Wood Boiler / Storage Shelter Ideas? Tips? before I build.

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Gloves and all, she looks ready.

 

Waiting for more pallets from a solar job to continue

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All this wood cost me 100 bucks. It's been sitting covered for 4 years.

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Installed pipes today. Found my downspout drain and sump pump drain

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what are the depth of those pipes meaning above or below frost line?

 

Depth is 24 inches.

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Maybe at frost line. I am from Boston area. 2 ft frost is average I believe

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Got a question. Once In the house. What type of pex should be used? Oxygen barrier or non oxygen?

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Not sure if this will help, but here goes.



I built a wood shed around my OWB when I first installed it. Here's what I like and wished I had done differently.

I wish it were bigger! This is always the case with any building, but true enough here.
Concrete floor - it's strong, it's level, it won't wash away and I can sweep or blow it out
I put a metal roof on mine - zero maintamence
I have 10' ceilings - makes it hard to reach the wood on top if stacked all the way up
I went 10x30 - wish it were bigger (did I mention that?)
The OWB "bay" is 10'x10'. I wish I had more room around the boiler
I should have put in a lockable storage area for my saws, oil, chains, etc (saws ain't cheap)
Friend who owns Local saw mill milled the wood for me - cedar from old telephone poles - looks great to me
Initially I wanted the back sided, glad I didnt get to that - I like the added air flow with it open
If you are enclosing your OWB in a building, I'd make 100% you have enough draft to carry smoke outside when the door is open
I should have gone bigger

Hope this helps

 

So to rephrase Sawdog says go BIGGER!

 

You sure are perceptive!

 

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We got the heat exchanger tied in.

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Glad to see your project is coming along LongPond. Looking good! I am going to ask you a question, not to be a pain in the azz, but to try to help. Is there a way you could add another 12" of dirt on top of your underground piping? Without putting the weight of a machine on top of them of course. Or some other way you could help with insulation factor of your pipes?

 

There will be maybe 10 inches added to the top. I have 5 inches of loam to add plus I have to raise the grade up also

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Can't tell from the pic but you do have the heat exchanger hooked up so the flows are going in opposite directions don't you?

 

I have the supply from wood boiler on bottom on heat exchanger. The return from house is on the top. Will that work?

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