Interesting heater

[begreen]

A friend in Germany is doing a renovation of a house they bought. This was the heating system for the whole house! It was built into a fireplace and is called an oil kachelofen. Looks like it vented into a heat exchanger that was surrounded by masonry. They are replacing it with a "pellet oven".

 

[logfarmer]

That’s wild looking!

 

[Rickb]

WTF.....

 

[mellow]

Small firebox for heating the house. How did they move the hot air around?

 

[Highbeam]

If it’s an oil heater as the name implies lots of constant btu output is available. Kuma makes a couple in the US and they look interesting.

 

[begreen]

Small firebox for heating the house. How did they move the hot air around?

Natural convection off of the masonry mass I think.