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[slimjim]

My immediate concern would be the carpet in the great room, it will act as insulation against the radiant floor, not saying that it won't heat but its effectiveness will be diminished, will you be adding anything for heat there, My suggestion might be a NICE cast iron rad for that area. The next thing that I might suggest would be to add some heated towel racks for the bathrooms, they can be controlled either by temp or my choice would be a timer, imagine getting out of the shower to a hot towel and warm bathroom! You might want to change your mind on the main loops overhead in the basement and go with pex al pex or Fosta Pex as the copper may cook the floors!

[slimjim]

Slopster, could you PM me your phone number again, I had lots of calls after you today and now can't find yours, I'll have crappy service tomorrow, I'll call when I can.

[Pinehouse4]

Hi Sloppy,

You may already have installed the Logstor at the rear by now however if you have not you may be interested how I did it.

The lower section of the cabinet can be removed and then take out the appropriate knock outs. They are harder to get out than I expected, very tough metal. Slide the hole over the Logstor and re attach the cabinet to the stove by digging back the Logstor.

Maybe everyone does it this way I don't know. I came up a few inches then stripped to the pex.

I see you have a wire or two going in that way, if not using conduit or B/X you can lay the wire against the Logstor entering the cabinet then take a piece of the Logstor black skin ( you will have some cut off from your piece, ) and snap it around the main logstor for wire protection from below the ground into the stove. There is room.

Bob

[Sloppy_Snood]

Slopster, could you PM me your phone number again, I had lots of calls after you today and now can't find yours, I'll have crappy service tomorrow, I'll call when I can.

PM sent Slim.


Also, thank you for the suggestions Pinehouse.  The Logstor was installed just as you described.  I am bringing 1-inch schedule 40 underground conduit up into the bottom where the punch outs are but I am just going to drill a hole with a 1 1/8" hole saw bit (mainly because of where my electrical conduit and the wires come up out of the ground; it is a little bit to the side of the unused punchout metal holes). 

For the Logstor knockout hole, I ran a Dremel tool to remove all of the sharp point metal burrs; did not want any cuts on the Logstor pipe casing. 

[Uponthehill]

To keep from possibly cutting the Logstor, I took a piece of 1/4" gas line, slit the length with a utility blade and slid over the sharp edge.   Works / looks good....

[mlappin]

 

To keep from possibly cutting the Logstor, I took a piece of 1/4" gas line, slit the length with a utility blade and slid over the sharp edge.   Works / looks good....

 

I've made many a grommet using gas line or something similar then using weatherstrip adhesive to glue it in place.

[Sloppy_Snood]

To keep from possibly cutting the Logstor, I took a piece of 1/4" gas line, slit the length with a utility blade and slid over the sharp edge.   Works / looks good....

Great idea!  I'm going to use this.  Thank you. 

[GUSWHIT]

So have you gotten this up and running?  How is your system heating the home?  How much wood have you went through?  Can we see a picture of your piping/flow assembly?  Do you have an auxiliary water tank system for thermal storage?  I am in the process of designing a system myself and I get a lot of conflicting information on designs and my dealer is NO help.

[mittenengineer]

need an update, how did it do last winter? ready for this season? changes?  How did the inside installation go?