RMH shed with fan

[danag]

I am considering building a RMH in a seperate insulated shed with a lot of mass to heat up. Then ducting it into my house. I would run the house duct inside the Cob/gravel etc. along with the exhaust duct to help with heat transfer. I would then feed it into the house via insulated duct with a duct fan. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.

[morpho]

I thought about it as well, but to be honest I figured it would be a pain in the arse in the end.
And after spending two years with mine inside the house...well....I just couldn't imagine it being somewhere else, both for the joy of having it there and the logistics of having to go out and feed it.
The stove takes tending and sometimes a keen eye on the positioning of the wood, how it has fallen into the feed tube, whether the thick stuff is near the front or back, whether the split wood has the curve to the back of the tube or not etc. (let me say this is my experience with my rocket...yours might and most likely will be different than mine.)

But if you think it will work for you...I suggest you give it a try...and let everyone here know how it goes.

good luck.

[brentw]

I am looking at doing the same sort of thing. I have a detached single stall garage that I am currently insulating and then I will start building my RMH. I intend to coil copper tubing around the chimney and plumb that into the house. I would like to run that to the water heater and to a heat exchanger above my forced air furnace. I have seen that done on some commercial outdoor wood stoves. The big questions that I have to answer are pipe diameter, location, length of coils, and flow rate. Any ideas would be great.

[grizbach]

brentw,
Time to take baby steps. Have you operated a RMH?
Those are grand ideas, but these heaters can be fussy. Also the theory behind them is to extract most of the heat out of a given amount of fuel. What you are suggesting will have some efficency drop. I don't feel the work would be worth the payoff.
grizbach