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re: heating water with a woodstove
12 may 2000
georges wrote:
>it looks like you want to make a heat storage system
>for the house as well as a hw system.
and fire up the stove less-frequently.
>i find the house itself retains enough heat that additional storage is
>unnecessary. i worked it out once, most of the storage was in the
>sheetrock walls. my rule of thumb in storage is that after i get home
>from work a) no pipes have frozen, b) i can walk around in a sweater
>while i fire up the stove. so far, that works.
the person i live with considers 67 f freezing and 69 "way too hot." :-)
>you might want to reconsider the basement location of the stove if it
>is not already installed... i like the direct radiative heat during
>the winter evening...
then again, warm floors are nice.
>also, if you are hauling four chords during the winter, the fewer
>stairs the better.
i dump the wood outside near some double doors to the basement,
with concrete steps, and just toss a week's worth downstairs...
it's a small fairly well-insulated house... 2 cords a year.
>a further advantage of a stove in the living space is that it is
>easier to refire just before you go to bed and you first wake up.
yes, sleepy chores...
>think about the flow path in that concrete you wrap over the barrel
>stove. you want the flow path so that the water can rise in the coil.
>if you just took a flat copper coil, and warped it "saddle wise" so it
>fit around the barrel, each part of the flow path that "goes down" is
>a potential steam trap.
i'm thinking the pump will take care of that. i'll be using one because
the heat store will be under a workbench, at stove level. some drums
or maybe epdm rubber troughs.
nick
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