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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: too big?
« on: March 03, 2014, 03:44:55 PM »
I got advise on the blower motor settings and after making those changes I have been able to get my owb up and going. Still working thru some of the newbie problems but all and all its going good.
ffbare: A boiler was out of the question because of the cost. Before any of you boiler lovers tell me to look for used ones, etc. I did my research and the cheapest one in my area was $2000 more than what I spent on the one I ended up buying. I also didn't want to have to worry about water leaks. The way I look at it is when youre looking to buy a new car and they have all those added bells and whistles, well, the more extras you have the chances you have with something going wrong. I just wanted plain and simple but efficient. I hope my problems didn't discourage you from choosing a forced air owb. Remember, tho, you could have problems with either one you chose.
ffbare: A boiler was out of the question because of the cost. Before any of you boiler lovers tell me to look for used ones, etc. I did my research and the cheapest one in my area was $2000 more than what I spent on the one I ended up buying. I also didn't want to have to worry about water leaks. The way I look at it is when youre looking to buy a new car and they have all those added bells and whistles, well, the more extras you have the chances you have with something going wrong. I just wanted plain and simple but efficient. I hope my problems didn't discourage you from choosing a forced air owb. Remember, tho, you could have problems with either one you chose.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: too big?
« on: March 01, 2014, 07:56:28 PM »
That is a good idea. But at this point, I am so frustrated. It seems like I am taking another trip back to Menards or Lowes or Homedepot, looking for this or for that. I feel like I'm being nickel and dimed to death. I'll probably change my mind by august. 
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: too big?
« on: March 01, 2014, 07:28:49 PM »
Thanks for all your help. Thats what we have been doing. I guess we will be trying to get the company to help us out on trading this one in for one that will work for our house. When it comes down to it, we ordered this one on the assumtion that it was rated to heat 2000-3000sf as it was described but arrived to us rated for 2500-3500sf. We only need to heat 2200sf. With the prices of LP this year, we were hoping that we didn't have to fill our tank again this year but we have had to. The rep from the company said it would be ok for our house but I just wanted to get the real experts' opinions.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: too big?
« on: March 01, 2014, 07:13:56 PM »
No 
We thot of the same thing but our barn or even our garage is too far away from where the owb is.
We thot of the same thing but our barn or even our garage is too far away from where the owb is.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: too big?
« on: March 01, 2014, 07:00:18 PM »
Its controlled by a thermostat and if we set it at 70 degrees it heats up to 75 + and thats just burning 1-2 logs at a time. We get a good fire going but we are unable to set our draft dials to what the instructions say they should be set at without the fire going out. If we load it up like they tell us we should be able to do, smoke rolls out the chimney or heats up the house too hot. We are going out every half hour to put a log in it just to keep it going. We've taken our chimney down and cleaned it out. We've add another 3' to our chimney thinking it might be a draft problem. Our chimney is now 10' and higher than our roof but didn't make a difference. We've rerouted our ducts in the house wondering if we had our elbows too close to being a 90 degree. That didn't make a difference. We're out of things to change and wondered if it's possible that the unit could just be too big for our house.
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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / too big?
« on: March 01, 2014, 06:24:13 PM »
We have a forced air wood furnace and was wondering if its possible to get one thats too big for our house. We have 2200 sf between our main floor and basement. We ordered the furnace that was rated for 2000-3000sf but when it came, the box said it covers 2500-3500sf. Assuming that it was a typo on the box, we went thru with hooking it up. That was 3 weeks ago and we still haven't been able to get this furnace to run right. We've been working with the company and they have been very nice about the whole thing. We've tried everything to get it running right but have gotten so frustrated with that we are ready to make the company take it back or just take to the nearest junk yard to get some money back. Any suggestions from any of you 'seasoned' wood burning guys? 
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