[Fwd: Re: Cob: Wood stove in cob wall?]
D.J. Henman
henman at it.to-be.co.jp
Tue May 20 03:44:34 CDT 2003
I think Amanda meant this for the whole group, so I am forwarding it.
By the way I agree with her statement that using outside air for the
burner is better. This is because you don't want you warmed room air
to get sucked out through the chimney. So pipe in air for inside burners.
If you really want to get the most heat out of a stove however, you
would place it in the center of the building. Why? Because it will
radiate heat in all directions, heating all of the house. If you place
it on an outside wall, a lot of heat energy is going to be conducted and
radiated outside.
Darel
Here's Amanda's message:
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Subject: Re: Cob: Wood stove in cob wall?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:12:39 -0500
From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com>
Yep, outside air is better. It's easier if you are using a fireplace or a
built in place masonry stove to just run a pipe, maybe one on each side,
into the firebox, harder with a purchased metal wood stove. What I'd had
in mind, and been talked out of, was a masonry stove in, or just outside of
the wall, so you had to go outside to feed the fire, with a long horizontal
run through a cob bench to a vertical chimney at the end of the room.
Charmaine Taylor has talked me into a lime/clay/sawdust mortar for chinking,
with the paper mix as a nice finish. I think that she has some experience
with paper/lime as a surface coating, but she thought it would not be as
good for the volumne needed in chinking logs.
She's probably right, but I was just tired of arguing with the people I
wanted to have help me with this project on the stove, and a couple of
people have since told me how to handle a long vertical stove-pipe run.
....................
I've heard that you get better performance from wood burnering if you have
an outside source of air for the burning chamber and not use room air to
burn the fire.
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I think Amanda meant this for the whole group, so I am forwarding it.
By the way I agree with her statement that using outside air for the burner
is better. This is because you don't want you warmed room air to get sucked
out through the chimney. So pipe in air for inside burners.<br>
<br>
If you really want to get the most heat out of a stove however, you would
place it in the center of the building. Why? Because it will radiate
heat in all directions, heating all of the house. If you place it on an
outside wall, a lot of heat energy is going to be conducted and radiated
outside.<br>
<br>
Darel<br>
<br>
Here's Amanda's message:<br>
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Yep, outside air is better. It's easier if you are using a fireplace or a
built in place masonry stove to just run a pipe, maybe one on each side,
into the firebox, harder with a purchased metal wood stove. What I'd had
in mind, and been talked out of, was a masonry stove in, or just outside of
the wall, so you had to go outside to feed the fire, with a long horizontal
run through a cob bench to a vertical chimney at the end of the room.
Charmaine Taylor has talked me into a lime/clay/sawdust mortar for chinking,
with the paper mix as a nice finish. I think that she has some experience
with paper/lime as a surface coating, but she thought it would not be as
good for the volumne needed in chinking logs.
She's probably right, but I was just tired of arguing with the people I
wanted to have help me with this project on the stove, and a couple of
people have since told me how to handle a long vertical stove-pipe run.
....................
I've heard that you get better performance from wood burnering if you have
an outside source of air for the burning chamber and not use room air to
burn the fire.
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