water jacket

[ritburns]

Has anyone installed a water jacket in a wood stove .any insight or info would be nice with regards to how it works , can it be utilized with a oil hydronic system

I have a woodstove with a water jacket on it that I use exclusively to heat my home. I live in NH and have not burned oil for two years now. My house is 1600 sq ft. I have the water piped directly into my heating system. I have installed bypass valves to keep the oil burner from being heated.

Some things that I have done are:

Install an aquastat to circulate the heat, once temperature reaches a certain point.

Install a pressure releif valve piped to the outside.

Install a separate pressure tank.

Install it's own circulating pump.

Hope this helps. I heat my house for about $300.00/year

Rit

 

[killdozerd11]

I have a woodstove with a water jacket on it that I use exclusively to heat my home. I live in NH and have not burned oil for two years now. My house is 1600 sq ft. I have the water piped directly into my heating system. I have installed bypass valves to keep the oil burner from being heated.

Some things that I have done are:

Install an aquastat to circulate the heat, once temperature reaches a certain point.

Install a pressure releif valve piped to the outside.

Install a separate pressure tank.

Install it's own circulating pump.

Hope this helps. I heat my house for about $300.00/year

Rit

I Was watching a home improvement show a long while back and the concrete floor that they were going to pour had a type of plastic tubing laid out in a grid pattern in the forms and the concrete was poured around it suspending it mid thickness and this was used to heat the house by pumping hot water threw the tubing

sounds good to me

 

[spo307]

I Was watching a home improvement show a long while back and the concrete floor that they were going to pour had a type of plastic tubing laid out in a grid pattern in the forms and the concrete was poured around it suspending it mid thickness and this was used to heat the house by pumping hot water threw the tubing

sounds good to me[/QUOT

are you talking about radiant heat, I have that in my floors, 3/4 pex tubing, it is great for heating large tiled areas, or areas were you dont have enough wall space for base board

 

[Egon]

Seen a cast iron firebox insert for heating water in the local hardware store The other day.