Wood furnace…perhaps not
Long story short. Was going to replace my cracked Quadrafire with a wood furnace as the appliance must go in the unfinished basement. Checked out many of them and even queried here and Hearth .com about a couple but received next to no answers. As I am a bit of a karma person, I took this as a sign of maybe not getting a furnace. the more I read up on them, the more of a pain they seem to be. I do not think I want to deal with adding ducts as my house is hydronic, dealing with blower motors, dealing with computers, having to move ash away just right etc,etc. I just want to chuck wood in and go back upstairs. I use 5-6 cord per year.My house stays at 65-68* when its in the 30's outside. When its like 6* outside, The house will not get above 60*. I'm about to insulate the sill plates and the wall behind the stove. I'll throw on the oil heat to supplement around 7-10 times per year and I do not mind any of this. Quadrafire wants to give me a new 5700 to replace my old one. The stove shop will give me a credit for anything I want to buy including a Blaze King Princess. Some say the new Quads do not throw out as much heat as the old ones. Whatever I get needs to be a convection type heater as i have a hood on the stove. I guess I want simplicity more than anything else but I'd like to get a clue on which units send less heat up the chimney. The old Quad did a creditable job. Do I take a new one or might there be something better?
Long story short. Was going to replace my cracked Quadrafire with a wood furnace as the appliance must go in the unfinished basement. Checked out many of them and even queried here and Hearth .com about a couple but received next to no answers. As I am a bit of a karma person, I took this as a sign of maybe not getting a furnace. the more I read up on them, the more of a pain they seem to be. I do not think I want to deal with adding ducts as my house is hydronic, dealing with blower motors, dealing with computers, having to move ash away just right etc,etc. I just want to chuck wood in and go back upstairs. I use 5-6 cord per year.My house stays at 65-68* when its in the 30's outside. When its like 6* outside, The house will not get above 60*. I'm about to insulate the sill plates and the wall behind the stove. I'll throw on the oil heat to supplement around 7-10 times per year and I do not mind any of this. Quadrafire wants to give me a new 5700 to replace my old one. The stove shop will give me a credit for anything I want to buy including a Blaze King Princess. Some say the new Quads do not throw out as much heat as the old ones. Whatever I get needs to be a convection type heater as i have a hood on the stove. I guess I want simplicity more than anything else but I'd like to get a clue on which units send less heat up the chimney. The old Quad did a creditable job. Do I take a new one or might there be something better?
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