Domestic water heater

Nathaniel Watts · Apr 18, 2011

Going to be putting in a new wood boiler here before the winter. Can't stand anymore of this reaming from buying propane. Just curious about everyones opinions on the different types of water heating. I could use sidearm, plate, or coil in the stove. As for the coil, the stove will be around 50' from the house.

Gerald Slaton · Apr 18, 2011

I put in a propane tankless hotwater heater with direct vent and saved a bundle on propane costs.The direct vent models are very efficient.

Jerry

Anonymous-0 · Apr 19, 2011

Take a couple cold showers, or worse yet, let Mama take 1 cold shower because that heater 50 ft from the house quit and you'll wish you had that propane back :roll: Go with on demand. Little different here because appliances heat their own water and the heater only supplies shower and sink water and there is only 2 adults in the house. I have an electric OD heater that I can switch to in a couple minutes as a backup or shut off the oil heater from April to November.

Dave

Ivan in Mich · Apr 19, 2011

We have an outdoor wood boiler and it heats our house, my pole barn and our hot water. We have a flat plate type heater for our hot water. Make sure that use a tempering valve as the water is as hot as what the wood stove is set at, ours is 165 degrees. This also works excellant for cleaning oil covered parts.I did some work by the water heater a year after we installed the wood boiler and shut the gas off and I forgot to turn the polit back on. Wife we in and took a shower and I remembered that the water heater was off so I waited for the yell but it never came. The water heater is working as a storage tank . We only use about 25 gals of gas a year for cooking. I have to cut wood but it is better than getting it up the rear from the gas man.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 04:17:23 04/19/11) getting it up the rear from the gas man.

That what you call back door bartering??????? You MI folks are wierd :shock:

RMinVa · Apr 19, 2011

I turned the LP gas off too. I use a 20 plate exchanger for hot water and no tank. My Dad passed away last week and had folks here for that. Sunday morning 6 took showers one after the other and was no problem to keep the hot water flowing. It's endless as long as there's fire in the OWB. I do have a mixing valve in the line to control the heat.I did a lot of reading before going with the plate exchanger and went with it because I don't want a storage tank. It works flawless too.

I also have a Rheem tankless LP heater but turned it off and don't intend to use it again as long as I can feed wood to the OWB.

kopeck · Apr 19, 2011

I'm in the same boat only I use oil.

I just ordered a Tarm Solo Innova 30 that I'm going to use with 800 gallons of storage. Right now I have an indirect domestic hot water heater that I'm going to continue to use to keep the install price down but I plan on adding a DHW coil to the storage in the future.

Look into gasification boilers. You are going to pay more on the front end but you're going to use a lot less wood. My time is worth money to me so the less time I spend in the woods/splitting & stacking the better.

K

MI Bill G · Apr 19, 2011

I have a Central Boiler Classic OWB and use a side arm type exchanger. This works very well for me. As it works on a gravity or thermo siphon (or whatever you might call it) I may run out of hot water when several consecutive showers are taken. In my case we had company and sixth shower was not hot. I am told that a pump could be installed to force the domestic water through the side arm exchanger and you would never run out of hot water. A tempering valve is a must as the water stored in my water heater is in access of 163 degrees. The OWB is the best investment ever for me. My wife enjoys the flexibility of raising the thermostat at her wishes. When we relied on propane she kept the house cold with an electric heat dish aimed at her and we covered with Afghans. People think that OWB's are wood hogs and wouldn't have one but if I had it to do over I would do it again. I don't think my wood consumption is excessive. Very happy with it.

big fred · Apr 19, 2011

They sure are. Around here, the LP gas distributor accepts money as payment.

Anonymous-0 · Apr 19, 2011

(quoted from post at 09:32:47 04/19/11) They sure are. Around here, the LP gas distributor accepts money as payment.

bet it's confusing to the cops when someone reports people trading crack for service............. :roll:

buickanddeere · Apr 19, 2011

Going to a well water supplied Geothermal here with a wind turbine and net metering.
No cumbustion, smoke or soot. Just "free" hetaing and cooling.

Adirondack case guy · Apr 19, 2011

Just curious; How big a wind turbine, how tall and what brand. What is your average anual wind speed at hub heigth.

buickanddeere · Apr 19, 2011

20KW rated. 60 ft tower. Located on the edge of Lake Huron. 12 mph average wind speed.
Power bill currently is approx $250 to $600 a month depending.

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