FLOOR HEAT DIY
Are there any designs using a fireplace to heat a home?
Hey guys,
I was sitting in the lounge at our country farm, and had the fire going, and I was just wondering; we only use a very small proportion of the energy generated by the fire. Imagine if you could heat water, do under floor heating and ware up the home as a whole all from your fireplace!?
It just seems to be an awful waste to let all that energy get released into the atmosphere without making better use of it!
Therefore, are there any companies that make and/or design these sorts of systems? I would never buy one ’cause I’m a great fan of DIY, but I need some ideas. Just trying to do my bit to save energy. I’m not into the whole solar heating and biomass story, just out of personal preference. So ya, any ideas?
Regards 
You have to have an airtight ’stove’ to begin the quest of ‘what more can I do with it? ‘ story. I seen how to cast a copper water pipe coil into plaster, that you apply to the side of an airtight stove, that heated the water in a typical hot water supply tank. 2 ways of water circulation and transfer (to the tank) do work. 1 requires a circulation pump and the other works naturally. For the system to be efficient requires that the ’stove’ is allways hot. Free hot water means sending that hot water to radiators in far-away rooms. It also meens a tub filled with water ,great to bathe in. An air-tight stove, that can give 200,000 btu, is a great place to start, in a 1500sq ft home, to do double duty. I found that a ’stove’, that will take 18inch wood, is a great start to make all this work. A stove that makes ash removal a cinch, is a stove that makes the winter a pleasure to endure.
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