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Originally Posted by indyjoe

I've looked at the outdoor wood furnaces from Central Boiler. It is a multi-day burning "shed" that gets heat to your central air and water heater via insulated pipes. This seems like the easiest retrofit for wood burning in a house not designed for it. I wonder if it would be hard to use the same loop for going through the solar water heater to do hot water only in the summer, without wood burning, and assist with pre-heating the return in the winter. The price is a little steep, at about $5k to start.

Looks good, I especially like the A coil heat dispersement using existing furnace and ductwork. I live in a log cabin, metal roof with 0 roof cuts. The propane furnace is HE with outside air and cool exhaust. Basically, a squirrel with a match heats the house :rolleyesedit: Not my favorite but it is allegedly efficient.

The cost on these puppies is the killer. My electricity fails more in the summer than the winter. I am also looking at a LP generator for those failures. It only takes money