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08851 Re: DECOMPOSED ---Home Plan - exterior views
   and it can burn hardwood, softwood, coal, cardboard, >>>&g... 		kathy_s16   6TH POPE   13 Nov 2020
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08844 Re: DECOMPOSED ---Home Plan - exterior views
   I like the pallets for a floor LOL, I have used pallets for a lot of f... 		capt_nemo   6TH POPE   13 Nov 2020
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08841 Re: DECOMPOSED ---Home Plan - exterior views
   Impressive, really impressive, DE. I was just going to tell you abo... 		kathy_s16   6TH POPE   13 Nov 2020
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Re: DECOMPOSED ---Home Plan - exterior views

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 13 Nov 20 5:21 AM
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Angie:

Re: “I'm considering putting in an external wood-furnace. That would allow me to burn off scrap wood from the yard without needing to much cut it up.”I'm not sure I ever updated the board about this. If I did, then my apologies for repeating myself.

I went as far as to have a 6" diameter hole put through the basement foundation wall to accommodate an external wood-furnace, then started researching furnaces. What I found was discouraging. First, they run $12,000 ... plus labor. If the furnace then saves us $500/year, the years to payback would be TWENTY FIVE TO THIRTY. Yikes. That's ridiculous.

Then I found that thanks to Barrack Obama, today's external furnaces come equipped with high-maintenance catalytic converters AND are only able to burn well dried hard woods, preferably without bark. My forest is largely pine, fir and other softwoods. That blows! So I called off the whole thing. An external furnace no longer made sense.

A few weeks later, I was chatting with my builder about what Obama had done when his assistant (for zzfart's benefit: this means my builder's assistant, not Obama's) chimed in. "If you still want one, I've got a first generation furnace for sale right now." Wow! He was asking $3,000... a quarter the price of a new furnace... and it can burn hardwood, softwood, coal, cardboard, cats, ANYTHING. So I bought it. It weighs 1,500 pounds and is nearly as big as a small shed.

The way it works, btw, is that the external boiler heats several hundred gallons of water and pumps them into the house where they supplement the internal hot water. The hot water is circulated through baseboard heating to warm the house as well as being used for, well, hot water.

The furnace hasn't yet been delivered, but here it is:


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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months