Just remember one thing, when the power goes out you'll be committed to making sure you keep a generator running, or no heat and worst of all a freeze up. I had a Woodmaster 4400 for 8 years then went to a Paxo 60 gasificatiion Boiler, 1600 gallons of thermal water strorage, did a shed for the storage and boiler, etc. Now I have a woodstove in my house and would never go back to what I had. Simple, power goes out I have heat, burn half the wood I use to, and no freeze up to worry about, or circulators going bad, water treatments, etc. Alot less stress. Plus I can even cook on the woodstove. Just my opinion. I love the simple life again. I use to burn between 10-14 cords with the furnaces I had. Now I burn 5 with my woodstove. Just food for thought.