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ETTING TO
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Y
OUR
F
URNACE
C
OMMON
Q
UESTIONS
I
S IT SAFE
?
Having the furnace outside eliminates the possibility of causing a fire in your home. The furnace is a
non-pressurized system which eliminates any chance of explosion associated with pressurized
furnaces. Also the oversize door makes loading easier.
W
HAT CAN
I
SIT THE FURNACE ON
?
A 4 to 6 inch concrete pad is recommended, whether preformed or poured.
H
OW FAR AWAY CAN IT BE
?
Earth Outdoor Wood Furnaces can be set from 30 to 300 feet away from your home. There are a few
things to keep in mind: 1. The ease of access for digging lines to your house from the furnace 2. How
you will get wood to your furnace 3. how far you want to go when needing to fill the furnace with wood.
4. Check with your insurance company to make sure you are in compliance with your policy. Normally
you should visit your wood furnace twice a day to check the fire and fill with wood. You will want to
have easy access to this location with a truck or tractor to replenish the wood when needed.
H
OW MUCH WOOD WILL
I
USE
?
That depends on your home, insulation and the quality of wood you're burning. This might help: heating
a 2,500 sq ft well-insulated home and a 60 gallon water tank with good wood could take about 5 to 7
cords per cold season (6 months). The cost of a cord of wood these days is about $120. You can see
the savings of owning an Earth Furnace. That is $600 to $840 a year to heat your home naturally with
renewable energy. What did you spend last year?
W
HAT DO
I
DO WHEN
I
GO AWAY FOR A COUPLE DAYS
?
This is a common question. You have several options depending on your situation.
If your wood furnace is hooked up correctly, leave your pump on, your existing indoor furnace will back
heat the wood furnace preventing it from freezing. The cost of your indoor furnace back heating your
outdoor is very minimum cost if everything is very well insulated.
Here are a few more options for you:
1.
You can set up your unit with a bypass to not heat the home and circulate the water within
itself and the burn time will be much longer--4 to 5 days.
2.
If the weather isn't really cold the circulation pump is moving the water quite quickly. Moving
water is hard to freeze.
3.
Maybe a friend or family member could help and feed the unit while your away.
4.
You could look into special anti freeze. Keep in mind most anti freeze is terrible to our
environment and costly.
5.
You can let the fire die down and drain the furnace. It only takes about 10-20 minutes to
drain the unit. When you return simply refill the unit and relight the fire.
6.
"If there is a will there is away!"
W
HAT IF THE ELECTRICITY GOES OUT
?
The Earth Outdoor Wood Furnace uses very little electricity which can be supported by a small
generator. You can run a regular inexpensive extension cord to the unit and unplug the furnace from
the outlet on the back of the furnace and plug into a small generator. Problem solved. However, when
most homes lose electricity they have no way to power the indoor blower for their duct work. Either way
you will need something to back up your existing home as well as the wood furnace. Another option
would be to use an extension cord on a box style fan and place the fan so that it would blow into the
return vent of your duct work. Then close off the vents to rooms you can afford to let go cold.
Otherwise you will need to look into a system that will power your indoor blower. Consult electrical
contractors for most of that type of work.
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