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[abc]

can an outdoor woodburner (Hawken) heat your water for your house all year long?  If so how would you do that? Thank you

[NewToIt]

Yes.  Here is an over simplified explanation..... You run a loop of hot water from your boiler into the house, thru one side of a water to water heat exchanger, then back to the boiler.  On the other side of the exchanger, you run a loop of your domestic (potable) water.

Now, where you tap into your domestic water is up for debate..... many opinions on that.

If you already have a loop of hot water going to and from house to heat your house, then you simply run it through the water to water exchanger first, then to house heat exchanger, then back to boiler.  No need to run a separate loop.

With all that said, I don't burn mine all summer just for domestic water, but some do.


If you have more specific questions.... fire away. A lot of good people here that know there stuff and are willing to help.

Oh, and welcome to the board.

[RSI]

Are you already heating it in the winter? If you just need a bypass so it doesn't heat your house too.

[Bull]

Welcome to the site ABC

[MattyNH]

Welcome to the site ABC..Absolutely your owb can heat your hot water during the summer months..Im assuming your not heating your hot water with your owb..Just need a heat exchanger for your holding tank if you have one....

[gspren]

  In my case I was already getting my DHW from my oil boiler so when I hooked up a heat exchanger to heat the boiler water with my OWB I get both heat and hot water from one exchanger so all I need to do is burn in the summer to get DHW but I don't, just don't use that much oil.
Gary