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My grandparents had a house heated by a coal stove that was built in the 1850s. I remember standing on those grates as a child to warm up - the direct heat coming through the grates was one of the best sensations on a cold morning.
I also use wood to heat my 2,800sqft home with a full basement and main floor 1400sqft per level. Our wood stove is actually a forced air indoor wood furnace by Sears and Roebuck. So it does use a bit of electricity to make the stove more efficient. Decent trade off I suppose. Anyway, I live in the foothills of the ozarks in southern Missouri. Old timers told me that 10 acres or more of forest on your land can supply enough dead fall to heat a farm house without ever cutting a live tree from the land. Considered that heavily when purchasing our farm. We bought 33 acres, 12a in forest 1.5a in ponds and the remaining mostly resembles large oak/ hardwood savanna. Soooooooo glad to be out of the Suburban neighborhood FINALLY!!lol. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge
If you plumbed a ball valve and entrance pipe into the opening for the air entrance of the fire box and drew in combustion air from the outside, you'll reduce convection of fresh air entering the building envelope. It can make a substantial difference.
Yes, and what also happens is that the heat builds up inside the house pushing the pressure against the windows preventing drafts of cold air that generally come from windows. I wish I had a diagram to explain for visual learning. With out air from the outside coming directly into the back of the stove directly to the inside of the stove, the stove draws its air from inside the house. This air that is drawn generally comes from Leaks in the envelope of the house. These leaks can be from poor window seals. This means the draft is caused by the sucking of air outside the windows to inside the house. BUT if you only draw air directly into the stove from the back, there is no cold air being sucked inside through the windows. What actually happens is that the heat from the stove pushes up against the windows and Prevents the draft of cold air being sucked into the house. Awesome science stuff! 🙏🇨🇦
I love the forethought that you've put into your heating system. The solution is fairly simple, but it's the sort of simplicity that only comes from good research, problem solving and application to create an efficient and practical solution. I also liked how the explanation of your system was highlighted with the cuteness of Figaro and Olivia! :)
Out of interest, do you still plan to install the hot water loop in the wood stove for a cheaper and/or alternative hot water source at some stage? I forgot to ask that on here yesterday... :)
One can always surmise the amount of research that you put into each of your projects... Well thought out and designed system. Not needed here in Central Texas, but valuable information nonetheless!
hi good morning beautiful family thanks for sharing its good to sit having breakfast and watching your great videos, such a great start to a beautiful day good morning Gina and Olivia have a wonderful day today, till tomorrow same place same time God bless beautiful family bye Olivia 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕.
Hang some 5/8ths type-X drywall over the stove, under the over-warmed bed rooms this will displace some of that unwanted heat to the other joist bays and up the stairs.
Great setup and awesome video. Sins my house is from the 1800 I had no control of where the woodstoves sits so I got 2 of them to heat the house but that works great to. The only thing is that all the mess ends up in our living area. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
8.15 just like when you make a snow cave you have to make a cold air drop, brilliant.... should do this as a job heating advisor because you're advice is brilliant. ...
I'm a master mason and I have to say that I enjoyed your video very much. It was nice to see someone take the time to understand the art of a good fireplace. :)
I'm a city person but with this Corona busy I'm looking to buy in the country and hired you to put in my stove and set it up to stay warm through out the house,,,just in case .. Electricity go out and I'm definitely getting one of those are high .. . Efficient... generators as well.....love .. Your presentation thank you...stay warm
Terrific. Dad built a mountain house years ago and I've tried to figure a way to to heat it when I retire. He had electric baseboard. You've given me great advice on how to do it. The down draft set up explains how to get the cool air into the basement. Putting in grates will be easy. Thanks.
Cooler air sinks down to the lower spaces because of its density. Warmer air floats/ gets pushed up on colder air. The colder air does all the pushing. Tear a narrow stip of fine tissue or toilet-type paper, hold one end and walk up the stairs to see all this
When I lived off grid I cooked on a bonfire. The way I baked was with two stainless steel bowls and two bricks. I put the two bricks in the bottom of one bowl and used the other bowl as a lid. I used aluminum foil to keep the bowls "sealed." This was big enough for an 8x8 pan or a bread pan, which is what I was using it for the most. I'm sure you could design something similar and more functional to use on the top of your stove so that you don't have to bake inside the fire box. Plus, you could always bake in your outdoor kitchen in the cook stove ;)
Back when I lived in the Sierras we used a much smaller convection stove to heat 1200 sq ft and it would COOK YOU OUT! Very effective means of heating!
