Heating an upstairs bed...

[wrekinwanderer]

Hi there,

My first post, so please excuse my ignorance. I've been doing a fair amount of research into rocket stoves over the past week or so, trying to absorb as much as I can from the web, as would love a masonry stove, but have little cash. We've just bought a thick-walled one-up, one-down stone house in Normandy, France which we intend to put a sun space on the front, straw bale extension on the side in time...


I've just finished reading Rocket Mass Heaters by Iantro Evans and Leslie Jackson 2007 that I downloaded, and still haven't seen an answer to my question, which probably just shows how dumb it is!

In all the examples that I've found the flue exits horizontally, of course this enables the use of the wonderful conductive properties to make a warm bench. Has anyone done this and then routed the flue pipe upstairs and under their bed? If the exhaust gases are too cool by then, would it be possible to just build greater mass downstairs around the barrel and then go straight up to the bedroom above.

All the examples I've seen so far are just on the ground floor...

Hope you can help enlighten me....

[canyon]

Sept 21, 2010 13:59:36 GMT -8 wrekinwanderer said:

Hi there,

In all the examples that I've found the flue exits horizontally, of course this enables the use of the wonderful conductive properties to make a warm bench. Has anyone done this and then routed the flue pipe upstairs and under their bed? If the exhaust gases are too cool by then, would it be possible to just build greater mass downstairs around the barrel and then go straight up to the bedroom above.

All the examples I've seen so far are just on the ground floor...

Hope you can help enlighten me....

You could certainly have your fire downstairs with some way of radiating (like a barrel) off the extreme temps before going up to mass on the floor above. One thing about a mass bed though, it is great for a nap or recharge book reading, love or whatever but more than a couple of hours and you start to dry out (dehydrate). I hope you plan on another bed for actual sleeping!

[wrekinwanderer]

Thanks for the info, canyon!

I hadn't thought of that side of the equation....