I am the project manager for a remote ski cabin being built by a 501 c3 tax exempt organization, the Grand Huts Association (grandhuts.org). The 1800 square foot foam (SIP) insulated cabin will be located a mile by trail above Berthoud Pass, Colorado at 11,300 feet elevation. We will use passive solar for much of our heat source, but need to back up the heat and provide a way to melt snow (for water) and cook. There is no road to the site, so pounds and volume are critical as well for fuel. There is little to no firewood in the basin, so we have ruled out wood stoves. Pellets will be our main back up heat source, and I hope they can be our cooking heat source as well (propane is traditionally used, but again is hard and expensive to haul plus has environmental consequences). Minimizing electric requirements would be helpful in sizing of our PV system.
Having a stove with a side-arm boiler would give us a way to move heat through the building, also hope to have the “ambiance†of a fire seen through glass. We need to supply heat to a utility area beneath the cabin, critical to maintain the health of two toilet composters and our battery bank.
The only pellet cookstove I can find is a camp model produced by Clarrypelletstove.com, but it looks to be mainly suitable for tents. I don’t know if anyone makes a back-boiler which has a hot top.
Inquiries to Pelheat.com have gone unanswered, despite paying their $17 fee and a web site promise of consultation help. Thanks for any information found! Andy Miller
Having a stove with a side-arm boiler would give us a way to move heat through the building, also hope to have the “ambiance†of a fire seen through glass. We need to supply heat to a utility area beneath the cabin, critical to maintain the health of two toilet composters and our battery bank.
The only pellet cookstove I can find is a camp model produced by Clarrypelletstove.com, but it looks to be mainly suitable for tents. I don’t know if anyone makes a back-boiler which has a hot top.
Inquiries to Pelheat.com have gone unanswered, despite paying their $17 fee and a web site promise of consultation help. Thanks for any information found! Andy Miller
