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Old 10-05-2008, 12:42 PM   #7
Griff
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I'll have to take a picture. I have a South facing walk-in basement. What I'd like, in fantasy world, is for the solar heater to eliminate the need for the pellet stove. We've found that if the basement gets too cold the Russian fireplace we heat the rest of the house with has to be burned more often. My thinking is to super-insulate the basement keeping the pier the fireplace is on from getting cold and conducting heat out of it. If it works as I'd like the payback is 10 years when pellets are $200 a ton. However, that assumes I won't have to replace the used pellet stove I've been using with a new one. I think the stoves are starting at about $2500 these days.
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