I heat my home with wood pellets. I want to add another option as well. Looking into a heat pump or vented/unvented propane heaters. Anyone have some thoughts to share?
The main reason for the secondary option is when I leave town and can not keep the pellet stove going.
There is a propane furnace in the house, maybe I should just use it. Or, buy a newer furnace since mine is over 20 years old. It is a high efficiency model though.
I heat me home with wood pellets. I want to add another option as well. Looking into a heat pump or vented/unvented propane heaters. Anyone have some thoughts to share?
The main reason for the secondary option is when I leave town and can not keep the pellet stove going.
There is a propane furnace in the house, maybe I should just use it. Or, buy a newer furnace since mine is over 20 years old. It is a high efficiency model though.
I use a biomass furnace to heat. Pellets/corn/etc. My secondary is propane, that said, this year propane was so cheap and it was so warm out it wasn't worth the hassle, I used propane all year.
Since you already have a propane furnace in the house, why not use it? Call someone out to go through it and make sure it's working properly and run it...
/\ We definitely have similar opinions on all of this stuff. Your response is how or what I was thinking on most of this stuff. I suppose I was fishing, looking for more opinions and maybe input on if the heat pumps or vented/unvented lp heaters had gotten any better..
Mine is just a simple cab50 heatilator pellet stove.
Used to have a biomass (baby magnum countryside stove) heater in the house, but did not like where we had it, how it needed cleaning or how it had to be lit.
Primarily corn, the neighbor sells it to me at market price. About 150 bushel gets me through the winter, I buy it by the wagon. I'll use pellets too sometimes, but I have also ran cherry pits.
Cleaning it is a pain in the butt, I never seem to get it really good.
Like what was already said, you have a perfect solution. Your furnace should be about 95% efficient. So if you have a furnace, and a high efficiency one at that, and you want AC, why not put AC on the Furnace? Just need to make sure duct work is sized right and the furnace has the right size blower for the AC size you need.
You could also use a heatpump with a coil on that furnace, get AC and a 3rd source of back up heat.
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