Wood stoves

T Whalen · Mar 2, 2014

I have been going through outdoor wood stove options and have found that for what I need -Heating 3400sq ft-my best option would be a forced air outdoor wood burner as I do not want the headaches of a boiler. The only thing is that I do not want a wood stove right next to my house.I plan on putting it 30ft away and putting the pipes in a 3ftx3ft sprayfoamed insulated box with an inline helper fan in the basement. Any ideas?

Anonymous-0 · Mar 3, 2014

Go to outdoorwoodfurnace.com I think that is the site. One cold air return and 1 hot air supply. I have thought of getting one myself. although, I do not have a large supply of cheap wood.

JDemaris · Mar 3, 2014

My forced-air wood furnace is 50 feet from the house. I used corrugated plastic culvert pipe with flexible insulated duct inside of it. Buried a foot underground. Works fine for me.

Nebraska Cowman · Mar 3, 2014

You do as you please but I would not want to go out in the storm to fix the fire. I have my stoves in the house.

JDemaris · Mar 3, 2014

(quoted from post at 20:46:57 03/02/14) I have been going through outdoor wood stove options and have found that for what I need -Heating 3400sq ft-my best option would be a forced air outdoor wood burner as I do not want the headaches of a boiler. The only thing is that I do not want a wood stove right next to my house.I plan on putting it 30ft away and putting the pipes in a 3ftx3ft sprayfoamed insulated box with an inline helper fan in the basement. Any ideas?

I put my forced-air wood-furnace 50 feet from the house. I later build a room around it and it is now connected. I never have to go out in the cold. The room holds around 3 full cords of wood. If I bring it in wet - it dries before I have to burn it. The room is also a great place to dry wet clothes. I have an 80 gallon water storage tank hooked to the furnace with coils to make our hot water. NO pump. Just thermosiphon. Works great. Chimney is easy to clean from inside. No need to go outside to do it. Hot air ducts pass underground to the rest of the house.
I used a Myers Woodchuck 4000 furnace. It was the heaviest built hot-air wood furnace I could find.

http://www.meyermfg.com/woodchuck.php

PJH · Mar 3, 2014

"Somewhere" I read that the magic distance is 40 or 50 feet, in the insurance industry's eyes. Probably different with each company/agent. I accidentally put my boiler at 40 feet, and my agent was pleased that it wasn't an inch closer. I'm just mentioning this so you can work smarter than I did. If you learn the rules of the game before you start the game, you'll know which way to run with the ball.

Lou from Wi. · Mar 3, 2014

Jde, Couple of questions. Your pictures shows the furnace as being an Up draft with two pipes coming from the plenum pushing hot air down as would be in a down draft furnace. I would think without a duct fan blowers pushing the hot air down rather than relying upon the main furnace blower doing all the work.

Not trying to be a smart azz,just curious as I have never seen one done that way.How big of cfm blower does the furnace use? and do you have a damper set up in the main( register) feed plenum?.

We manufactured the blower motor assembly (box and mounting) on ours has been changed from the rinky dink original, to a oil furnace blower assy with 3/4hp belt motor.Blows alot of heat up thru the house,as does the oil furnace motor (separate new lennox oil furnace).
I was just wondering.
Regards,
LOU

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