Welcome to the board! That is the problem with a wood stove, it is difficult to move that warm air from the source to the outlying rooms. Having an outdoor wood boiler ( or water stove as my Hardy says on the name plate) can allow you to operate your heating system in the house just as if you were using oil or gas. How it would work in your system is simple. Your wood boiler would be outside, you dig a trench and place insulated pex piping in the ground which carries the hot water from the stove into your home. At this point you would place a water to air heat exchanger into the supply plenum of your heating system which would take the water from the incoming pex piping, flow it through the water to air exchanger and then send it back to the wood boiler outside to be reheated. Your thermostat in the house would be hooked to your fan on your heating system only so that when it calls for heat it will turn on your forced hot air fan for the home without turning on your oil or gas furnace, push air through the water to air heat exchanger and exchange that nice hot 180 degree water and move it throughout your house. Some down sides to the outdoor wood boiler in comparison to the stove is that if you purchase a non gassification model you will be going through most likely 8-10 cords of wood or more. Gassification model wood boilers go through less wood but are about 3-4000 more expensive. I know that Taylor and Hardy are somewhat popular down there but they are very antiquated as far as technology goes for non gassification stoves. Look around the forum and see which boiler you like, talk to scottm on here or slimj. Both are dealers and very knowledgeable. If you look around on Craigslist you should be able to find a used boiler for 3-4k or buy a new one for 7k plus. Good luck.
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