Me Want Jotul

[Simonkenton]

I am going to build an addition to the log cabin next year, and I am going to get a Jotul Oslo! Can't wait.
Currently I have a Waterford stove, decent little stove but not real good. Small fire box.
My new log cabin will be built around the Jotul, it will be installed in the corner with a hearth made of 3 inch thick rocks that I will get out of Bear Creek. I can't wait for a good blizzard, 2 years from now in the NC mountains, and I will hunker down in my log cabin and load logs into my Jotul.

 

[Pellet_Pete]

Sounds like a great idea to me! That photo ought to keep you motivated in the meantime.

 

[begreen]

Good plan. You'll love that Oslo.

 

[webby3650]

I've got one for sale, although it might be gone this weekend. They are great stoves!

 

[begreen]

Oh oh. What is coming in next?

 

[webby3650]

Oh oh. What is coming in next?

 

[begreen]

Broke down and bought a mini-split?

 

[webby3650]

Broke down and bought a mini-split?

What in the world is that?

 

[begreen]

 

[xman23]

Built my cabin around the Oslo here. It's the only heat at -15 F

 

[Warm_in_NH]

GF has the Oslow, first stove I ever had to run. I love it. It's an elegant beast, that thing can can get loaded right up and runs great.
We're replacing the hearth in a couple weeks, once she figures out what we're (me, I'm) gonna build.

 

[Simonkenton]

Those Oslos are looking good! Good enough for Yankee winters, good enough for the North Carolina Mountains. After I do the addition my cabin will be 1,600 square feet, well-built, and well-insulated.

 

[xman23]

Those Oslos are looking good! Good enough for Yankee winters, good enough for the North Carolina Mountains. After I do the addition my cabin will be 1,600 square feet, well-built, and well-insulated.

That's key, "well insulated", I'm heating about the same Sq ft. and a basement that's not heated with the stove. Very open floor plan, cathedral ceilings helps the concentrated heat get around.

 

[ailanthus]

Those Oslos are looking good! Good enough for Yankee winters, good enough for the North Carolina Mountains. After I do the addition my cabin will be 1,600 square feet, well-built, and well-insulated.

You'll easily reach underwear temperatures in the coldest weather with the oslo in that setup.

 

[Warm_in_NH]

If you look at the pic I posted by the dogs ball on the floor you can see where we patched the floor in after removing a wall and closet that separated the rooms. Before we took the wall out the stove room would get too hot to even sit it.
It now comfortably heats a 1200 square foot 1850s house with very little insulation and many original windows, and two more narrow doorways.
Bonus part is the stove was free! Friend was doing a paint job and the homeowner asked if he wanted it, just had to "get it out of there", done!

 

[Simonkenton]

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.