i have this idea that involves building a home around a central, wood fired stove/furnace/mass heater that is set on a concrete slab then taking a prefabbed exhaust or stove pipe that consists of a small diameter casing (5 inch or so) inside a larger diameter casing like 9 5/8". The void between or annulus, would be like an inch and a half all the way around. (It would be a little less maybe go 5 inch inside 13 3/8. Doesn't matter as long as your inner casing is proper size for exhaust. Anyways, they typically come in 40 ish ft joints and are easy to find with all the old oilfield scrap yards around. Maybe you'd weld some fins or centralizing tabs on the outside of the inner jt. Slide that badboy inside and probably tack it. Don't think you'd want to deal weld the two. Next slide 8 copper or stainless 3/4 inch lines from end to end. Put fittings on the ends. Call your buddy with a big ass excavator and other sweet mechanical advantages. Get that thing hanging and drop it 8 or ten ft into the hole you augered. Poor concrete, probably some rebar anchors and get it plumb. Have a window cut out and a channel with some kind of sealing face that you will but your firebox to and seal weld it so your exhaust flows from the box into the inside jt only.obviously not super simple so far but actually not difficult for me and my bros. Now you should have a vertical column with a big ass stove incorporated all acting as a center point and anchor for your building. Oh yeah. Fabricate some kind of header/manifold into the stove/mortar as well as another at the top. Imagine 8 1 inch copper lines coming out like a crown then route them out and down then at each of my two floors, lay several loops as you would standard in floor heating. Pex would probably be fine for this, eventually each line will loop back to the stove. Fill lines with glycol and you should have passive/convection in floor heat. I would also weld hangers around the column to support the middle of the first floor (not counting basement) loft would also hang of column partially and a guy could even weld hangers for some nice stair treads and have a little spiral staircase going up. It would be ideal if you could build a multi fuel firebox that you could plumb in a feed line for wood pellets that was thermostat controlled to auger pellets in like a traeger out of a large hopper outside the house. Probably a oil drip as well to utilize the used oil a guy tends to collect. I wonder if it would be better to fill annulus with sand or something. I know it's unconventional but I think I could build it to be efficient, effective and make it look real nice too. It would be like a center piece of the home. An exposed column. Would the outside get too hot to touch. What if you filled it with sand? Could you also run some heavy gauge wiring and maybe a half inch hardline for compressed air for blowing the dust bunnies off those tough to reach places? Maybe a big central vac in the basement with the stove and have another line with a couple side ports to hook up a vacuum hose. It would have to be one and done and once that inside rotted out(long after my kids are gone) you'd have to burn the house down with some a few banker Friedman's in there to give it that classic feel. Anyway. I don't want to hear why it won't work. Counts. I want to hear how I can do it. Like some engineer get me some load ratings and thermal transfer and at what point will the friction in the lines be too much for the coolant to convect on it's own. Don't be gay. Eat shit fags
i have this idea that involves building a home around a central, wood fired stove/furnace/mass heater that is set on a concrete slab then taking a prefabbed exhaust or stove pipe that consists of a small diameter casing (5 inch or so) inside a larger diameter casing like 9 5/8". The void between or annulus, would be like an inch and a half all the way around. (It would be a little less maybe go 5 inch inside 13 3/8. Doesn't matter as long as your inner casing is proper size for exhaust. Anyways, they typically come in 40 ish ft joints and are easy to find with all the old oilfield scrap yards around. Maybe you'd weld some fins or centralizing tabs on the outside of the inner jt. Slide that badboy inside and probably tack it. Don't think you'd want to deal weld the two. Next slide 8 copper or stainless 3/4 inch lines from end to end. Put fittings on the ends. Call your buddy with a big ass excavator and other sweet mechanical advantages. Get that thing hanging and drop it 8 or ten ft into the hole you augered. Poor concrete, probably some rebar anchors and get it plumb. Have a window cut out and a channel with some kind of sealing face that you will but your firebox to and seal weld it so your exhaust flows from the box into the inside jt only.obviously not super simple so far but actually not difficult for me and my bros. Now you should have a vertical column with a big ass stove incorporated all acting as a center point and anchor for your building. Oh yeah. Fabricate some kind of header/manifold into the stove/mortar as well as another at the top. Imagine 8 1 inch copper lines coming out like a crown then route them out and down then at each of my two floors, lay several loops as you would standard in floor heating. Pex would probably be fine for this, eventually each line will loop back to the stove. Fill lines with glycol and you should have passive/convection in floor heat. I would also weld hangers around the column to support the middle of the first floor (not counting basement) loft would also hang of column partially and a guy could even weld hangers for some nice stair treads and have a little spiral staircase going up. It would be ideal if you could build a multi fuel firebox that you could plumb in a feed line for wood pellets that was thermostat controlled to auger pellets in like a traeger out of a large hopper outside the house. Probably a oil drip as well to utilize the used oil a guy tends to collect. I wonder if it would be better to fill annulus with sand or something. I know it's unconventional but I think I could build it to be efficient, effective and make it look real nice too. It would be like a center piece of the home. An exposed column. Would the outside get too hot to touch. What if you filled it with sand? Could you also run some heavy gauge wiring and maybe a half inch hardline for compressed air for blowing the dust bunnies off those tough to reach places? Maybe a big central vac in the basement with the stove and have another line with a couple side ports to hook up a vacuum hose. It would have to be one and done and once that inside rotted out(long after my kids are gone) you'd have to burn the house down with some a few banker Friedman's in there to give it that classic feel. Anyway. I don't want to hear why it won't work. Counts. I want to hear how I can do it. Like some engineer get me some load ratings and thermal transfer and at what point will the friction in the lines be too much for the coolant to convect on it's own. Don't be gay.
Eat shit fags
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