Just a few quick comments 1. They do use lotsa wood, I figure twice as much as an indoor fireplace but because they are tied into your forced air, your whole place is warm, not just your living room or the room with the fireplace. 2. Take a look at several commercial units then build a BIG firebox. Commercial units advertise square feet of heating but I think they assume dry hardwood heating a house with 3 feet of insulation and completely airtight in 60 degree outside temperature not a drafty farmhouse at twenty bellow using woodscraps or green wood. 3.The biggest problem with build it yourself is the welding. I'm not criticizing your welding skills. The problem is you build a firebox, surround that with a waterjacket, then surround that with insulation, then a protective covering. Simple? yes. The problem comes when your fire heats up the metal water jacket and the water cools it you get uneven expanding and contracting of the metal which causes stress cracking especially at the welded joints. If you run your smokepipe through the water or you install a baffle to try to collect more heat it puts many of your welded joints in a location that you can't get to to repair when you get stress cracks that pee water on yer fire. 4. I have (2) 200 gallon oil tanks in my basement that are hooked into my boiler water. The advantage is, if my power goes off, I have 400 gallons of hot water in my basement that will keep my home warm for several hours simply by radient heat. 5. Outdoor stoves are good...woodchips sawdust bugs ants bark smoke all outside and a controled even heat inside, but I have wondered about building a indoor woodstove with a large water resevoir on top that could be plumbed to a forced air system for even heating, repairs are simple with a separate water tank, heat losses are inside your basement or heated garage so they are not really lost. 6. For your insurance company you gotta be willing to call their bluff.If enough people said "Thanks, I really didn't need to spend that two grand anyway" and walked away insurance companies might figure out that hot water really isn't all that flamable or hazzardous to unfinished basements with concrete floors.
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