Adding and maintaining a water reservoir to the stove

[Hoodoo Creek]

I'm building a sauna for my Finnish wife. We're installing a wood stove we got for free and I want to add a stainless steel water reservoir to thd interior of the Firebox. How do I legitimately run the two stainless pipes through the wall of the stove where its sealed? Also, how does a fella maintain the reservoir in terms of the calcium scale that builds up in the reservoir? Can the reservoir be periodically removed and filled with some form of resolver?

 

[salecker]

What are you going to use the hot water for?

 

[Hoodoo Creek]

What are you going to use the hot water for?

Its for a shower in the changing room of the sauna. My wife will take cool of showers after her sauna sessions but I'd figure she'd add a little hot water to ease that cold tap water.

 

[Max W]

Are you looking to plumb the water into a pressurized system for the shower? That would have to be designed carefully as some disastrous results have come from the pressure of poorly built systems. Judging from the craftmanship and resourcefulness I see from that lovely building you should come up with a solution. What about something attached to the exterior of the stove rather than pipes penetrating..

 

[Hoodoo Creek]

That's a great point! Especially if there was a way to thermally couple the water jacket directly to the stove.