I used to love love love burning wood and when my wife started a greenhouse I was never going to use gas because it was way tooo much money to install and run so we bought an outdoor wood boiler.
well after 7 years of finding, paying, hauling, cutting and feeding a boiler every 3 hours to keep the greenhouse warm we put in gas.
it cost us $3000 for gas line and funace including a plumber and all permits to hook it up compared to the $10000 plus the boiler cost....
ok I can hear you saying " ya but pay the gas bill!!" well we got our gas bill today, it was $836 !!!!!! yes $836.
now I can return to the boiler and pay $2000 for 22 cords of wood and another $500 for help to cut and stack it plus whatever you think its worth to walk 156 feet in minus 20c cold to fill it every 3 to 5 hours .
so there it is my 2 cents on going from wood to gas.
I am not looking for a fight here but I have to say in the end I lost my yard to trenching in a boiler line and now a gas line , I lost many hours of good sleep stressed out wondering if the boiler is keeping up and I lost thousands of dollars paying for fittings , heat exchangers , pex, saws and painkillers for my back.
shayne
well after 7 years of finding, paying, hauling, cutting and feeding a boiler every 3 hours to keep the greenhouse warm we put in gas.
it cost us $3000 for gas line and funace including a plumber and all permits to hook it up compared to the $10000 plus the boiler cost....
ok I can hear you saying " ya but pay the gas bill!!" well we got our gas bill today, it was $836 !!!!!! yes $836.
now I can return to the boiler and pay $2000 for 22 cords of wood and another $500 for help to cut and stack it plus whatever you think its worth to walk 156 feet in minus 20c cold to fill it every 3 to 5 hours .
so there it is my 2 cents on going from wood to gas.
I am not looking for a fight here but I have to say in the end I lost my yard to trenching in a boiler line and now a gas line , I lost many hours of good sleep stressed out wondering if the boiler is keeping up and I lost thousands of dollars paying for fittings , heat exchangers , pex, saws and painkillers for my back.
shayne