I could have held out another 2-3 weeks easy, but the wife wanted the stove started. So start her I did. Cheers to everyone here. Let's have a great wood burning season, and enjoy the warmth from all the hard work we've done to get here!!!
I look forward to the first fire and really enjoy heating with wood, but it won't happen today. Its 80 degrees today. Sent from my SM-G930VL using Tapatalk
hats off to ya bud out of curiosity with the water coil in the stove do u use it as hot water heater 2
I had it hooked up to an 80 gallon water tank for storage and it had a dump zone which was a loop of Pex tubing about 75' long. It was hard to control, and the stove made more heat than I needed. Even with the dump zone it blew water on the floor from the TC valve a couple of times. Not being home enough to baby it, I decided to just disconnect it.
We have had a couple fires but not today. Like Ronaldo it was 80 here today. Was sweating at the pumpkin patch with the family. Low 30s by next weekend!
Ha, ha, yeah. The past 2 years we had a blizzard hit on Oct 10th. Today, the 11th, its was about 80 here too.
I think the best solution would be a much larger storage tank which I don't have the room for, or a longer dump zone, like out into a detached garage, which I don't have. My fairly newly paved driveway (couple years ago) won't be getting torn up to add radiant heat lines underneath. LOL. Besides I love plowing and blowing snow too much, I don't want a bunch of slush!!! The best wood boilers seem to have water jackets surrounding them. If I get a new stove, I think I may get one like that.