Nice job of explaining the heating system in your beautiful home! You should have recommended your video on how you store your firewood for drying and easy access in winter, that video is an excellent one also. God Bless
Here is a thought. I have a passive solar house with a heat pump with back up resistance heating. and a wood stove. The woodstove is on the main floor of a 2 story house with a garage under. The master bedroom is over the stove and the flue is internal and runs up through a walk in closet, it is a zero clearance chimney and it is enclosed. Where you have the floor joists exposed under you bedrooms I have a v-groove pine board ceiling. With the heat on bust under the floor the bedrooms are a nice 16-17c, 60-62f with the bedroom doors closed. With the doors open I can get 22-23c in the bedrooms when it is 24c on the main floor. An unheated room in the basement, with 2" of foam outside and 4" spray on foam inside is 10c. I heat another storage room to 17c, it is under the kitchen so I think of it as a bonus warm floor. The rest of the floor on the main floor has 9" of spray in foam, long story, I did not pay extra for the excess, it is always a warm floor. Under is a largely unheated garage/shop/wood storage. PS: the entire envelope of the house has 5.5" of spray on foam unless noted. The entire basement exterior below grade has a layer of 2" foam board (Cladmate). The basement has 4" sprayed foam behind gyprock. Moral of story, put something on the joists under the bedrooms to prevent direct conduction of heat from below. That dead air space, although lousy insulation, will knock 10f degrees off the bedroom temps. Something with fewer holes than a T&g product might knock off even more heat penetration. My normal cold temps here are only in the 20-35f range but it is very windy.
We designed our house around the stove as well, but it is not as big of a house (about 1500 sq. ft. with no basement) and it is super insulated. We go through less than a cord of wood a year, so we have a much smaller stove. Our stove is at the base of the stairway and the pipe goes straight up through the house. It has a clean-out tee just above the stove itself.One thing we found is that with a well insulated house you need to be careful not to over feed the fire. A little goes a long way, and lower BTU woods like aspen actually work just fine.
Greetings from Wisconsin! First time watching your channel...I enjoyed watching 3 videos so far...Cannot wait to see how you started out homesteading...and more of your journey. Thanks for sharing!
I was getting ready to say that you should leave the air duct off the one vent so heat could go up through it, or use a screen door or something to let the heat escape the stairwell. (It looked like you had a full door because you couldn't see any light coming down the stairs.) Then I seen the gate you have at the top of the stairs, that was a great idea. I am new to your channel but I've been catching up lol. Seems like you really do things right the first time.
Thank you for the explaination of hot and cool vents. I've never seen this done and love the simplicity! You could always put a few fans in there if you wanted to. Very neat.
Thanks for the excellent explanation of your wood stove! Wish I would have had a stove like that when we lived in the north country! We live in the worm south now! Love watching your channel! God bless your family!
A lot of good planning went into heating your home. It reminds me of the 110 year-old home we lived in with a gas furnace and gravity heat. No fan necessary to move the heat through two floors. I loved how quiet it was.
Great manipulation of convection principles, I would insulate the floor directly above the stove and that will cool the bedroom floor and raise the temps of the other floors, thanks for sharing, brilliant work..
You know a lot of people are turned of to running the flue like you did ...but there is a lot to be said for ease of access and cleaning. When done right the way you have done it is something that anyone who would who is timid about climbing up on the roof and would push their luck by avoiding it should really consider . It is fast and easy to maintain with little to no mess in the house. I for one like it. I went with the tee inside of the house...but that is what the situation called for.
What an innovative house design for 3000 sq. ft. Really enjoyed your video & modern home steading concepts. I am an original Mother Earther, who lived off-grid back in the 70s. In 1980, I was 30, so please bear with me, if I appear to be somewhat out dated, compared to your home steading methods. Its all good stuff! We live a 1935 rural lifestyle in small town Americana. My husband is 4th generation NH farming. He is 72 and works every day on our 350 acre family farm, now owned by his brother.They are logging today. 35 Herefords currently in the barn, to answer your question of wintering your livestock. Many are calves/breeding stock. Our newly designed home, at the base of the farm, is 988 sq. ft. with walk-in basement that currently holds 5 cords of dry wood for two woodstoves, one air tight in cellar, one vintage kitchen wood stove. Our central staircase delivers warm air to the upstairs main living area. We are set up to live off-grid if necessary, but decided to bring in the grid through woods.Our Aladdin lamps stand ready :-) We are Lakes Region. I understand you are further north. Looking forward to your videos.
