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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: suggestions on running lines in shop

« on: May 06, 2015, 03:12:36 PM »

slimjim,  I sent you a pm.  please let me know you received it.  Thank you.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: suggestions on running lines in shop

« on: May 05, 2015, 02:25:15 PM »

LittleJohn,  What are bend supports?  If I have no choice but to run elbows what should I do to run them?

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: suggestions on running lines in shop

« on: May 05, 2015, 10:29:06 AM »

Thank you guy's for the info.  slimjim,  When you refer to a insulated chase are you talking about building a insulated "cavity" to run the lines in along the wall?  If so that's what I had in mind.  I will have to run 4 sets of elbows(4 in the supply and same in the return).  Is that going to be ok?  What I have now on my hanging heat exchanger is a thermostat on the wall and a rheostat(?) switch to turn the fan motor up or down.  Could you send me more info on the set up your talking about.  Thanks a bunch.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / suggestions on running lines in shop

« on: May 04, 2015, 09:46:22 PM »

Hello,  I have a workshop that has concrete block walls and need some advice on running my water lines.  Right now I am in the process of insulating the block walls and I have a hanging heat unit mounted in the middle of the shop.  My water lines(1" plastic pex tubing) come in on the bottom of one wall.  and run to the hanging unit.  My question is how does everybody else have there similar system set up or how would you run this set up.  Thanks in advance. 

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Plumbing / Re: Question about my shop set up and elbows?

« on: May 01, 2015, 01:39:02 AM »

This is plastic pex pipe and metal elbows.  I thought I could build some kind of insulated soffit cavity along the wall and run my lines inside that.  Thanks.

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Plumbing / Question about my shop set up and elbows?

« on: April 30, 2015, 10:10:37 PM »

Hey all,  I have a question about my shop set up and the amount of elbows I want to use.  I have a hanging heating unit in my shop and my stove is about 20-25 ft. from my shop and about 80 ft. from my house.  My water lines come into my shop(just above the floor) and run about 40 ft. to my heating unit(along the walls).  I would like to run them along the wall a little more "neater" for lack of better words.  This would require me to install 4 elbows in the lines to tuck them in tight to the walls.  Is this going to be ok?  If not what is the better way or what do I have to do to use these elbows?  thanks all. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: woodmaster

« on: February 17, 2014, 04:41:46 PM »

Ive had a woodmaster 4400 for about 7 years now and the only problem ive had is I had to replace the blower motor a couple of times. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: water fill question

« on: February 10, 2014, 05:58:24 AM »

I have basically the same set up as ecc_33.  I had to add water once in about 7 years.  It does make it easy to refill when draining and refilling the system. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / how much wood how often on these cold days and nights?

« on: January 28, 2014, 04:59:05 PM »

Just curious how often are you guys filling your owb during these extremely cold days and nights?  Also how much average size wood do you load at one time? 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: -15 last night in ne ohio coldest night so far (I think I may be an idiot)

« on: January 28, 2014, 04:55:27 PM »

Wait a minute,  I thought that leaving the blower switch off by accident was like a right of passage? LOL.  I do not think anybody that has a blower switch has not made that mistake and if someone says they have not I would almost call them a liar.    -15 with wind chill here in northern Michigan last night and my woodmaster 4400 kept the house at 70 degrees.  I have the stove about 100 feet from house and another run going into my barn that I am just finishing insulating.  Also heating my domestic hot water.  I guess that's not too bad. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Greetings from new forum member

« on: January 14, 2014, 01:08:47 PM »

Welcome to the forum.  I too am a newbie to the forum and have found there's a lot of knowledgeable people here.  I have owned my boiler for about 7 yrs.  and when we bought our home 20 yrs. ago it was not worth the work to burn wood even though I live on ten acres of hardwood.  Every year the price of propane went up until finally enough was enough...Bring on the wood baby!  One thing I did on my ten acres when I installed my boiler was had a REPUTABLE logger come in and select cut my woods and I took the money from the logs and put on the price of my boiler and that left me over 50 tops to cut and burn.  Love having my land work for me a little.  Good luck on your build and boiler install.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: flushing system

« on: January 14, 2014, 10:52:40 AM »

I have went every other year a couple times but I figure my woodmaster unit only takes a half a gallon of boiler treatment so I do it every year most of the time.  I take one day and scrape the inside of my firebox and try to remove any creosol and build up I can and also flush and refill the water tank at the same time.  I believe I was also told the boiler treatment acts as a lubricant for the pumps and heat exchangers also(coats everything).  The other reason I do it yearly is so I can back flush all my lines and get rid of any sediment.  I have shut off valves on both my supply and return lines so I can back flush both sets of lines and component's.   

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: Sub $5000 OWBs

« on: January 13, 2014, 09:53:55 PM »

I guess when I installed my OWB the cost was not a issue at all because I had money going out to pay for propane so I just took the money out of the gas mans hand and made a payment on my boiler instead.  The only difference I seen was that eventually the boiler got paid for and the gas man never did. 

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: why doesnt the administrators block shannonpi??

« on: January 13, 2014, 05:06:43 PM »

so why cant he be blocked??

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / why doesnt the administrators block shannonpi??

« on: January 13, 2014, 04:52:39 PM »

Why do I keep seeing these foreign posts?  isn't this spam?  Also it makes no sense at all to take up space and crowd the forum. Thanks.