outside boilers????

Anonymous-0 · Jan 19, 2012

Hey folks,
how does these things heat your house? I was thinking that to have them, you plumbed your house with radiators for heat... The reason I guess that I expected folks to know what I was talking about with my heater ???'s...... Or does it go into a big radiator (??) that a fan blows across to put warm air thru ducts??

M Nut · Jan 19, 2012

Mine works using the second part of your statement. Water is piped into the heat exchanger where the fan blows it through the duct work of my forced air system.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 19, 2012

you are right. there is a big radiator that sits in the plenum ( ductwork from the furnace to the over head ductwork) of your existing furnace. water is pumped from the boiler outside into the house and through the radiator. the blower from your existing furnace blows the hot air through the duct work in your house. Now the people who have boiler heat in there house already just tie the boiler outside to heat the water in the boiler inside.

drastic dave · Jan 19, 2012

Thermostat in house runs your fan when needed and a thermostat on the boiler keeps the water hot in the boiler. Water does not actually boil, mine is about 160 degrees. Works on the same principle as a vehicles heating system, hot water running through a heater core. I like my stove it saves a lot of money and gives me exercise cutting and hauling wood. Only drawback is I hate to go outside when its raining to feed the stove.

Leroy · Jan 19, 2012

There are two types of outdoor heater and one is the boiler type And uses water ducts fore the heat to the base board raidator heater and then there are just the hot air type with just air ducts.

Russ from MN · Jan 19, 2012

One reason people in the US use the forced air
system is then they can also have AC in the same
system.

questadg · Jan 19, 2012

Mine pipes hot water into my house where it is distributed to
three different zones. I have floor radiant heat so no forced
air dryness. Wife loves it so I love it.

Google Central Boiler for plenty of info. Good luck

JayinNY · Jan 19, 2012

On a different note I have a indoor wood boiler in my cellar. It
has stainless steel water coils in it, the fire heats the water
and the circulator moves the water threw the stove, into a non
working 40 gallon hot water heater threw the oil boiler and
threw the radiators in the house. I Like the system, the stove
has a 8 to 10 hour burn time. If the house temp drops below
69 the oil boiler will start up and keep the house at 69. I can
set the thermostat at what ever temp I want but for us 69 to
71 seems fine.

JoeBob-IN · Jan 19, 2012

Forced air across a hot coil doesn't really cause dry air, an add-on woodburner in the basement or a fireplace will cause dry air.

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