OK, after reading a lot of the stuff here y'all got me to thinking about oversized boilers. Right now I don't think my boiler is oversized for my house but…
So here is my scenario, I have an old two-story farmhouse. With almost a full basement. The ground floor is around 1400 sq feet, the upstairs is 600 sq feet. The basement, at least the usable part, is about 1000 sq feet.
Currently I have a 20 something-year-old burnham boiler rated at an output of 107,000 BTUs. Now, that was installed over 20 years ago when none of the house was insulated and the basement had more drafts than you can imagine. About three years ago I bought the house and blew in insulation for almost the whole house. I also redid the basement and sealed it very well. I would say I have cut the heat loss in half. And I plan to do more this summer yet.
Now, I am planning to put a wood-burning stove in the living room on the ground floor and heat the ground floor and second story almost entirely with that. I figure it may not heat some of the bedrooms very well but that's OK we just sleep in them anyhow. So I was planning to use the existing boiler to just heat the basement.
So my question is this, if I do that my boiler will be majorly oversized right? I will be heating less than 1000 sq feet with a 107,000 BTU boiler.
But, I don't want to replace it with a smaller boiler because then it will not be big enough to heat my whole house when/if wood gets low or when I go out of town.
Any comments or opinions you all have on this would be very much appreciated. If someone can steer me in the right direction that would be great. Because I'm not sure what to do here. Or if I should do anything at all.
So here is my scenario, I have an old two-story farmhouse. With almost a full basement. The ground floor is around 1400 sq feet, the upstairs is 600 sq feet. The basement, at least the usable part, is about 1000 sq feet.
Currently I have a 20 something-year-old burnham boiler rated at an output of 107,000 BTUs. Now, that was installed over 20 years ago when none of the house was insulated and the basement had more drafts than you can imagine. About three years ago I bought the house and blew in insulation for almost the whole house. I also redid the basement and sealed it very well. I would say I have cut the heat loss in half. And I plan to do more this summer yet.
Now, I am planning to put a wood-burning stove in the living room on the ground floor and heat the ground floor and second story almost entirely with that. I figure it may not heat some of the bedrooms very well but that's OK we just sleep in them anyhow. So I was planning to use the existing boiler to just heat the basement.
So my question is this, if I do that my boiler will be majorly oversized right? I will be heating less than 1000 sq feet with a 107,000 BTU boiler.
But, I don't want to replace it with a smaller boiler because then it will not be big enough to heat my whole house when/if wood gets low or when I go out of town.
Any comments or opinions you all have on this would be very much appreciated. If someone can steer me in the right direction that would be great. Because I'm not sure what to do here. Or if I should do anything at all.