OT: Any heating and A/C guys here?, I want a new heating system for my house Options

[Mark Henry]

I have baseboard heaters and I want something better. My bills aren't huge, 23yr old house with 6" walls and at least R-40 in the ceiling, but you know baseboards suck.

We only really "need" A/C about 1 month per year...having it all summer would be nice, but that's a "like" not a need. We use a window shaker, noisy but it does the trick.

No gas service here.

Been kicking around, propane (or oil) forced air, propane in-floor, propane fireplaces up stairs and down (and keep the baseboards to even things out)...wood is out, I'm not stacking, etc wood in my old age.
Ground source would be nice but $$$$$.

I use wood in the shop and I may also change that one day.

What would you go with? What's the best bang for the buck?

[Bleyseng]

QUOTE (guywan914 @ Nov 20 2005, 07:48 AM)

Mark, I don't know prices of propane compared to other fuels in your area but propane has some of the most efficient equipment out there. Because you have baseboard in a heating dominant area Geo is a costly alterative unless you are adding the ducts for A\C. Geo has leaving water temps of 130 which is probaby about 50f less than your boiler. So unless your original base is oversized you wouldn't have the capacity to heat the home. Check into some of the wall hung units available from Buderus or Noritz, they are compact and very efficient. You need to know your total btu loss of the home and domestic hot water needs to size the equipment. The wall hung units generally don't use storage for domestic hot water with the exception of the Buderus wher eit can be used with a storage tank. PM if you have any other questions

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Plus you can use the nice wall mounted radiators in some rooms. Infloor is nice but does need some other fan system to blow air around too.
There are high volume AC systems $$$$ to cool the house too.


The infloor can be stapled up to the wood sub floor from the basement.