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Our clothes dryer just stopped heating at a very inconvenient time (right in the middle of a load of clothes.) Now we are also having a ice storm so hanging them on the line outside is out of the question. So I now have clothes draped over anything that we could find to hang clothes over gathered around the wood stove with an oscillating fan moving some air around them. Drying time is not very impressive at around 5 hours but it sure beats frozen solid underwear on the clothes line.
I am sure that others here have used the wood stove as a clothes dryer too and probably have a better system than I am using but has anyone ever plumbed heat from a wood stove/furnace/boiler into a clothes dryer? Not something that I could tackle with my setup just wondering if it had been done.
Just thinking out loud here but when it comes to power hogs, heating the house is the most expensive use of electricity, and also the easiest to replace with wood heat. Then cooking and heating water use lots of electricity as well. Cooking on a wood stove is easy enough and there are plenty of sidearms and heat exchanger systems for heating water. Then the next big energy hog would be the clothes dryer right? I have just never heard of a dryer system for a wood stove. I mean sure what I am doing works but it sure clutters up the living-room.
P.S. I just ordered a heat element for my dryer so I will be back on electric dried clothes by next week.
I am sure that others here have used the wood stove as a clothes dryer too and probably have a better system than I am using but has anyone ever plumbed heat from a wood stove/furnace/boiler into a clothes dryer? Not something that I could tackle with my setup just wondering if it had been done.
Just thinking out loud here but when it comes to power hogs, heating the house is the most expensive use of electricity, and also the easiest to replace with wood heat. Then cooking and heating water use lots of electricity as well. Cooking on a wood stove is easy enough and there are plenty of sidearms and heat exchanger systems for heating water. Then the next big energy hog would be the clothes dryer right? I have just never heard of a dryer system for a wood stove. I mean sure what I am doing works but it sure clutters up the living-room.
P.S. I just ordered a heat element for my dryer so I will be back on electric dried clothes by next week.