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This is what we use to heat our house with.

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Frank S:
 this was my heat exchanger unit

 I has a plate inside of it that fit the pipes a rod welded in its center so I could pull it back and forth to scrape the creosote worked fine the first few times but then got to the point that it took  some time to get it to move back and forth I suspect it warped and bound on the tubes.

John Bouchard:
All good information on wood stove efficiency.  In Washington State requires all wood stoves sold to be high efficiency and they burn very hot and most all have  tubular enclosures that capture gasses with ceramic backing running atop in the fire box.  These systems will burn off much of the combustion gasses like a afterburner which reduces carbon particles like creosote.   The result is more btu from wood and smaller fire box.  I like the idea of stacking tiles to increase thermal mass as I also burn wood for heat.  BTW beautiful stove you got!

Cheers
John

Ungrounded Lightning Rod:
I count 14 piles of 22 tiles each.

Great idea.  I'd been thinking about retrofitting thermal mass.

If I had the house building to do over I'd put several layers of drywall, rather than just one, on the greatroom walls, inside the Rmany wall insulation.

Fireproof gunsafes (much brick in their walls) help stabilize the office temp.

Frank S:
 Actually there are 13 stacks of 22. This year I added 4 dead quiet muffin fans  at the entrance of the hall for circulation. leaving these plus the little 8" fan behind the stove and the ceiling fans in the living room kitchen and our bed room going 24/7 does a pretty good job of balancing the temperatures. The living room still gets a little toasty for me but the wife enjoys it being  warm around 80° at the couch where she sits  She is under weight and her 73 year old bones don't take to cold very well. the thermostat for the heat pump is located in the hall about 50 feet from the  wood stove it is set at 65° but even in the couple of days where the lows reached the teens so far and the high only got up to 25 it has not cycled on yet but our colder part of winter doesn't come until mid January
 These fans run on 12v so I have them on a  5 amp wall wart I could mount up to 8 more fans on the same transformer with no problems 

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