Walltherm Woodstove Installation
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2015
- Installed the Walltherm in the family rm by piping it to the domestic water heat exchanger on my disconnected New Yorker oil fired boiler. From there it is circulated to the floor. About 30% of the heat goes direct to the room n the rest is stored in the floor mass for slow dispersion. Just burning poplar. 3 - 4 hrs to a load n 3 charges per day will do me most winter days. I use a 12k heat pump above freezing a lot of the time.
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Thanks for the video. What’s your thoughts now 3 years later? Still happy with the way the stove delivers? Any suggestions? Thanks.
Still love it. Fiddling with better brushes n using a drill to power them for cleaning the tubes. The lever for diverting the smoke n flame down is a tad flimsy where it connects to the flap. Still working but could let go any time. Definitely more maintenance then a regular stove but to me it’s worth it. I don’t do all that vacuuming they recommend. I just use a paint brush n some scrapers. Start at the top n brush scrape everything down to the bottom n then scoop it out. I don’t start it a charge it their way either. Too much fiddling. Sure like it when it runs steady n the floors get nice n warm.
Still love it. Fiddling with better brushes n using a drill to power them for cleaning the tubes. The lever for diverting the smoke n flame down is a tad flimsy where it connects to the flap. Still working but could let go any time. Definitely more maintenance then a regular stove but to me it’s worth it. I don’t do all that vacuuming they recommend. I just use a paint brush n some scrapers. Start at the top n brush scrape everything down to the bottom n then scoop it out. I don’t start it a charge it their way either. Too much fiddling. Sure like it when it runs steady n the floors get nice n warm.
The lever for the flap did break off. Will try to post the repair.
I wanted to see the 12k heat pump ... !
What's the deal with this brand? Discontinued in the US? Where do you buy it?
Very good stove. How much is the wood consumption? Thanks
I burn about 3 full cords of just softwood over the heating season. A load in the stove, of softwood, will burn about 3 hrs. Hardwood will go closer to 5 hrs. You do have to have very dry wood and it is cut quite small. I cut mine 12", split it quite small and dry it for a year. Burns really clean and efficient so I think it's worth the extra effort to get the wood right. I also burn almost all my little sticks from the branches. Since it controls its burn so well stuff that would normally just go poof will burn a long time and very hot. Love it.
Randy Perry thanks for the answer 👍😊
If I may ask, what is the cost of the stove and controls arrangement?
+John Knochelmann3
I'm thinking I'm in for about 8000 Cdn for the stove, tax, fittings, piping. I came with all the controls.
mine was $7500 cdn shipped to the west coast.
Well, I did't see this one come in, last year, oops. Sorry. But I was looking at about 7500.00 CDN plus about 500.00 for the extra piping and parts to get me tied into my heat exchanger for the floor. I'm thinking I'm going to bypass the heat exchanger now and go straight to the floor.
Hi. Any chance you can tell me the size of the orifice between the upper and lower burn chamber and also the flue size. I want to build one and you'd really be helping me out.
Good day. I like to build things too but this would require some serious reverse engineering. For example the 'orifice' that your asking about is a series of cast iron grates with angled openings that feed the super heated air back into the base of the fire and down through another grate with openings. Even the exhaust damper that changes the direction of flow down through to the grates is a unique design that I haven't fully explored. Plus there's a heat exchanger on the back of the stove where the heat from the lower burn chamber passes up through. It's a boiler as well so has a number of safety features built in. You're going to have to do some serious engineering to build this.
@@randeb1974 Hi thanks for the response. Im actually a fabricator and build stoves for a living so this is right up my street 😊 I won't be building a boiler into it, it'll actually just be to heat my greenhouse in winter. I understand the workings of it quite well I'm just unsure of the relation between the "orifice" and the flue.
@@randeb1974 Ill actually be making it MORE complicated by combining this with rocket mass heater principles to use the exhaust gasses to heat a bench
Great project and I’m happy to help. Perhaps you could find the manual for this stove on line where it shows n describes it function. Rocket stoves as you know do some gasification but this stove takes it to a higher level by reintroducing the super heated gas back into the burning base coals. An excellent draft is essential to its function. I can provide pictures of the parts the next time I clean it.
You should check out this guy. ua-cam.com/video/MTDzdzPv9Lk/v-deo.html
Does smoke and odor come out into the room if you open the door to stoke the flame?
It would if you forgot to open the damper first. Generally you don’t add wood till the cycle is complete to maximize the clean burn.
Are you interested in selling the walltherm wood boiler?
Oh gracious no. It amazes me every time I flip the flap n it kicks into smoke burning mode.