ok Stretch, I am very curious....
price?
how does it tie into the furnace?
what happens if the power goes out? will it still heat??
folks had an out door wood burner and if the power went out you had to go pull the fire out or it would melt the fan!
Well it goes something like this. The stove cost me 950.00 the chimney and pipe and other stuff to make the chimney work cost me about 1000.00. I laid the chimney myself and it is a brick outside and a clay tile liner with zonolite(sp) for insulation. It goes up through the inside wall clear up to the roof. It is about 30-31 ft tall and has a clean out at the bottom about 2 ft up off the floor. I wouldn't do it any other way as I am a volunteer fireman and the steel chimneys have proved to me that I don't want them. I am sure I missed some small items and so I would guess that it would bring the cost to 2000-2200.00. I tried my best to build it to last 50+ yrs like the last stove and chimney did in the house. If the power goes out it does present a small problem. It does require power to make the fan run but not much, about same as a box fan or a tv. So I went and got a 5500 watt generator to solve that. It also has enough juice to power up the well and fridge and such. I am not saying that my setup is the only way but I studied and studied and I really felt for the money it was my best option. I had the wood and wanted to keep the dead wood cleaned up and trim trees and such. Corn would have cost me near double the cost to go to a corn furnace.
The wood stove is piped in with the two round pipes into the top of the gas furnace and has a divider above the gas unit to direct the heat up into the duct work. I can super charge the whole deal if I turn on the fan of the gas unit and push the heat more.
The only two things I would change is the stove is fine but I hate the door on it. The trouble is I don't think any other stove does any better.. It is to small and so the wood has to be split down to fit. My old stove had a door big enough to almost roll a 5 gal bucket in. The other thing is I would get a generator that was wired in and would automatically come on when the power went off so it wouldn't matter if we were home or not. Sorry for the long story... Ask away I am glad to share ideas to help if I can..
