Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
Outdoor Furnaces - Manufacturers with NON EPA-Certified Models Only => RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only => Topic started by: U.P. Doug on November 02, 2014, 05:24:37 AM
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Well,
I finally have my Ridgewood fired up for the first time on Tuesday. No issues so far, everything is working good. I am busy now insulating lines at the back of the boiler, and in my garage as well as the copper in the basement. Do not know how I pulled it off, but my wife is stacking the wood in my expanded wood shed. I had a large barn fall down last winter and I am burning the wood and beams that I did not recycle. It has been a long but fun summer, ended up with a 12' by 36" lean 2 wood shed off my garage, sided to match with doors on both ends. Concrete pad for my boiler with 4' extra in front, Logstor pipe buried and grass growing. I ended up going with the Grundfos pumps that Slim suggested 26-99 I believe. One is in my basement and heats my domestic as well as my water to air. I also added a loop with two 1" tee's off of my main line close together with a smaller pump feeding a water to air exchanger in my breezeway, with a line voltage thermostat controlling the pump. My garage has a 26-99 feeding it with a recycled large Hydraulic cooler with two fans on it. I have a line voltage thermostat controlling an outlet. This way I can plug one fan motor in or both if needed. This pump is inside the garage as well, as it is below my boiler water level. I have shut off valves on all exchangers, and boiler valves in place to flush each one out when needed. Just wanted to say Thank You for all the help and advice I received here from your answers or just reading previous posts. Special thanks to Slim!!
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Sounds like your set for this heating season......and the long haul! Congrats!
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Sounds like a well thought out install. Good job.
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Thanks golffanman. Did a lot of reading here and asked some questions. Great site!
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Looks like cold weather next week in the 20's and night here in the mi thumb area.
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Congratulations! 8)
What is the size of the pipe for the main loop? 1-inch? 1 1/4"? Curious
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Another Ridgewood owner congratulations . What part of the upper are you from?
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Fired mine up yesterday.......nice to have a warm house and hot water.
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automan77, I am in Fibre which is about 8 miles out of Rudyard in the Hiawatha forest. From the Lapeer area moved up here 5 years ago for work. Love being in the middle of nowhere!
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Sloppy_Snood I went with the logstor pipe, and my main loop is 1" copper. Boiler sets behind the garage with about 65' run to my house, and 26' to my garage. Main loop is not very long, my house is not very large, about 1600 sq ft, buts its nice and warm now!
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Thank you U.P. Doug, welcome to the wonderful world of burning wood, sounds like a great setup! Glad we could help.