Ive got an old 1920's house that has hot water radiator heating but 2 chimneys. One chimney is for the oil boiler and the other is for the wood stove. I was wondering if any one has an idea or advice on how i could hook up a heat reclaimer on my flue from the fireplace and hook it into some sort of duct work to feed it through the house. Anything?
Need advice on Heat Reclaimer
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evanichko said:
You not going to get many favorable advice on this. One member may, but the rest will advise that cooling of the flue gasses due to heat reclamation causes the formation of creosote. Which can lead to chimney fires.
Tried one on my old Fisher stove in the basement, really hurt the already marginal draft, took it right off.
Even if you installed one I don't think you would get enough heat to heat a house through a duct.
Even if you installed one I don't think you would get enough heat to heat a house through a duct.
Heat reclaimer did nothing except make more noise. It's laying outside next to my trash cans!! Pay for shipping i'll sendit to ya.Wish I had that hundy in my pocket!!
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