How do you heat your house?

I so do not see now this it not the STANDARD. If I'm ever so fortunate to build from scratch, this is the path I'll take.

 

They are freaking expensive that's why

 

+1 for wood heating. Wood furnace tied into cold air return. Anything above lowest setting will run you out of the house. Gas furnace for temps above 35*.

 

Ditto....Hardy wood stove(nonpressurized boiler type) with heat exchanger in existing gas furnace and recent new addition with garage, bonus room and kitchen and 2 baths all hydronic radiant heat. 3000' 1/2" pex, 4 different thermostat zones. I wish I could retrofit the whole house with radiant.

 

2-3 cords! wow do you cut your own wood or you buy?

After wife bakes i stand in front

 

I get most of my firewood free .

I also burn about 2 cords a year , and about 1/2 cord of lumber scraps at the beginning and end of heating season when we don't need a big fire .

 

Free as in you cut down your own trees? or free you get it from someone

 

Free as in we remove trees on the properties I work on .

 

Do you have AC? Any central air system at all? For the temps you experience a heat pump (AC in reverse) is very efficient. It should be easy to add if you already have AC.

 

Forest service sells it $15 a cord cut your own dead only standing or fallen. I only get the ones that are still standing because the fall stuff is rotted & bug infested. Thats why I kept my '95 PreTaco so I wouldn't have to use my new Taco to haul wood. You can see some wood behind the PreTaco.

 

lol just like you put the sign with the arrow pointing to the back to show me the wood! so 15 bucks and you cut your own? here they sell a cord cut, split and delivered for about 300 bucks

 

$200 here for fir , $225-250 for arbutus

 

No we dont have any AC or central system

 

Here the wood that is most used or wanted is Keawe wood

 

Arbutus or Madrone as it is properly called , is a evergreen deciduous tree that only grows right on the coast .

It takes 2 years to properly dry , but burns like coal when properly seasoned .

 

Keawe takes about 2 years to dry also and it burns really good, almost like coal also. And smells really nice!

 

Arbutus is a bitch to split , it grows all fucked up and twisted , and as it dries it twists some more . You have to split it right away while there is water still in it , or cut it into rounds and just use them as overnighters .

 

Yeah i found out the hard way about splitting DRIED wood, freakin hard! had to split just a small pile of Ohia trees cause we were making smoke meat, had lychee wood, Ohia wood, Keawe wood and i believe Waiwi wood also know as strawberry guava. Gives the meat awesome flavor!

 

Sounds exotic

 

Jw do you guys not have heaters? Or are the furnaces etc in addition to a heater?