Joe Jeness (sp?) at Joe & Zach Survival have a vid about his daughter baking bread in a wood-stove-top oven. Could be a good, inexpensive solution for baking/roasting.
I really admire this heating design. When we had our blueberry farm that was deeper in the Appalachian mountains we had a three level chalet style 3500 sq. ft. home. We had a woodstove in the middle level of the house and it surely kept the second and third floors very warm whenever we had to use it. However, it would have been great to have implemented this system in that style home because it would have heated the entire three levels of that house very well. I really like this style of woodstove too, because it has so many features that make it more pleasing to the eye and make it friendly to use in many other applications. Great Video! Thanks for sharing how you designed this. When we build our next house I will surely keep this design idea in mind! Journey On!
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Ideally you would have done i like i did in my old house. I bought a wood furnace that had a large built-in blower that would blow it's heat through a 10" pipe out the top. I then attached that heat pipe to my home's HVAC duct system. Worked great for the 2 or 3 tears i had it while my gas furnace was out of commission. I then got the gas furnace replaced, and i sold the wood furnace, before selling the house.
Yes! We were curious to find out more regarding your wood stove and how you heated your home with it... Thank you! Nicely done and well thought out. Thanks for sharing!!
I bet you could insulate those joists above your stove... at least to a certain radius-- like a 10' x 10' square or more... and it would keep your bedrooms from getting so hot, since they are right above the stove.
Al, Gina and Olivia, please take care in this upcoming blizzard. Hope New Yolk City, Coppa and Proscuitto fare well. We are hunkering down awaiting 8 inches here in SE Virginia, not something we are used to.
Excellent video! We have a tuxedo cat too! Anytime your chickens or pigs are on, she comes and sits in front of the tv to watch. Its very cute. The wood stove you have sure is a good looking one. I'm warming up to the idea (no pun intended!) of putting in a wood stove myself, even tho we are on-grid and have conventional everything. Thanks for taking the time to talk about this!
Wood heat. The natural and renewable resource. Nice heating system. We have a large masonry Rumford fireplace in our home which has a large enough opening to allow for a Jotul wood stove. We have a forced air central heating system, but there is nothing quite like the cozy feel of radiant heat coming from a cast iron wood stove on a cold winter day. Best wishes for a happy 2018.
good day to you Al !! thanks for sharing you great advice and information a how you Designed your House to be Heated with Wood & Natural Convection and showing how it's done
Thank you for making this video, great content, do you mind sharing the cost of this model. You have a great channel and I appreciate your time and your willingness to share information.
Your firebox intake is collecting indoor air and sending it outdoors. To replace the indoor air you are sucking cold outdoor air into your house through cracks and crevices. For efficiency you need an outdoor intake pipe to feed your firebox intake.
Wonderful video...thank you for this information...very thoughtful home design...as for your dutch oven, you can shovel coals out of the stove and use them outside for cooking with your dutch oven in a worst case scenario.
I am finally found my video this is I been looking for good information lot of details thank man I am try to save money by install wood stove when I build my house this old house right now have a fireplace but it only warm at fire place but not entire hosue
Good Morning, Al. Brrrr! From Long Island NY where it's pretty darn cold too, just not quite as cold as by your place. We are expecting some snow tonight so time to prep the coop for wind protection. Bring on the plastic sheets!
They make heat powered fans that can help circulate air. Also adding a kettle to the stove and always having boiling water going helps to replace the humidity the stove takes out of the air.
