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I have a pretty high efficiency tankless boiler so it would be expensive and wasteful to switch at this point. It is possible to buy a wood fired boiler and hoo
by endisneigh 4y ago
I have a pretty high efficiency tankless boiler so it would be expensive and wasteful to switch at this point. It is possible to buy a wood fired boiler and hook it up to the house to supplement the tankless but I'm skeptical that makes financial sense.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoI'm a bit confused since I thought you were talking about hooking up a wood fired furnace of some type. Putting a solid fuel boiler in line with an existing system is pretty common and doesn't have any impact on the system as a whole efficiency wise except for a tiny bit of heat lost to the length of pipe in the boiler when it's not in use but if you don't mind turning valves on and off you can avoid that with some simple plumbing. When I say boiler I'm talking about the heating part of the unit btw, the tank itself is generally separate if you have one at all.
- endisneigh 4y agomy understanding is that a wood furnace is meant to be used with wood pellets or properly seasoned wood. using random rotting decaying dead wood outside probably wouldn't be a great idea - I'll need to look into it more.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoOk, yes that's true, if you burn wet, green or rotten wood it's going to make a lot of smoke. Wood really begins to rot after the first year if it isn't cut, split and properly dried. If you have deadfall around you that you want to use then you need to process it into firewood as quickly as possible and store it somewhere it won't stay wet.