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Old 01-27-2013, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by rexs73gto View Post
It's not as expensive as forced air either. Because you have to remember that the forced air hits you twice with the gas bill & the electric bill & both are high for the forced air because that fan takes a lot of electricty to run. The little pump on the boiler doesn't take as much so it's going to be less expensive.
You can have the best of both worlds. Here's a wood/hydronic system that needs no electricity other than that required to run the pumps and cycle the dampers. In a power outage, you shouldn't even need that power. http://www.greenwoodusa.com/greenwoo...od-furnace.php

I'm starting to consider one of them to tie into my existing system.

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