morticcio
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Post by morticcio on Nov 6, 2012 8:51:38 GMT -8
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Nov 8, 2012 15:13:09 GMT -8
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Post by kirkerik on Nov 9, 2012 7:19:55 GMT -8
Wow, that is an extra heavy duty stove! Good job. Was this for yourself or a client? It looks like you spared no expense.
Looks like about thirty feet of buried pipe plus about five elbows. That typically equates to what? About 5' per elbow? Prob'ly not at this velocity w/ 8" pipe. So lets say 2.5' per elbow? That's 30' plus 12.5' is 42.5'. You say your 6" chimney was drawing well? Right?
I bet you are reaching condensate temperature. Do you have a spot to prime the chimney? I could not tell from the pic's.
May i ask why you did not use something reversible like cob for the bench? All that concrete and wire will make it quite the chore to ever make a change. I try to avoid portland whenever possible actually.
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Post by kirkerik on Nov 9, 2012 7:25:14 GMT -8
I see three runs of ~10' long each? Are those tiles not 1' each? I bet it draws nice either way with that much chimney.
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Nov 10, 2012 20:09:41 GMT -8
This is the only one I have made and it was for myself.
Some people invest in cars, or the bar or guns or motorcycles, I like to invest into a house that will work now and 200 years down the road just as well. When I build something I think "how well is this going to hold up in 2200?" (I am shooting for 60R in the ceilings, 40R in the walls and my roof was done in hand hammered standing seam 40/1000 of an inch aluminum.)
Your measurements are about right, I prime the chimney in the last clean out when we only do one burn a day, to clean out the cold slug of air in the 6" outside chimney. Now that we are doing two burns a day we no longer need to prime.
Exhaust temps run about 100F but I only have condensate problems in the beginning of the year when the whole of the stove is cold and the outside temps are not that low.
Now that we do two burns a day and the outside temp is around freezing we have no condensation coming out of the cleanouts.
I intend to sculpt out the couch with mesh and mortar/stucco and then I will tile it in blue penny round. I am comfortable with working with concrete, brick and tile. I don't have any experience with cob. The concrete and rebar/mess ensure that the floor can take the weight and not cause any damage to the 1860's wood that supports it and the lime mortar foundation below it.
So far I am very happy with it, I had doubts but the whole family likes it much better than the old wood stove.
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Post by Robert on Dec 6, 2012 17:38:55 GMT -8
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Dec 10, 2012 4:58:25 GMT -8
I think the bottom hole you want to attach to was for cleanouts. I think you could do it but make sure you can take it apart easy once a year so you can clean out any fine ash that could be carried over. What is going into the chimney above the cleanout now?
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