Hope you collect the combustion air directly into the fireplace through pipes so you do not let in cold air through door & windows and slots so you get cold draft after the floors
Get 2 convection stove top fans force air toward stair well and couch, put 2 high wall vents in bed rooms will keep bed room cooler, and kitchen and bathroom warmer, I use 12 volts fans powered by solar system each day, so free forced air flow, in your set up, I would drop a 14 pipe from main floor, drop down right over that stove, install my 12 v fan in the plenum pipe to force air stright up, I live in Northern NS Canada, I heat 1000 Sq feet, with 3 cords or less of birch and some cedar, even flow and is a solar powered force air system, nice place, bet you'd like mine too, my woodstove is smaller, only 60,000 btu, keeps house a constant 75, in the minus 20 nights I drop to 70 f, but more excuse to snuggle with mama, cheers
You have a very nice house. Thanks for the video one thing I'm missing in mine 8s the cold air returns I 8nstalled registers in the floor with fans in them to move the air upstairs but never thought about getting the cold back down. Thanks for the reminder I was considering to much on the hot and zero on the cold
I really like your set up. Well done. I have an outside wood boiler made by Portage and Main (Canada) That runs to the rough 5 cords of wood per winter but I do have a forced draft on my furnace so I can tie the two systems together as per insurance requirements. Your convection system is my goal as the air circulation portion requires a 5 amp draw. Adapting to the cold air drops will allow me to incorporate a less than 1 amp blower and cut energy use considerably. As far as the DUTCH OVEN I have a portable wood burning camp stove with a flat top that has an accessory convection style oven that is basically just an open bottom steel box with a door and removable rack and thermometer. You could make something large enough to use regular baking/roasting pans and still have room on your stove for the big pot you use in this video.
Try using bubble foil back insulation like they use in yurts under the bedroom floor it repels the heat away and it wouldn't cost much to try under you're bedroom.
About the bedroom heat... I wonder if you insulate underneath it and then put a sort of "ramp" attached to the ceiling using two sheets of plywood or so to guide the hot air away from that area...
Hi, Al. You may have mentioned this. I'm not sure. The reason that in the winter it's beneficial to have water heating is because it adds humidity. A heating/ A.C. repairman told me that humidity has 'latent heat'. This is why refrigeration removes humidity and converts to condensate. Humidity holds latent heat in winter to help heating process. 👍
I would try to use a larger pipe going vertical single walled. Flue pipe gets super hot and with a very large surface area they really really heat the room actually. Also if i were to use a model as such, I would buy ones with water intake and output which i would connect to radiators in other rooms.
I like the setup. I have an idea for the hot bedroom. Add some insulation in the joyces to slow the heat going in the bedroom. This will also help warm up the far end of the house. foam would be best as fiber bats will want to sag and let hot air above it.
As suggested, here is a link to a BTU chart: firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/resources/firewood-btu-drying-chart.15/ If you are new to wood burning this will help you get better prepared since there is no way to get much heat by cutting and then burning wood. It needs to be well seasoned. firewoodhoardersclub.com/documents/Primer%20on%20Wood%20Burning.pdf
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Love the great videos. Is that black mould on the basement concrete walls?
Nope Lol
I'm not a.homesteader but is my dream
Nice set-up...good job on thinking things thru.
Tyvm 👍
I learned something new today. Cold air drops were unheard of to me but now make a lot of sense.
My grandparents had a house heated by a coal stove that was built in the 1850s. I remember standing on those grates as a child to warm up - the direct heat coming through the grates was one of the best sensations on a cold morning.
I also use wood to heat my 2,800sqft home with a full basement and main floor 1400sqft per level. Our wood stove is actually a forced air indoor wood furnace by Sears and Roebuck. So it does use a bit of electricity to make the stove more efficient. Decent trade off I suppose.
Anyway, I live in the foothills of the ozarks in southern Missouri.
Old timers told me that 10 acres or more of forest on your land can supply enough dead fall to heat a farm house without ever cutting a live tree from the land.
Considered that heavily when purchasing our farm. We bought 33 acres, 12a in forest 1.5a in ponds and the remaining mostly resembles large oak/ hardwood savanna.
Soooooooo glad to be out of the Suburban neighborhood FINALLY!!lol. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge
If you plumbed a ball valve and entrance pipe into the opening for the air entrance of the fire box and drew in combustion air from the outside, you'll reduce convection of fresh air entering the building envelope. It can make a substantial difference.
Yes, and what also happens is that the heat builds up inside the house pushing the pressure against the windows preventing drafts of cold air that generally come from windows. I wish I had a diagram to explain for visual learning. With out air from the outside coming directly into the back of the stove directly to the inside of the stove, the stove draws its air from inside the house. This air that is drawn generally comes from Leaks in the envelope of the house. These leaks can be from poor window seals. This means the draft is caused by the sucking of air outside the windows to inside the house. BUT if you only draw air directly into the stove from the back, there is no cold air being sucked inside through the windows. What actually happens is that the heat from the stove pushes up against the windows and Prevents the draft of cold air being sucked into the house. Awesome science stuff! 🙏🇨🇦
I like the idea of the glass in the stove door so you can watch the fire. That makes a huge difference.
