Rocket Stove with long heat tube

[mnowaczyk]

1) I’ve got a boiler in my basement I plan to replace with a PVC venting modcon (purchased) which will free up a chimney that’s currently connected in my basement.

2) I have a chimney in my garage with a recently installed liner that I am planning to connect a wood stove to.

3) I am currently trying to design an outdoor space next to the garage that might be nice to have wood burning.

4) YouTube just fed me this video, and the wheels started turning about horizontal runs of chimney flue, giving me the idea that perhaps the burn chamber could be far from the chimney. I don’t know, but the wheels are turning.

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I am wondering if I could make a perimeter bench in my basement with a chimney tube in it that is heated by the chimney.

I am wondering if I could perhaps have not only the wood stove in the garage, but perhaps a T that might enable an outdoor rocket stove burn device connected to the same chimney as the wood stove with a “valve” that connects one or the other.

I know you need vertical for deft and the chimney typically needs to be warm for draft. I realize that too much cold can create condensation that would need to somehow be removed too.

Wheels turning.

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

Dibs on being the first person to tell you garage stoves are against code. But then again I would do one myself if I didnt have the in floor heat. Lots of ideas here but unless you like the complexity for the sake of fun you may be able to simplify this whole setup.

 

[mnowaczyk]

Dibs on being the first person to tell you garage stoves are against code. But then again I would do one myself if I didnt have the in floor heat. Lots of ideas here but unless you like the complexity for the sake of fun you may be able to simplify this whole setup.

I should have wrote it and called dibs myself. You win.

I would think there’d be issues with condensation. Clearly cleanouts would be needed all over the place, plus a way to collect condensation (that just drips down a vertical chimney).

And then I wonder if there’d simply be issues with the draft if the ratio between the horizontal and the vertical got too large. I wonder if there’s a simple “rocket stove rule of thumb” for horizontal length that the guy in the video didn’t follow. I actually need to watch the video completely though. I wonder if he has a bypass for getting the fire started.

 

[mnowaczyk]

I would think that the chimney on this thing is WAY too short, not only for practical reasons, but also because it terminates at the same height as a window. I would love to put a chimney on my porch but don't even consider it because of the height that I assume would be required.