Post by edinburgher on Jul 4, 2012 0:03:07 GMT -8
I just joined the forum, it looks like there is alot to learn from old threads which I will work my way through. I thought I would introduce myself & explain where I am now with plans for a heater. If anyone has suggestions for relevant threads or comments it would be great to hear from you.
My skills are ceramics, kiln building, mould making, woodwork, building & masonry. Not metalwork unfortunately. My Edinburgh (Scotland) home is centrally heated so a massive whole house heater is not required, but I have a newly rebuilt stone chimney & a large fireplace in the sitting room. I envisage a neat, fairly compact stove, on the existing hearth to warm that room for an evening & reduce the need to use to central heating. I also have a workshop which could use a little stove. The efficiency of the rocket principle is very attractive & I would really enjoy making the stove myself.
I just read Ianto Evans' book. I have plans by De Twaalf Ambachten for a cast refractory concrete stove, & I like the Stonestove by Dirk van Hoff at Weltevree, also impressed by Romanian tiled stoves on U-Tube.
I am thinking of a boxy affair, classic J shape, open vertical feed- no door (what a price to buy!), perhaps a bar or cage to contain long fuel. After the heat riser direct flow down both sides rather than a barrel to keep overall depth to a minimum. All built from refractory concrete, firebrick, maybe ceramic fibre blanket. Exhaust will have to connect to 7m of flue liner, although a low level discharge is possible in the workshop.
Thanks for reading, Edinburgher
P.S. I have just seen Peter van den Berg's stove posts, his cast rocket stove core & very stylish shell are a very impressive development of the rocket idea, suitable for many modern homes.
My skills are ceramics, kiln building, mould making, woodwork, building & masonry. Not metalwork unfortunately. My Edinburgh (Scotland) home is centrally heated so a massive whole house heater is not required, but I have a newly rebuilt stone chimney & a large fireplace in the sitting room. I envisage a neat, fairly compact stove, on the existing hearth to warm that room for an evening & reduce the need to use to central heating. I also have a workshop which could use a little stove. The efficiency of the rocket principle is very attractive & I would really enjoy making the stove myself.
I just read Ianto Evans' book. I have plans by De Twaalf Ambachten for a cast refractory concrete stove, & I like the Stonestove by Dirk van Hoff at Weltevree, also impressed by Romanian tiled stoves on U-Tube.
I am thinking of a boxy affair, classic J shape, open vertical feed- no door (what a price to buy!), perhaps a bar or cage to contain long fuel. After the heat riser direct flow down both sides rather than a barrel to keep overall depth to a minimum. All built from refractory concrete, firebrick, maybe ceramic fibre blanket. Exhaust will have to connect to 7m of flue liner, although a low level discharge is possible in the workshop.
Thanks for reading, Edinburgher
P.S. I have just seen Peter van den Berg's stove posts, his cast rocket stove core & very stylish shell are a very impressive development of the rocket idea, suitable for many modern homes.