I love the forethought that you've put into your heating system. The solution is fairly simple, but it's the sort of simplicity that only comes from good research, problem solving and application to create an efficient and practical solution. I also liked how the explanation of your system was highlighted with the cuteness of Figaro and Olivia! :)
Out of interest, do you still plan to install the hot water loop in the wood stove for a cheaper and/or alternative hot water source at some stage? I forgot to ask that on here yesterday... :)
have you thought of limited solar for electric as a backup in case the grid goes down , the excess energy you could also sell back to the grid.
One can always surmise the amount of research that you put into each of your projects... Well thought out and designed system. Not needed here in Central Texas, but valuable information nonetheless!
Very nice explanation of your heating! That is a charming furnace.
hi good morning beautiful family thanks for sharing its good to sit having breakfast and watching your great videos, such a great start to a beautiful day good morning Gina and Olivia have a wonderful day today, till tomorrow same place same time God bless beautiful family bye Olivia 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕.
Hang some 5/8ths type-X drywall over the stove, under the over-warmed bed rooms this will displace some of that unwanted heat to the other joist bays and up the stairs.
Great setup and awesome video. Sins my house is from the 1800 I had no control of where the woodstoves sits so I got 2 of them to heat the house but that works great to. The only thing is that all the mess ends up in our living area. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
8.15 just like when you make a snow cave you have to make a cold air drop, brilliant.... should do this as a job heating advisor because you're advice is brilliant. ...
I'm a master mason and I have to say that I enjoyed your video very much. It was nice to see someone take the time to understand the art of a good fireplace. :)
Al congratulations on making the top 10 videos u deserve it
Insulate and drywall the ceiling above the wood stove. Safer and keeps the bedrooms cooler! Nice job
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I'm a city person but with this Corona busy I'm looking to buy in the country and hired you to put in my stove and set it up to stay warm through out the house,,,just in case .. Electricity go out and I'm definitely getting one of those are high .. . Efficient... generators as well.....love .. Your presentation thank you...stay warm
Terrific. Dad built a mountain house years ago and I've tried to figure a way to to heat it when I retire. He had electric baseboard. You've given me great advice on how to do it. The down draft set up explains how to get the cool air into the basement. Putting in grates will be easy. Thanks.
Cooler air sinks down to the lower spaces because of its density. Warmer air floats/ gets pushed up on colder air. The colder air does all the pushing. Tear a narrow stip of fine tissue or toilet-type paper, hold one end and walk up the stairs to see all this
When I lived off grid I cooked on a bonfire. The way I baked was with two stainless steel bowls and two bricks. I put the two bricks in the bottom of one bowl and used the other bowl as a lid. I used aluminum foil to keep the bowls "sealed." This was big enough for an 8x8 pan or a bread pan, which is what I was using it for the most. I'm sure you could design something similar and more functional to use on the top of your stove so that you don't have to bake inside the fire box. Plus, you could always bake in your outdoor kitchen in the cook stove ;)
Back when I lived in the Sierras we used a much smaller convection stove to heat 1200 sq ft and it would COOK YOU OUT! Very effective means of heating!
Thank you for explained how cold air drops and how to control that. I did not know this and very helpful.
A cat lying like that is proof that it is warm enough for mere humans.
Nice job of explaining the heating system in your beautiful home! You should have recommended your video on how you store your firewood for drying and easy access in winter, that video is an excellent one also. God Bless
Dennis St.Germaine I was wondering the very same thing.
Here is a thought. I have a passive solar house with a heat pump with back up resistance heating. and a wood stove. The woodstove is on the main floor of a 2 story house with a garage under. The master bedroom is over the stove and the flue is internal and runs up through a walk in closet, it is a zero clearance chimney and it is enclosed. Where you have the floor joists exposed under you bedrooms I have a v-groove pine board ceiling. With the heat on bust under the floor the bedrooms are a nice 16-17c, 60-62f with the bedroom doors closed. With the doors open I can get 22-23c in the bedrooms when it is 24c on the main floor. An unheated room in the basement, with 2" of foam outside and 4" spray on foam inside is 10c. I heat another storage room to 17c, it is under the kitchen so I think of it as a bonus warm floor. The rest of the floor on the main floor has 9" of spray in foam, long story, I did not pay extra for the excess, it is always a warm floor. Under is a largely unheated garage/shop/wood storage. PS: the entire envelope of the house has 5.5" of spray on foam unless noted. The entire basement exterior below grade has a layer of 2" foam board (Cladmate). The basement has 4" sprayed foam behind gyprock. Moral of story, put something on the joists under the bedrooms to prevent direct conduction of heat from below. That dead air space, although lousy insulation, will knock 10f degrees off the bedroom temps. Something with fewer holes than a T&g product might knock off even more heat penetration. My normal cold temps here are only in the 20-35f range but it is very windy.
