A Neighbor Friendly Solution to High Heating Costs

Concern for his smoke sensitive next-door neighbor who suffers from asthma had been preventing David I. from converting from oil to wood heat. A water jacketed outdoor wood boiler a quarter mile away already sent smoke throughout the area, upsetting neighbors.

Feeling the bite of $2,700 winter oil bills for heating his 4,500 sq. ft house and 1,000 sq. foot shop, David searched for an alternative. Wood heat was the obvious choice.

Living in a forested area in Mt. Desert ME, the wood supply was plentiful; fallen trees lay rotting in the forest just beyond his back yard. But David kept asking himself, "what about the smoke?"

The day David discovered the Greenwood high efficiency, clean burning, wood furnace, he found his answer. He installed a Greenwood Model 200 in a small addition he built attached to his garage and tied it into his existing radiant in-floor heating system. Loading his Greenwood twice a day provides plenty of heat for his house and shop.

"There is so little smoke that my neighbor has no awareness of my Greenwood at all. Smoke is not a problem for my neighbor or me," says David.

Burning so clean and efficiently also means that the Greenwood produces very little ash. "I haven't had to empty my Greenwood but twice in the last two months."

David's savings are working out well, too. He now pays only $300 for the entire heating season, achieving a 90% drop in his home heating bill.