permaculture

[Niels <mudguard@gmail.com>]

Aprovecho have a premilinary document on space heating.

I post it here.

N*

John Schinnerer wrote:

> Aloha,
>
> Design of stove does matter - some are better than others at burning 
> long & slow (so that for example there are coals left in the morning 
> instead of having to start fire from scratch again).
> Overnight slow burn from a stove loaded and turned down at bedtime is 
> not at all unreasonable.  Dunno if 24 hrs is possible.  My experience 
> living with wood heat roughly matches this (with a good stove, otherwise 
> YMMV for sure!):
>
> > I feed mine about three times a day in the coldest (-10 F) weather.
>
> Quality of draft through stovepipe also matters - a knowledgeable 
> woodstove shop and/or chimney sweep can help with this.
>
> Beware of microclimates that negatively impact draft, especially during 
> storms (when you most want it to work well... :-).  For example a 
> building situated in an area that gets lots of downdraft during windy 
> storms may have problems with poor draft and backdraft in high winds, 
> that sort of thing.
>
> Look into masonry heaters/thermal mass heaters - they can use "scrap" 
> and small/coppice wood, don't necessarily need high quality stove logs. 
>  They have a relatively short and very hot burn and slow release of 
> heat, maybe that will fit your needs?
>
> cheers,
> John S.
>
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