Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

homestead - Re: [Homestead] Wood-fired water heating

homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Homestead mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Wood-fired water heating
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:20:33 -0700


On Oct 23, 2008, at 3:00 PM, bob ford wrote:

Gene, I found these (6) listed in countryside. I have no idea if one or more will have what you need. .....bobford

http://centralboiler.com/

http://charmaster.com/

http://hardyheater.com/

http://www.greenwoodusa.com/index.php

http://lamppakuuma.com/

http://heatmor.com/

Bob, thank you for making that effort. These are all big home-heating units intended to be installed outside the home and are very expensive to a homesteader mindset. They send heat to the house via water in insulated pipes. I bought plans to build one--it may have been called Hhasa or something like that--several decades ago. Should I decide on that design I would build it and save thousands.

Years ago a builder friend built a house for a lady who wanted hot water heated by wood. I looked at the unit and it was not much bigger than a typical electric- or gas-fired water heater that all urban houses use. Looked like a skinny upright cast iron heating stove. That's what I am looking for.

The thing about the big units, other than the multiple-thousand-dollar price, is that they are designed for winter. They will heat a house plus provide domestic hot water. But hot water is needed year round. To keep throwing wood into these big units would be pretty inefficient from about April through October at Heartwood.





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page