[Fwd: Re: Cob: Wood stove in cob wall?]

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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