[TheForge] Re: Heating with woodstove OT

[Mike Spencer]

Thanks for the numbers on your heating setup, Ralph.  It'll give me a
starting point to ask questions here.  I expect to do something for
heat in my 1200 sq. ft. shop this year.  Ten ft. ceiling and an upper
story where Peggy has her looms.  We need to heat her 600 sq. ft. more
than mine -- weaving is fiddly finger-work and/or sitting-down work)
but it would be nice to have my space up to 50 (or at least 40)
deg. F.  And I can't afford $400/mo propane bills either.

Despite heating the house with wood, I don't want to go with an indoor
wood stove in the shop.  Don't want oil.  Mumble.....mutter.

On the original question, I found that a 50-gal oil drum wood stove
would get my previous shop up to comfy (for all but fiddly little
finger-work) in about four hours, starting with all that iron
heat-sink at ambient -- say, 5 to 20 deg. F.  Interior walls but no
insulation. If I'd had New England/N. Dakota outdoor temps of 20 to 40
below, It would have been totally useless.  Our coldest spells here
are c. -10 F. at night, 0 daytime.  Maybe 15 to 20 deg warmer
than northern NH.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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