babetheblueox
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I see a lot of wood furnaces used outdoors what are some of the better ones I don't what a boiler:confused2:
Just basically build a shed around your existing add on wood furnace and insulate the crap outta the shed. then either force the air in through pipes underground OR through a hole in your wall. Uhh, US stove makes one too, and for that particular version, i went n seen one in person, it EATS the hell outta wood too from what i understand..so i dunno.. I kinda figured a forced air, out door burner would. Takes a hell of alot of heat to make it warm enough to pass air through outdoor temps, and then inside to the house and still be warm..so makes sense really. not quite sure what ill do yet, if anything..but ill keep an eye on your thread!
Where to start with this one...oh ya...a US Stove ate wood...of course...they are not very efficient to start with. Then add in that it's suffering major heat loss like any wood burner would outside...add in ducting causing more heat loss that is outside.
It's not the best choice albeit it is a choice. If this was a something I'd do I'd certainly tryto get my furnace as close to the home as possible. Insulate the crap out of the ducting making sure nothing could flame up.I'd put it in an oversized shed and insulate the crap out of it too.Then I'd install the most efficient wood burner I could find and most likely oversize it some and make darn sure I had a big enough blower.
So Keith, are you saying any of the outside forced air instalations are more inefficient than an indoor installation or only the U.S. stove. If I could I would put an add on to my existing furnace, but no flue and not a good place to put a flue.
I just hooked up a forced air wood-burning furnace. I've been learning a lot and realize that this was actually meant to be inside it's working okay but I know that it needs to be insulated around the Heat box what would I use for that? I've used R6 thermaflo flexi duck to get it into the house and it seems to be working okay but I'd like to improve it. This is far from ideal until I can hook up to ductwork in basement this summer. View attachment 623685 View attachment 623685
THANK you!!The first thing I would do is build a fireproof base for it, then frame up an enclosure with some steel studs (if I had to do mine again I would use 6" studs instead of 3.5" for more insulation) then insulate it with roxul and then some metal roofing for the sides and roof. I sued a regular squirrel cage blower from a full size hot air furnace, I now have two of these units and love them both! One for my house and one at my garage. It's 20 below here this morning, my house is 70* at 5 am , I loaded the stove at 9:00 last evening. I can routinely get 9-12 hrs out of it in "normal" weather. I cut all my wood at 24" even though the firebox will take up to 38" . I have vowed to cut some 30" wood (my splitter will accept 31") for next winter when it get's real cold.
I just hooked up a forced air wood-burning furnace. I've been learning a lot and realize that this was actually meant to be inside it's working okay but I know that it needs to be insulated around the Heat box what would I use for that? I've used R6 thermaflo flexi duck to get it into the house and it seems to be working okay but I'd like to improve it. This is far from ideal until I can hook up to ductwork in basement this summer. View attachment 623685 View attachment 623685
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