We designed our house around the stove as well, but it is not as big of a house (about 1500 sq. ft. with no basement) and it is super insulated. We go through less than a cord of wood a year, so we have a much smaller stove. Our stove is at the base of the stairway and the pipe goes straight up through the house. It has a clean-out tee just above the stove itself.One thing we found is that with a well insulated house you need to be careful not to over feed the fire. A little goes a long way, and lower BTU woods like aspen actually work just fine.
Greetings from Wisconsin! First time watching your channel...I enjoyed watching 3 videos so far...Cannot wait to see how you started out homesteading...and more of your journey. Thanks for sharing!
Al, interesting video. Texas is cold today and we finally turned my heat last evening. Your stove sound very efficient. God bless America...
Smart move on saving power. Prices are high across Northern New England. Somewhere around 12 cents per Kilowatt hour .
I was getting ready to say that you should leave the air duct off the one vent so heat could go up through it, or use a screen door or something to let the heat escape the stairwell. (It looked like you had a full door because you couldn't see any light coming down the stairs.) Then I seen the gate you have at the top of the stairs, that was a great idea. I am new to your channel but I've been catching up lol. Seems like you really do things right the first time.
Thank you for the explaination of hot and cool vents. I've never seen this done and love the simplicity! You could always put a few fans in there if you wanted to. Very neat.
Few do it, but a wood stove can be used to power all the fans you might want or need to move air around the structure.
Thanks for the excellent explanation of your wood stove! Wish I would have had a stove like that when we lived in the north country! We live in the worm south now! Love watching your channel! God bless your family!
A lot of good planning went into heating your home. It reminds me of the 110 year-old home we lived in with a gas furnace and gravity heat. No fan necessary to move the heat through two floors. I loved how quiet it was.
Congrats for making the top 10 videos award for 2017 you should have been #1
Great manipulation of convection principles, I would insulate the floor directly above the stove and that will cool the bedroom floor and raise the temps of the other floors, thanks for sharing, brilliant work..
You know a lot of people are turned of to running the flue like you did ...but there is a lot to be said for ease of access and cleaning. When done right the way you have done it is something that anyone who would who is timid about climbing up on the roof and would push their luck by avoiding it should really consider . It is fast and easy to maintain with little to no mess in the house. I for one like it. I went with the tee inside of the house...but that is what the situation called for.
Nice to see someone who really put some thought into the house design to heat completely with a wood stove.
What an innovative house design for 3000 sq. ft. Really enjoyed your video & modern home steading concepts. I am an original Mother Earther, who lived off-grid back in the 70s. In 1980, I was 30, so please bear with me, if I appear to be somewhat out dated, compared to your home steading methods. Its all good stuff! We live a 1935 rural lifestyle in small town Americana. My husband is 4th generation NH farming. He is 72 and works every day on our 350 acre family farm, now owned by his brother.They are logging today. 35 Herefords currently in the barn, to answer your question of wintering your livestock. Many are calves/breeding stock. Our newly designed home, at the base of the farm, is 988 sq. ft. with walk-in basement that currently holds 5 cords of dry wood for two woodstoves, one air tight in cellar, one vintage kitchen wood stove. Our central staircase delivers warm air to the upstairs main living area. We are set up to live off-grid if necessary, but decided to bring in the grid through woods.Our Aladdin lamps stand ready :-) We are Lakes Region. I understand you are further north. Looking forward to your videos.
Thanks You arent that far from us at all. It sounds like you have a nice homestead!
Joe Jeness (sp?) at Joe & Zach Survival have a vid about his daughter baking bread in a wood-stove-top oven. Could be a good, inexpensive solution for baking/roasting.
I really admire this heating design. When we had our blueberry farm that was deeper in the Appalachian mountains we had a three level chalet style 3500 sq. ft. home. We had a woodstove in the middle level of the house and it surely kept the second and third floors very warm whenever we had to use it. However, it would have been great to have implemented this system in that style home because it would have heated the entire three levels of that house very well. I really like this style of woodstove too, because it has so many features that make it more pleasing to the eye and make it friendly to use in many other applications. Great Video! Thanks for sharing how you designed this. When we build our next house I will surely keep this design idea in mind! Journey On!
