WoodMaster Flex Fuel

Purchase any outdoor hydronic heater and the earth will thank you. You’ll be saving precious fossil fuels.

However, purchase a high efficiency outdoor hydronic heater, like the WoodMaster Flex Fuel, and your wallet will thank you. Over time, you’ll be saving precious cash.

We’re the first to admit: WoodMaster furnaces are an investment. But sometimes it’s worth it to pay a little more upfront. Investing in a high efficiency, clean burning, Flex Fuel hydronic heater is a smart choice. Here are some of the top advantages of the batch-burn-thermal-storage philosophy of wood burning:

• Refueling savings. Traditional outdoor hydronic heaters (OHH) efficiencies generally range from 40-64 percent, depending on the manufacturer. According to the European testing method 303-5, WoodMaster’s Flex Fuel furnace earns a rating of over 93 percent efficiency burning stick wood. This means one of two refueling savings: either you’ll spend less time, energy and money in getting your wood or you’ll have less cost in purchasing your wood.
• Clean(est) burning. Many outdoor hydronic heaters burn wood cleanly, but only one high efficiency furnace burns wood the cleanest, and that’s the WoodMaster Flex Fuel, according to the EPA’s Burn Wise website. With a Flex Fuel furnace, you’re being as eco-friendly as possible.
• Clean burn = long life. The cleaner the burn, the longer your heater’s lifespan. By monitoring the oxygen level in the emissions, we can adjust the air, giving WoodMaster Flex Fuel’s a perfect burn. Eliminating most of the creosote build up helps the high efficiency furnace materials last even longer.
• More time. With a clean burn, you get a clean machine. With the Flex Fuel, you’ll spend less time cleaning and maintaining your high efficiency furnace. Because of the self-cleaning heat exchangers and no need to rotate ash (because of the complete burn), cleaning out the ash chamber is all you have to worry about. Depending on the demand, it could be once a week or every other.
• Remote storage. Outdoor hydronic heaters have always had thermal storage; it’s just been built in with the heater. WoodMaster’s innovative Flex Fuel furnace allows you to move the storage to the best and most convenient location. For instance, the Flex Fuel could be in a remote building while the storage is installed in the home. This way, if any heat is lost off the storage tank, it’s really not “lost” at all. The extra heat will serve a purpose by heating your home. As an added bonus, with the remote thermal storage, you can now add solar to assist in your heating needs.
• Freedom to switch. One of my favorite Flex Fuel features is its ability to switch fuel types anytime. If, for whatever reason, you choose to heat with pellets instead of wood, you can. This is an added flexibility that’s entirely possible with the Flex Fuel high efficiency furnace.

These are just a few of the many wallet-friendly advantages to owning a Flex Fuel high efficiency furnace over a traditional outdoor hydronic heater.

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