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[william]

Hello!,

My name is William Loftin, I am about to build my first home. I have worked as a carpenter for about 10 years and I have the basic construction part down pretty well. The land I bought is out in the country in east Texas with a lot of wood on the land. I have been looking at building my own forced air outdoor wood heater. I have seen a few pics online for relatively small setups but nothing that would work for an aprox 1200 sq ft home. I see a lot of posts on here for water based boiler systems, but to be quite honest I don’t think I have the plumbing skills to pull off a water based system and also the cost of the radiators in the house seems to be quite a lot. I can weld pretty well and am fairly good with wiring and ductwork, so I think if I had some good plans I would be able to make a functional forced air system.

Problem is I have found a lot of free plans for water systems but only factory built furnaces for forced air. Since finding this forum I was hoping some of you may have looked into a forced air system or could point me in the right direction. Really appreciate any help yall can provide. I am doing a pier and beam single story so ductwork will be under the house.

Thanks
William Loftin

[CountryBoyJohn]

I think I have seen 1 guy on here that has a forced air stove.  You may do a search to see if you can find the thread he chimed in on.  I think he posted some pictures.  I think it was a home made unit.  Good luck!

[hondaracer2oo4]

Welcome to the board! If you are really set on the FHA system in the house then your best option is to have a water to air heat exchanger in the FHA system in the house. That brings the water from an outdoor boiler and exchanges it with air in the ductwork. Shaver makes a forced hot air model and a few people on this site have one(check under the shaver manufacturer in this forum) The forced hot air models though don't seem as though they would be very efficient and aren't really any easier to make then a water boiler. I have FHA in my old house and it is an ok way to heat but I grew up with forced hot water and boy is that a whole lot nicer! I would seriously consider the forced hot water option instead of the FHA system in the house.

[baldwin racing]

Hello!,

My name is William Loftin, I am about to build my first home. I have worked as a carpenter for about 10 years and I have the basic construction part down pretty well. The land I bought is out in the country in east Texas with a lot of wood on the land. I have been looking at building my own forced air outdoor wood heater. I have seen a few pics online for relatively small setups but nothing that would work for an aprox 1200 sq ft home. I see a lot of posts on here for water based boiler systems, but to be quite honest I don’t think I have the plumbing skills to pull off a water based system and also the cost of the radiators in the house seems to be quite a lot. I can weld pretty well and am fairly good with wiring and ductwork, so I think if I had some good plans I would be able to make a functional forced air system.

Problem is I have found a lot of free plans for water systems but only factory built furnaces for forced air. Since finding this forum I was hoping some of you may have looked into a forced air system or could point me in the right direction. Really appreciate any help yall can provide. I am doing a pier and beam single story so ductwork will be under the house.

Thanks
William Loftin

welcome William,
if you wanted to go with an indoor forced hot air stove. thermo-control makes one that you could even install domestic hot water lines in it to heat your hot water as well. they have a 20 year nonprorated warranty as well. here is the web site www.nationalstoveworks.com  if you want the owners cell number I have it and you can call him direct.....if you want the number send a pm.

kelly

[MattyNH]

Welcome William.. Lots of great info and people on this..Yeah I think countryboyjohn is right on that what he posted....Heres a web sight on air stoves.. www.airstove.com. It shows a bunch of pics of installments etc...

[william]

thanks for all the replies! Having a busy time at the moment so haven't had a chance to look up everything yet.

again thanks for the help it is greatly appreciated!

William Loftin