Post by lostsoul on Jul 29, 2012 14:24:01 GMT -8
Hello everyone and let me begin by thanking you for taking the time to read this thread. I'm from upstate New York where typically we have very hard winters and was forced to due without heat (other than a portable electric heater) last winter as my furnace died at some point during the prior summer.
I was very fortunate in the fact that we had quite a mild winter in comparison to most and the main water pipe didn't freeze. I believe this is due to the hot water heater being right next to it and keeping it from freezing while heating the water for my home. However at the beginning of this summer my hot water heater started leaking very badly and I was forced to turn it off, which means that if I can't figure out some way of heating this place or at a minimum heating the area where the main water pipe comes in to my house I'm destined to be in an even worse situation next year.
I have almost completely finished reading the rocket stove book and have been reading many of the posts on this forum to learn as much as I can however it seems as though building a rocket heater can be quite tricky and I would appreciate anyone willing to offer me some expertise as I have very little extra money and am running out of time to finish this before the snow will be here.
I work 7 days a week, but only bring home $170 (and that is working 40+ hours) so the components of the stove will need to be purchased in small amounts. This week I'm getting two 55 gallon steel drums. Next week and the following my checks will have to pay bills and after that I will be purchasing the fire brick and possibly also the vermiculite.
Also, just figured I would toss this out there as well, my oven died about five years ago also. I purchased an electric portable oven but if this could also be incorporated in with this project that would be absolutely marvelous.
I should likely also give you some specifics about my home. It is quite a small ranch style house (2 1/2 bedrooms - 1 bath) build on a cement slab. The furnace is natural gas and no chimney exists, only the vent through the roof for the furnace and water heater.
I was thinking an 8 inch system would be more than enough, and would like to have a pot of oil I can put on the top and keep warm which I could use a pump and circulate it through a pipe which I could then wrap around the water pipe to hopefully keep that from freezing. I am unsure what to do for a mass at this point.
The oven I would build separately as the portable electric oven I bought still works and the priority is heat (unless everything can be built in to one unit, but I doubt that as from what I've read they are basically two different types of stoves).
Again, thanks for taking your time to read this thread and any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. (Sorry, I realize my grammar is terrible.)
I was very fortunate in the fact that we had quite a mild winter in comparison to most and the main water pipe didn't freeze. I believe this is due to the hot water heater being right next to it and keeping it from freezing while heating the water for my home. However at the beginning of this summer my hot water heater started leaking very badly and I was forced to turn it off, which means that if I can't figure out some way of heating this place or at a minimum heating the area where the main water pipe comes in to my house I'm destined to be in an even worse situation next year.
I have almost completely finished reading the rocket stove book and have been reading many of the posts on this forum to learn as much as I can however it seems as though building a rocket heater can be quite tricky and I would appreciate anyone willing to offer me some expertise as I have very little extra money and am running out of time to finish this before the snow will be here.
I work 7 days a week, but only bring home $170 (and that is working 40+ hours) so the components of the stove will need to be purchased in small amounts. This week I'm getting two 55 gallon steel drums. Next week and the following my checks will have to pay bills and after that I will be purchasing the fire brick and possibly also the vermiculite.
Also, just figured I would toss this out there as well, my oven died about five years ago also. I purchased an electric portable oven but if this could also be incorporated in with this project that would be absolutely marvelous.
I should likely also give you some specifics about my home. It is quite a small ranch style house (2 1/2 bedrooms - 1 bath) build on a cement slab. The furnace is natural gas and no chimney exists, only the vent through the roof for the furnace and water heater.
I was thinking an 8 inch system would be more than enough, and would like to have a pot of oil I can put on the top and keep warm which I could use a pump and circulate it through a pipe which I could then wrap around the water pipe to hopefully keep that from freezing. I am unsure what to do for a mass at this point.
The oven I would build separately as the portable electric oven I bought still works and the priority is heat (unless everything can be built in to one unit, but I doubt that as from what I've read they are basically two different types of stoves).
Again, thanks for taking your time to read this thread and any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. (Sorry, I realize my grammar is terrible.)
