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- From: agnew@gems.vcu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Wood Heating
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.110833.234@gems.vcu.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 11:08:33 -0400
- References: <1992Dec19.002153.24672@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <BzMuzv.JJA@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> <92Dec28.203530edt.608@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
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- In article <92Dec28.203530edt.608@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>, enenkel@cs.toronto.edu (Robert Frederick Enenkel) writes:
- > tip@lead.aichem.arizona.edu (Tom Perigrin) writes:
- >>
- >>3) The baseboards got in the way of EVERYTHING! You can't put bookshelves,
- >>dressers, chests of drawers, etc..., against the walls with baseboard heaters.
- >>In New Mexico you need a lot of linear feet of baseboard heater, so they had
- >>trouble finding places to put their furniture in a 3000 sq ft house!!!!
- >>
- >>4) Baseboards play hell if you put antique furniture anywhere near them,
- >>because they cause uneven heating and drying, with consequent splitting,
- >>warping, etc... Made it even harder to place their furniture!
- >
- > Sounds to me like they have too much furniture! :-) Robert Enenkel
-
- Well, I just came back from visting some friends of my wife's, and they had
- a Carolina Water Stove. a 500 gal tank of water wrapped all around a wood
- heater, and that is tied into their central air by a second "A" coil,
- thereby bypassing the normal heat. the thermostat for normal heat is set
- 10 degrees lower than the wood heater, and so it does not come on til the
- wood cools out.. it's also potable water, supplying the water heater too.
-
- quite a simple system. and saves them 70 bucks a month...
-
- jim agnew
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