Excellent video, very well thought out. I to heat with wood in northern BC Canada. Thank you.
I admire your commitment,
persuacion and courage. Best luck.
I like your house.. all wood and not a board of sheetrock in sight.. It's great
Hi........ AL. Thank you for your explanation of wood stove I never seen like this before . This is my first time of wood stove I have seen from you AL, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👨👩👧👸👕👓🐩🐔🐓🐥🐕🐖🐈🌱🐐🏡🎥👍👍👍
you can put a cheap fan vent on the roof with a thermostat. you have to put the fan in a position of low draft. Fresh air all year.
Ideally you would have done i like i did in my old house. I bought a wood furnace that had a large built-in blower that would blow it's heat through a 10" pipe out the top.
I then attached that heat pipe to my home's HVAC duct system. Worked great for the 2 or 3 tears i had it while my gas furnace was out of commission.
I then got the gas furnace replaced, and i sold the wood furnace, before selling the house.
Yes! We were curious to find out more regarding your wood stove and how you heated your home with it... Thank you! Nicely done and well thought out. Thanks for sharing!!
I bet you could insulate those joists above your stove... at least to a certain radius-- like a 10' x 10' square or more... and it would keep your bedrooms from getting so hot, since they are right above the stove.
The heating system is well thought out. I also like how you can clean the stove pipe from the outside. Great idea.
Alot of solid info here. Well done sir
Al, Gina and Olivia, please take care in this upcoming blizzard. Hope New Yolk City, Coppa and Proscuitto fare well. We are hunkering down awaiting 8 inches here in SE Virginia, not something we are used to.
stay safe and warm. It sounds like you are getting more snow than us
Excellent video! We have a tuxedo cat too! Anytime your chickens or pigs are on, she comes and sits in front of the tv to watch. Its very cute. The wood stove you have sure is a good looking one. I'm warming up to the idea (no pun intended!) of putting in a wood stove myself, even tho we are on-grid and have conventional everything. Thanks for taking the time to talk about this!
thank you for sharing...really like the swinging half doors...
Wood heat. The natural and renewable resource. Nice heating system. We have a large masonry Rumford fireplace in our home which has a large enough opening to allow for a Jotul wood stove. We have a forced air central heating system, but there is nothing quite like the cozy feel of radiant heat coming from a cast iron wood stove on a cold winter day. Best wishes for a happy 2018.
All that heat going up the flue
I put mine on the inside with a metal line mason chimney.and more horizontal pipe..
Thank you for the very informative description of your heating system.
good day to you Al !! thanks for sharing you great advice and information a how you Designed your House to be Heated with Wood & Natural Convection and showing how it's done
I love watching this channel, you think things through so well
You have a great system and thanks for the recipe. Have a blessed day.
Thank you for making this video, great content, do you mind sharing the cost of this model. You have a great channel and I appreciate your time and your willingness to share information.
I believe it cost around $3500 shipped to the house.
Your firebox intake is collecting indoor air and sending it outdoors. To replace the indoor air you are sucking cold outdoor air into your house through cracks and crevices. For efficiency you need an outdoor intake pipe to feed your firebox intake.
I would still put low velocity fans in each corner of the basement. But I would have to keep close attention on cold nights
Such clear explanations of how this all works.
Wonderful video...thank you for this information...very thoughtful home design...as for your dutch oven, you can shovel coals out of the stove and use them outside for cooking with your dutch oven in a worst case scenario.
You can definitely flash a metal roof properly.
Thanks Al ! A very well thought out system with a great explanation of how it works.
Great info! Really like the idea of the cold air dumps/returns. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for reusing ashes.
ah ha...yes yes yes i knew it....convection in a simple format....great for my old homestead in Bulgaria....holes in the floor simples.
I am finally found my video this is I been looking for good information lot of details thank man I am try to save money by install wood stove when I build my house this old house right now have a fireplace but it only warm at fire place but not entire hosue
That stove is very nice, I bet it cost a bundle! Loved the cat (I have 3), and the kid is cute, she looks warm and comfortable. Very beautiful home!
Excellent info. Your presentation skills are ace.
Thanks very interesting fella
This is brilliant. I've seen parts of this but not all of it or together before. Love it!
