best heating system

[_RaT_]

The pullout for screws in the plastic webbing is the same for pullout in wood, about 90lbs. On the interior, you would use blue rock for your plaster, no wire except lathing at corners, windows, nicho's etc. It wold be considerably more expensive then regular drywall. On the exterior, if you stucco, you attach the wire with washer head screws right into the plastic web. The advantage with the ICF is an attachment every 8" oc instead of the typical 16" oc. What are your plans for heating/cooloing?

 

[SPIKER]

man that sure is nice stuff huh:

anyhow yes lots of heating options, out there I think the solart would be cheapest to run yet more expensive to install, here Iu want dual fuel wood will be primary as I have 20 acres of woods with enough dead standing that I could burn for ever and more will grow before i get them all gone. infact been making some rather BIG burns just to rid myself of some last weekend made 4 or 5 burns, great weather for it, one burnt 2 days. and I loaded more on and it burnt 1 more starting on own and left only about 1/2 lb of unburnt log stump parts & rest just ash (4' high and 6 feet across pile of ash!)

I want some forms to make my car service pit in the barn! 5' high 20' long and maybe a 8' deep 12x12 room UNDER slab! would make a nice place to keep the homeland security equipment and the hot water heater & pumps.!

Markm

 

[brad_oatley]

Steam boiler with millivolt controls and two pipe cast iron radiators.
No noise, dead silent.
No soot.
No maintenance.
No electricity required (heat during blackouts).
Convection and radiant heat fron the cast iron radiators.
The versatility of propane.
Fifty year lifecycle, minimum.
Problem, 99 percent of the heating "contractors" out there wouldn't know where to begin to design or install the system.

 

[Dave___in___CT]

brad_oatley...

Sounds like a nice system...

Approximate installed cost for a new 1500 sq foot home ?

Are you from (or own) Oatley Plumbing & Heating ?

I live close by...


Dave...

 

[brad_oatley]

Dave,
Expensive, in the 20-25,000 range. It really is a nice system. There is no nicer heat source than the old free standing cast iron radiators. Cast iron baseboard is a good alternative because the big radiators aren't architecturally appealing in all interiors.
I do own the Oatley Company. Feel free to private mail me here or call me at work. Advice is still free.

 

[ducati996]

Franco belge Gravity oil feed convection heat

Click on Oil/kerosene and look for Normandie model

I cant say enough good things about these stoves...Its gravity oil feed (from main oil tank or dedicated) its pumps out 42,000 btu's of convection heat (blue flame) and on a low setting it will heat almost 1,500 sq ft with only 15 gallons of oil usuage a month....it looks like a small wood burning stove

Got one for a relative in New Hampshire - they cut the heating bill 30% probably would have been more, but it was insanely cold up there last winter....
The distributor who got me my unit heats his entire store with it all winter on a low setting -amazing

Duc

 

[Dave___in___CT]

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Expensive, in the 20-25,000 range. It really is a nice system. ... )</font>


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Thanks for the price shock... LOL...

...and the advice offer too ! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif


Maybe I should ask some plumbers to save the old cast iron radiators they replace...


Dave...