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What about a wood boiler? You would only have to run lines into the house instead of duct work and then just install an water to air heat exchanger. They make some pretty nice down draft gasifier boilers now a days. Might be a little more spendy than what you are looking for though. Kevin

Well i'm glad to report that i have finished my plan to try and heat my cattle water tank with my OWB. It seems to be working very well. i ran 70' of 1/2" pex to the tank and made a double loop at the bottom of it then another 70' back to the hotwater supply to my shed hanging heater. I put...

Hey i was wondering if you have made any progress with the hot water yet? Kevin

my valve is installed right above my tank and its been there 3 years and has worked good so far. The installer installed it that way so i figured it was right but reading the paper that i got with the valve it does say to have it 8" to 12" below the hot water supply feed. Kevin

the valve i have is a Watts brand from menards. 3/4 inch sweat on. model # Lf1170-ut-m2. The water in the exchanger just sits there when not in use. No need to worry about pressure building because the relief valvie on the hot water tank will still work if there was an over pressure situation...

I guess the way i'm thinking is if you run the pump continuous your really only loosing the heat through your lines because the exchanger in the house would pull heat off but it wouldn't technically be wasted because the heat is going into your house. i have thought about having my pump only run...

Yep. The way the piping is now that would be the simplest way to go. Otherwise it would be alot of change in the plumbing already there. Just make sure to turn the power or gas off to the hotwater heater so that it doesn't kick in and as long as you have the wood boiler water temp high enough...

By installing a valve in there with it closed it will pull water through the exchanger and into your house. Right now with it hooked up in parallel with the tank when you want hot water in the house it will pull most of the water from the tank and very little through the exchanger. You want full...

I think how you have it hooked up you wanted it to thermosiphon to heat the water in the tank but i don't think that would work very well with a plate exchanger without having a pump to circulate the dhw inside the tank. A ball valve below the top tee would allow it to work but it would not heat...

I have a air to water heat exchanger in my house and i pump 24/7. In my house i can feel water air at the forced air vents all the time with the fan not running so i'm assuming in your case that your always losing heat because of the heat naturally rising. If your lines are buried far enough and...

it appears that it is hooked up like a sidearm should be. I can't tell from the pics. Does your water supply run through the 30 plate? If it is hooked up like a sidearm then i would think that would be your problem. Make sure your hot supply off of the water heater run to 30 plate and then to...

I have found out that my outdoor wood boiler was covered under the insurance policy and now i am looking for a replacement boiler. I have a pressurized system and would like to stay that way and i would like to take this opportunity to switch to a gasification style of wood boiler. In my looking...

The chimney was 12' tall off the tee at the back of it. it was very high winds up here so they are assuming it was a spark out of the chimney. I actually let the fire go out that day to install a cow tank water heater off one of the loops. When i was done with the install i went to start the...

Having wood shouldn't be an issue. There alot of half burned and chared stuff to burn although it would be a pain to deal with that messy stuff. i had the outdoor wood stove in the shed and that is a total loss. The pipes are burned off right at the concrete floor.

yeah the wood isn't so bad. i lost my most prized item a x27 fiskers went up as well. i haven't accounted for all my chainsaws yet.

Hey guys. Last night i had my wood shed catch fire and it burned the thing to the ground. I figure i had roughly 30 cord stored under roof. It had a year and a half of drying time. It was very windy here yesterday and they figure a spark must have come out of the chimney to ignite it. I will try...

hey guys, i'm just looking for some opinions. i have 2 cattle tanks that i would like to keep heated this winter with my outdoor boiler. i have a heating loop running to my shed in 1 inch pex to a hanging radiator heater. i was thinking of teeing off of the loop and running 1/2, or 3/4 inch pex...

hey guys i have recently got my hands on a jonsered 801 that has sat for quite a few years. I dumped the old gas out and filled with fresh gas and then put some in the cylinder to get it running and it popped off. i have adjusted the screws to get a decent idle but it seems to bog out a little...

maybe the bladder in your expansion tank has failed causing it to fill with water. i have seen that happen before. good luck. kevin

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone here has one and how they like it. I'm on my second year with it and i'm feelin pretty good about the purchase so far. Its not a gasser but if run properly with small loads every 12 hours and with seasoned wood it seems to do quite well for itself. so i'm...