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- From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Wood Heating
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 09:52:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- For the homeowner who wants to or has to do his own repairs,
- piped water heating is going to be a challenge.
- Especially when pipes running through walls develop leaks, etc.
- More sensible planning for a wood/coal and oil combo furnace
- is to have all piping located in the basement with channeling
- to provide concentrated access by floor vents to upper
- floor levels.
- Thus no piping need be installed in living areas.
- There are other sensible solutions but I think this one is
- preferable.
- Wood furnaces still have a ways to go in design to burn
- even longer and even temperatures with a variety of wood
- types, and with minimum smoke as well.
- For those who would rather not stoke in a basement situation,
- an even better plan is to build a masonry firehouse some
- yards away from house, lay pipes deep enough and insulated
- to prevent freezing, pipes enter basement or crawlspace
- and heat is accessed again through floor vents, thus
- eliminating the need for pipes in living area.
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- Capt. Kirk: let's head for that planet, third from the sun, it
- looks promising.... |-)
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