We would like to switch from propane forced air to wood heat that would heat our hot water too. Does anyone have any recommendations or ideas that they have tried? Thanks

-- Cathy Benson (1024@nethawk.com), December 29, 2000

Answers

I have seen wood cook stoves in the Lehman's catalog that heat water in a tank.

-- Leann Banta (thelionandlamb@hotmail.com), December 29, 2000.

Hey Cath! Check out my webpage---www.countryboyenterprises.com. hoot. Matt. 24:44

-- hoot (hoot@pcinetwork.com), December 29, 2000.

Some years ago my wife and I lived in a duplex at a church camp in the mountains. In the center of the living room/kitchen/dining room area was a framed in space that housed on one end an electric forced air furnace, in the center a wood stove insert, and on the other end an electric hot water heater. When it was too warm to be burning wood, we had hot water and could use the furnace fan for ventilation. In the winter a small circulating pump circulated the water from the hot water tank through coils in the stove pipe and back into the tank. The furnace plenum went around the insert and stove pipe. We had forced air heat from the wood stove by using the furnace fan. This same arrangement would work with propane furnace and water tank. By combining furnace, wood stove, and hot water tank, you can always have heat, ventilation and hot water with whatever energy source makes the most sense at the time.

-- Skip Walton (sundaycreek@gnrac.net), December 31, 2000.

we just installed our new woodstove. It runs 10 radiators and a 70 liter water tank (hot) , with a contious supply of hot water. It has a little oven in it which works greeat (but not that big) and a rottiserre thing to cook wild (or tame) beasts on.

I don't know the name of the stove but just want to let you know that they exsist and are just wonderful. (I finally have heat in my bathroom. YIPPPEEE!!)

-- kelly (kellytree@hotmail.com), January 01, 2001.

the outdoor wood furnaces are the way to go i have a Taylor and am very pleased with it there are about a dozen companies that make comparable unitsof variouse sizes. no wood mess carried in the house and no danger of fire or carbon monoxide

-- george darby (windwillow@fuse.net), January 01, 2001.

I agree with the outdoor wood furnace post. You get to keep the backup of gas and all the mess is without the house. I will have one when we get around to heating the new wood floors.

-- kirby johnson (kirbyj@deskmedia.com), January 02, 2001.

My home is curently heated by an oil based hot water system. Are there any companies offering indoor wood furnaces designed to work with home hot water based heating systems?

-- Sean Brooks (seanrbrooks@yahoo.ca), March 08, 2001.

Sean! Check Central Boilers website at www.centralboiler.com. Take a gander at the "Ezeeheat" model. It's an inside wood burnin boiler just like the outside units minus the outside skin. Matt.24:44

-- hoot (hoot@pcinetwork.com), March 08, 2001.