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Post by Sílený Jízda on Oct 12, 2007 11:30:07 GMT -6
The boss up here is contemplating switching to a corn/pellet heating style for our units. It's a normal style house divided in three units with our unit being a two floor unit. It's normally heated with natural gas. Any ideas or information as to the benefits and cost estimates if she were to switch? Any links to additional information would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by ogeezer on Oct 12, 2007 15:09:18 GMT -6
...rather than telling you where to find info on your thread topic, i brought up an earlier thread with enuff info to get you started, just scope out Heating With Corn ...
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Post by Sílený Jízda on Oct 12, 2007 15:42:40 GMT -6
Thank ya, ogeezer. I did a search on the off chance right after I posted. (duh my bad) and found the topic. I would imagine with the new fuel requirements that the cost has gone up significantly due to the corn end of things. It seems to have affected the cost of beef, pork and chicken around here a great deal.
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Post by DirtyDon on Oct 12, 2007 16:46:35 GMT -6
Using corn for heating my be a lot costlier here lately.. this corn fuel crapola for ethanol has screwed up all our food prices as well... Milk, eggs, butter, cereals, meats, hell, even Beer and Vodka!! Thank you you iliberal Idiots! Kiss Al's arse why don't you jerkoffs.. die of aids and do us all a favor..
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Post by ogeezer on Oct 13, 2007 7:32:15 GMT -6
Sure right about that, DD. Deer corn, 2 years ago went for $1.50 per 50 lb bag ... to $3.25 per 40 lb bag last year ... I've seen it selling for $5.75 per 40 lb bag locally, and in East TX near hunting lease country all the way up to $11 per 50 pound bag.
What's nice about some of those corn/pellet heaters is when corn prices are high, pelletized wood chips, sawdust and even pelletized hay meadow grasses can be used as an alternative.
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Post by Sílený Jízda on Oct 13, 2007 19:54:35 GMT -6
The boss was thinking about the wood as well. I just don't know enough about them one way or the other to use them as a total heating solution. Particularly up here when temps can dip to the teens on average. Supplemental heat I could understand but as the main heat source I don't think it would be good. At the moment everything is natural gas and two of the units have gas fireplaces as well. Only thing is ours is the only one that is functional. The other had a leak behind the stone wall in what we assume is only the valve. Perhaps she could look at a pellet/corn insert for that one?
That particular unit is the older side and only has single pane glass casement windows. Our unit has double pane but non insulated. I'm heading out tomorrow morn to look for sealing fixes for the doors.
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