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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: pointer80 on December 20, 2013, 11:55:41 AM

Title: going the distance??
Post by: pointer80 on December 20, 2013, 11:55:41 AM
Hi all,  I was just curious,  What is the distance between your OWB.  and your building or dwelling you are heating?  I have a Woodmaster 4400 heavy duty and it is about 90-100 feet from my house and about 20 feet from my barn.  Thanks all.
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Post by: CountryBoyJohn on December 20, 2013, 12:58:29 PM
I'm about 6' away from my garage.  :thumbup:

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Post by: Roger2561 on December 20, 2013, 01:05:50 PM
My OWB is about 30 feet from the house but the piping runs about 80' underground due to where it enters the foundations into the basement.  Roger
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Post by: Brad on December 20, 2013, 01:52:15 PM
My OWB is about 25-30 feet from my house.  Glad it's not any further cause digging 30ft of trench was killer...
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Post by: ITO on December 20, 2013, 02:19:03 PM
Pointer I have just about the same as you, about 90' because I remember pulling in 2 pieces of 1" pex that were 100 foot pieces I cut a little off and there's a little down in back of the boiler and a bit up into my utility room.
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Post by: plumb bob on December 20, 2013, 03:13:38 PM
10' to garage, underground, then 30' along back wall of heated garage into mechanical room. the 40' into mech room is central boiler wrapped insulated pipe.
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Post by: automan77 on December 20, 2013, 03:49:47 PM
mine is 106 from boiler to the house then 45 across the basement to my furnace.
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Post by: merrellroofing on December 20, 2013, 03:56:11 PM
165 ft. of thermopex. $ouch$.  It was the best spot for it to go.
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Post by: willowbk on December 20, 2013, 03:58:25 PM
well looks like i got the record so far, i had to go 225 ft from the house due to the communist state of ct's regs.
otherwise i wouldnt have been able to install one, it defnitely drove up my costs quite abit. i went with the good insulated pipe and dug the trench myself w/ machine to save money. i was told you only loose less than 1/2 degree every 100 ft. 
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Post by: willieG on December 20, 2013, 04:16:20 PM
250 feet
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Post by: fireboss on December 20, 2013, 05:04:37 PM
I am 14' away from my house
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Post by: BoilerHouse on December 20, 2013, 05:05:44 PM
165 feet from the house, 90 feet from the garage.
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Post by: baldwin racing on December 20, 2013, 05:09:05 PM
Hi all,  I was just curious,  What is the distance between your OWB.  and your building or dwelling you are heating?  I have a Woodmaster 4400 heavy duty and it is about 90-100 feet from my house and about 20 feet from my barn.  Thanks all.

my boiler is 125 feet from house and as of right now 16 feet from shop in the little insulated building until I add on my shop..... :thumbup:

kelly
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Post by: beeman on December 20, 2013, 06:30:22 PM
about ten feet for me it was suposed to be one year just to test for the first winter on winter 3 now getting to like not walking far manly in the morning have bad habet of not wearing shoes
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Post by: MattyNH on December 20, 2013, 06:52:50 PM
 I'm 98 feet from my house then another 28 feet in my basement to my oil boiler..
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Post by: woodwalker2010 on December 20, 2013, 07:05:43 PM
35' to house, thru plate exchanger then air exchanger. Then 35' more feet thru basement back outside for another 25' to my shop and then back to boiler. Going thru my basement and using same line to heat my shop saved me digging another 100' ditch plus pipe.
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Post by: Speed on December 25, 2013, 03:28:07 PM
45' to the house, 20' inside. 20' to shop, 8' inside.
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Post by: AirForcePOL on December 29, 2013, 09:35:57 PM
I'm about 130 from the boiler to my hx in the house furnace.   85 feet of that is burried outside.   My shop isn't hooked up yet but I have installed the lines and it's about 45 ft from the boiler to the shop.   
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Post by: LittleJohn on December 30, 2013, 02:36:43 PM
Garage is 50' & House is 85' from OWB; all S&R pipes are buried below frost line (pretty deep here in East Central MN)  -11F this morning, with wind chills bottuming out about -35
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Post by: LittleJohn on December 31, 2013, 09:00:17 AM
Picture from this summer;

Garage in back ground is about 50' run mechanical room to OWB (Garage is jokingly called the "Tah Mahal"  because its 48' x 80' with 10' x 16' office = 4000sf & 1000sf unheated bonus room upstairs, with Genie-Lift elevator to 2nd story)
OWB in located next to small out building on middle left of image
House (further along now - about 3500sf total living space and garage) is about 100' mechanical room to OWB

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Post by: robash9608 on December 31, 2013, 01:10:59 PM
Mine is about 60 feet from house and around 24"-30" deep.
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Post by: ecc_33 on December 31, 2013, 03:04:03 PM
250'  from my house. My barn will be about 10 feet when I build it.
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Post by: MD20/20 on January 03, 2014, 06:18:56 PM
300 feet from inside exchanger.
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Post by: jcc273 on January 06, 2014, 10:42:04 AM
10' from the back of my house and the lean-to of wood is right next to it.  Love being able to just walk out the back door in my skivvies and toss some logs in : )