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fan which forces air through a hot hot, it feeds back to the house to a pre-
water coil. The hot air is then blown existing hot water tank.
into the room to heat it. We did not have an indoor hot
We did not want the noise of the fan water tank. We hooked our hot water
coil unit. We opted instead to hook the directly to our faucets. When we turn
stove up to baseboards. Baseboards on our tap, the water that comes out is
have the reputation of bathing a room scalding. Water that hot can be dan-
in heat, the warmth gently radiating up gerous to children, however, so its
along the walls. Baseboards keep the best to connect to a hot water tank.
heat near the floor, where cold toes sit When our stove was delivered, the
resting on winter nights. Because manufacturers instructions recom-
baseboards operate passively, they do mended it be set on a concrete slab at
not raise electricity consumption. least 10 feet, but no more than 100
To provide for domestic hot water, a feet, from the house. If two buildings Our original plumbing system.
cold water line is fitted to the copper were to be heated, the stove was to be
coil that rests in the walls of water that spaced equidistant between them. return the cold water back to the
surround the stove. The cold water is Ours is 80 feet from our house and 70 stove, two complete and separate
then heated to 180 degrees while cir- feet from our barn. loops of pipe are laid. The pipe needs
culating through the copper coil. Once To bring the hot water for heat and to be made of polybutylene so that it
domestic hot water to the house and to wont corrode, leak at joints or deteri-
orate from the sustained 180 degree
Cold H2O line Hot H2O to water. All fittings must be made of
supplying Return pipe from house for
domestic hot copper or brass, never steel (cast iron
baseboard baseboards
H2O or galvanized). No rust must ever
Hot H2O to house enter the system.
110V electric To lay the loops of polybutylene
for domestic use
pipe, a trench from the stove to the
house is dug. The trench must be dug
deep enough that the pipe will lay
below the frost line. The trench will
contain the two loops of pipe, an elec-
End view of pipe tric line and a thermostat wire.
Schedule 20 Schedule 35 We set up our loops differently than
recommended by the manufacturer
(see diagram #1). The manufacturer
House recommends laying three of the four
polybuytlene pipes into a schedule 35
Stove back pipe to provide additional insulation.
Baseboards They say that the cold water line that
feeds the loop for domestic hot water,
Baseboards
Vent holes
Sheet of aluminum
Poly pipe
Copper pipe
Poly pipe
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