wood boilers etc.

[leon]

Good afternoon to you all on a hot summer day.

As long as we are looking forward to or shivering
about the coming winter I have a few questions.

I wanted to throw them on the grill here as long
as I cannot toss a few shrimp on the barbeque.


Have any of you bit the bullet and had your indoor
wood wood boiler parked in an out building to get
rid of the mess?

Not to name drop but I have been looking to replace
our 28 year old boiler with a Harmon 360 as it has more
water capacity but I would like to get the mess outside
after all these years as I have almost 30 cord to burn and
using a sled when the snow is deep gets awfully tiresome.




I was thinking an 8 by 20 garage or a 24by 24 pole barn on a
slab would be more effective cost wise as they are very
cranky about outdoor boilers here in the empire state
home of high taxes and few benefits.

I was thinking I could move both boilers into the outbuilding
to get rid of the mess and add more room as we live on
one floor in in an old shot gun school house etc.


Anyway these were my thoughts as you can buy the
24 by 24 prefab steel pole barn buildings pretty reasonably
of late, and I could have a full slab which would be best as
I have very poor drainage.

I would need about 11 yards of concrete and 576 square feet of
reinforcing mesh, 576 square feet of vapor barrior and slab insulation
for the formed slab.

I would pass on insulating it as its essentially an outbuilding only.


I could bring in a lot of wood using an overhead door
or simple trolley track barn door and keep the coal dry as well.

 

[wooddog 066]

Just buy a good outdoor wood furnace and have a leantoo to cover wood and say goodbye to the mess and all the splitting unless it wont it in the door!!

 

[dave_dj1]

It has been done, just be sure you use the best underground insulated pipe you can find , heat loss is such a waste! If it were me, I would try and keep the outbuilding as close to the house as reasonably possible. (just me not wanting to buy any more of that expensive piping than I have too)
build a "room" in the outbuilding that you can insulate well, maybe put some blueboard under the slab where the room will be.
A good chimney weather it be masonary or insulated zero clearance.
I would look to add a large, well insulated storage tank in the "room" also, It is my opinion that it would be easier to maintain temp. with a large amount of storage.
Good luck and keep us up to date.
dave