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Originally Posted by svxistentialist
Last phase will be to replace the oil burning boiler outside with a more modern wood pellet burning furnace. Joe  |
I knew of a household in Vermont that had an outside-boiler arrangement, well away from the dwelling. Of course they had to trudge outside periodically to tend the big firebox, but this completely removes the hazard of fire (and the hassle of firewood-borne dirt and insects) from the dwelling. Not a bad idea.
I have a 2-eye cookstove that my grandparents used for many years, fueling with coal. I melted crayons atop it when I was a kid. It's just a decoration now, too warped and inefficient to be useful, but someday I'd still like to install a flue and hook it up. Currently I have a central, electric heat pump system, with the only emergency backup being a vile kerosene space heater.
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