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water jacket could it work

Post in 'The Pellet Mill - Pellet and Multifuel Stoves' started by control1, Sep 15, 2008.

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  1. control1 Member

    joined: Aug 24, 2008
    114 posts
    bucks co pa
    I am venting my stove from the family room into the garage and thro the garage roof I felt this pipe it was quite hot while running the stove. Do you think it would be possible to strap a cyndrical water jacket to this pipe to collect the heat and then pump it into my baseboard heating to even out the temperature in the house. Any takers on this one
    control1, Sep 15, 2008
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  2. snikr Member

    joined: Sep 14, 2008
    110 posts
    Wallingford, VT
    It could work if you can get the water hot enough. But that is the big question.
    snikr, Sep 15, 2008
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  3. mkmh New Member

    joined: Jul 15, 2007
    407 posts
    Southern, Maine
    Nope. It would be awesome, but I really don't think you'd get any meaningful volume of water heated up with this method.
    You might succeed in cooling the pipe, which could be a bad thing (lost draft) depending upon what your venting situation is.
    mkmh, Sep 15, 2008
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