Hot air stoker in basement, capture heat to force upstairs
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- New Member
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Wed. Oct. 09, 2019 11:23 pm
- Location: Tamaqua
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Leisure line pioneer
- Coal Size/Type: rice
So I'm new here. Thought I would share how I heat my house with my stoker in the basement. I have a leisure line pioneer. Being new to coal stoves, I wanted to get the heat upstairs without wasting/loosing heat in an old stone basement. After thinking it through, this design has worked great now for 7 years.
1.Made a metal box, corrugated metal surround for stoker
2.On all outer sides of corrugated metal I have R 30 unfaced insulation
3have foil hard foam board covering over r30
4access door( no r 30 on door, juat metal and foam board)
5 back top half access door hinges upwards to fill stove hopper
6 have 2 pipes coming off top where factory stove blows air, blocked off front holes
7 One pipe goes into 8" flex that goes upstairs and splits off into every room of house
8 the other pipe is 6 inch and splits into all downstairs rooms in house except main living room
9 hole with 3rd 6" duct in top of metal box grabs whatever heat wasnt forced by stove fan and is sucked out by simple ducted internal fan to living room
10 a return 6" hole vent allows cold basement air into bottom of box
11coal trol thermo in living room, even temps in every room, extra hole in metal box has a 90 degreeelbow, lets heat ooz out into basement, basement stays about 55 to 60 all winter long. ( no wasted or excessive hot heat stuck in basement)
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- Member
- Posts: 8601
- Joined: Sat. May. 24, 2008 4:26 pm
- Location: Chester, NY
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: LL AnthraKing 180K, Pocono110K,KStokr 90K, DVC
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Invader 2
- Baseburners & Antiques: Wings Best, Glenwood #8(x2) Herald 116x
- Coal Size/Type: Rice,
- Other Heating: Heating Oil CH, Toyotomi OM 22
I get much more excited about a simple, cheap, setup where you have extracted as much as possible from the system than an overcomplex setup that involves a large capital outlay and more maintenance issues that are not often admitted to.After thinking it through, this design has worked great now for 7 years.
Not quite how I would do it but well done.
- 2001Sierra
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- Posts: 2211
- Joined: Wed. May. 20, 2009 8:09 am
- Location: Wynantskill NY, 10 miles from Albany
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Keystoker 90 Chimney vent
- Coal Size/Type: Rice
- Other Heating: Buderus Oil Boiler 3115-34
WOW you are creative. Are you looking for suggestions or improvements? If not I do not want to offend your setup. I do commend your results, but with my setup I am constantly tweeking things. Because I can