berko
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Post by berko on Feb 14, 2012 23:32:39 GMT -8
So, heat comfort level, it is cabable of MORE radiant heat, not even counting the mass. I'm currently burning around 20 lbs of wood in 24 hours, the box stove was in the neigborhood of 100lbs in the same period, and the house wasn't as warm. Great! Can you tell me something about your house ? Size of house/room, room height, Insulation of house,Wall Surface Type, etc. And something about your house of neigborhood ? Thx.
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Post by matthewwalker on Feb 15, 2012 17:45:46 GMT -8
Sure, the house is 40 years old or so. Regular stick frame construction, but poorly insulated and with single pane windows. I've been struggling with heat. The house has an oil furnace and central heat, but it costs a fortune to run. Two years ago I switched to heating solely with wood, and the stove was older style, inefficient, but worked because it was so large. I was burning 7-8 cords a year, and it was okay, but if I left for more than 12 hours or so and the house cooled off, it took days to warm up again.
With all that bad stuff, the good part was that there was a lot of mass built into the original stove surround, in the form of bricks. That's where I built the RMH. It's in a 900 sq. ft. room, with a total of about 1700 sq ft in the house. It's a rural neighborhood, on some acreage.
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 16, 2012 8:27:09 GMT -8
7-8 cords or 7-8 face cord ?
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Post by matthewwalker on Feb 16, 2012 15:15:53 GMT -8
Cords. I don't think we have face cords here, I've read that in other parts of the country wood is sold that way, but here, it's just cords. 4'x4'x8'. Hey, cool build there Wolf.
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