppy's P&M Ultimizer BL 34-44 Installation Thread
« on: March 31, 2014, 04:01:30 PM »
I'm new to the site but plan on buying the Bl 34-44, very nice job posting your progress