How can I make my wood stove more efficient?
I live in a country where central heating hasn't quite caught on yet. We have a wood stove, but it seems like such a waste to me. Maybe 90 percent of the heat goes up through the pipe. I've heard of hooking it up to the water to heat water, are there any more ideas to make it more effiecient? Like a fan mechanism or something?
They sell fans for that problem.
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They sell fans for that problem.
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Do you have a damper in the stove pipe? This will help reduce the amount of heat going up the chimney.
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A redesign of the stove itsself is about the only effective way to improve it's efficiency. There are newer ones that are double-walled and have an electric blower installed that picks up heat from between the walls and blows it out into the room. Another device is, as you mentioned, one that encases the inner wall with water pipes and by means of an electric pump, circulates that through radiators around the room's baseboards. Yet another useful device is a small bake oven that is incorporated into the stovepipe a few inches above the stove itsself. It does not hinder the exhaust of the smoke and gases from the fire while it provides a convenient means of baking a 5-inch by five-inch by nine-inch loaf of bread.
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The single biggest thing you can do is control the amount of air going into and out of the stove. Have a damper on the chimney pipe and an air controling the intake of the stove. You should only give it the air it needs to burn, any more is wasted by going out the chimney.
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they actually make a wood stove that is outside and is hooked to the ductwork in your house and works on a thermostat just like a furnace but is expensive.if you have an older woodstove try closing the damper halfway after your fire gets hot.you could turn your ceiling fan backward to spread the heat through the house and they do make blower fans for some stoves
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Get a good fire going at first, a fire takes oxygen to get going (about an hour). After that is done close the damper as much as possible, close the doors on the wood burner and the vents on the front of the wood burner too. This will reduce the fire to a slow steady burn-using less wood. The key is to get a good glowing ash base. This is where the heat comes from. Put a kettle with water on top of the wood burner. This will help keep moister in the air, the more moister the warmer it will feel…humidity. And it will help reduce static electricity.
Close any vents to rooms in your house that you are not using and shut the doors too. Turn on the whole house fan on your thermostat to keep the warm air moving in your house.
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By doing this my 2,000 sf house is at a temp of 68-70 with out running my heat pump at all. Sometimes our bedrooms get chilly, nothing that a few extra blankets cant cure.
have a mountian stove installed a blower on it now it runs us out ,
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