Good Morning, Al. Brrrr! From Long Island NY where it's pretty darn cold too, just not quite as cold as by your place. We are expecting some snow tonight so time to prep the coop for wind protection. Bring on the plastic sheets!
Great setup.
They make heat powered fans that can help circulate air.
Also adding a kettle to the stove and always having boiling water going helps to replace the humidity the stove takes out of the air.
awesome i'm glad i found this episode! been curious about the stove itself and how
it heats everything. it's a very handsome wood stove as well.
Wood heat is so comforting and it seems to warm the soul too.
Thnaks Al. Very well done.
Hope you collect the combustion air directly into the fireplace through pipes so you do not let in cold air through door & windows and slots so you get cold draft after the floors
that is some heating set up you have you really did your homework guy !! looks like a great place !
My favorite channel to start the day!
Get 2 convection stove top fans force air toward stair well and couch, put 2 high wall vents in bed rooms will keep bed room cooler, and kitchen and bathroom warmer, I use 12 volts fans powered by solar system each day, so free forced air flow, in your set up, I would drop a 14 pipe from main floor, drop down right over that stove, install my 12 v fan in the plenum pipe to force air stright up, I live in Northern NS Canada, I heat 1000 Sq feet, with 3 cords or less of birch and some cedar, even flow and is a solar powered force air system, nice place, bet you'd like mine too, my woodstove is smaller, only 60,000 btu, keeps house a constant 75, in the minus 20 nights I drop to 70 f, but more excuse to snuggle with mama, cheers
You have a very nice house. Thanks for the video one thing I'm missing in mine 8s the cold air returns I 8nstalled registers in the floor with fans in them to move the air upstairs but never thought about getting the cold back down. Thanks for the reminder I was considering to much on the hot and zero on the cold
Nice set up Al.
Congrats on top 10 homestead video. I enjoy your channel.
I really like your set up. Well done. I have an outside wood boiler made by Portage and Main (Canada) That runs to the rough 5 cords of wood per winter but I do have a forced draft on my furnace so I can tie the two systems together as per insurance requirements. Your convection system is my goal as the air circulation portion requires a 5 amp draw. Adapting to the cold air drops will allow me to incorporate a less than 1 amp blower and cut energy use considerably. As far as the DUTCH OVEN I have a portable wood burning camp stove with a flat top that has an accessory convection style oven that is basically just an open bottom steel box with a door and removable rack and thermometer. You could make something large enough to use regular baking/roasting pans and still have room on your stove for the big pot you use in this video.
Re the bedrooms being too warm,,, insulate the floor of the bedrooms with fibreglass batts, from below, this will keep the
Bedrooms cooler,
Excellent information.......thank you for this video, We found it really helpful
Try using bubble foil back insulation like they use in yurts under the bedroom floor it repels the heat away and it wouldn't cost much to try under you're bedroom.
About the bedroom heat... I wonder if you insulate underneath it and then put a sort of "ramp" attached to the ceiling using two sheets of plywood or so to guide the hot air away from that area...
So much more than I knew!
Brilliant and awesome! Your family is greatly blessed. Happy New Year! Blessings to all!
Hi, Al. You may have mentioned this. I'm not sure. The reason that in the winter it's beneficial to have water heating is because it adds humidity. A heating/ A.C. repairman told me that humidity has 'latent heat'. This is why refrigeration removes humidity and converts to condensate. Humidity holds latent heat in winter to help heating process. 👍
I would try to use a larger pipe going vertical single walled. Flue pipe gets super hot and with a very large surface area they really really heat the room actually.
Also if i were to use a model as such, I would buy ones with water intake and output which i would connect to radiators in other rooms.
I like the setup. I have an idea for the hot bedroom. Add some insulation in the joyces to slow the heat going in the bedroom. This will also help warm up the far end of the house. foam would be best as fiber bats will want to sag and let hot air above it.
Very good I like that, thanks for sharing your info 👍🇺🇸
As suggested, here is a link to a BTU chart: firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/resources/firewood-btu-drying-chart.15/
If you are new to wood burning this will help you get better prepared since there is no way to get much heat by cutting and then burning wood. It needs to be well seasoned.
firewoodhoardersclub.com/documents/Primer%20on%20Wood%20Burning.pdf
Thanks for posting!
That is an awesome design . Thank you for telling us what you wouñd hav done different. We all learn from our and others mistakes