My completed house will be rather unusual. The existing house is a 16x30 foot log cabin, with a second floor. The addition will be a separate log cabin, 20x24 feet, with a very high cathedral ceiling. The two log cabins will be connected, just like the pioneers did, with a framed "dogtrot" that is 12 feet long.
The Jotul will be in the far corner of the addition.
So, the problem is to get the heat out of the addition and into the main house.
I want to keep it simple. For starters, the addition will be 16 inches lower than the main house. There will be a real big door from the addition cabin into the hallway of the dogtrot, this door will be 40 inches wide and 7 foot 2 inches high.
The door at the other end of the 12 foot hallway, that goes into the main house, will be just as big.
Of course, the Oslo is much too large for a 20 x 24 foot cabin. The tremendous heat will flow up into the cathedral ceiling, will spool down to the doorway, flood out into the ceiling of the dogtrot, and the flow through the second large door, and into the main cabin.
I like to keep it simple. Hopefully, by convection, the heat will move.
If not enough heat flows into the main house, I will put a couple of floor fans, in that hallway of the dogtrot, blowing in towards the addition where the Jotul is.
Blow cool air in, you blow hot air out.
If that doesn't work, it will be simple enough to install a duct in the basement, from floor of the living room of the existing cabin, and into the floor of the addition.
A giant duct 16 inches in diameter. Put a 14 inch floor fan down there, in the middle of the duct, blowing cool air from the existing house, into the addition where the wood stove is. That fan will be wired to a switch on the wall in the hallway of the dog trot. Crank up the wood stove, flip on the fan switch.
One way, or another, that Jotul will heat the entire house.
And, since these modern wood stoves demand such dry wood, I am going to build a woodshed. It will be 8x12 feet, 8 feet high with metal roof. I will put a solar powered fan in the gable end of the wood shed. It will blow in.
At the bottom of the wood shed, there will be two openings for air to blow out.
So, on the hot sunny days, the fan will blow outside air in, force the hot air in at the top of the woodshed, where it will flow past all the split, stacked wood, and it will exhaust at the bottom.
On cloudy rainy days, the fan won't run. That's good because you don't want cool moist air blowing past your firewood.
I believe that I will be able to dry out firewood quickly with my new woodshed, gonna buy a moisture meter at Lowes and will post results.
