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Can you put a Wood Doctor in a shipping container?
I am considering having a Wood Doctor (outdoor wood furnace) heat my house and large detached garage.
I hear that they waste a lot of heat and therefore waste a lot of firewood.
I have several shipping containers around my property. (many people here call them 'seacans').
I am mulling over the idea of installing the furnace in the seacan, putting the chimney through the top of the container off course, and the boiler pipes through the bottom and underground to the buildings.
I thought that this would help to reduce the amount of heat that is wasted and perhaps help the furnace last longer, out of the elements. Also, wood stored at the other end of the container would be heated, somewhat, and kept super dry.
I would leave the doors open for ventilation, which will allow some heat to escape, but I can't help but think that less heat would be wasted this way than having the furnace sitting out in the wind and snow.
It would be located plenty far away from the buildings, so any fire would be self contained.
Any thoughts?
2 Answers
- USAFisnumber1Lv 79 months agoFavorite Answer
You need an outside air intake for the furnace so besides the smoke stack up the top you need to have a hole and possibly pipe to bring air into the container for combustion. You also have to keep it the proper distance from the sides of the shipping container. Then again, they did give you installation instructions, you should probably follow those.
- Spock (rhp)Lv 79 months ago
where are you? do you cut your own wood? what environmental restrictions apply? [if this is a commercial use, I'm pretty sure it won't pass EPA restrictions in the US, even if you're in the back woods somewhere.] did you figure out the cost of trenching required to bury those highly insulated pipes? [yes, you can run watertight electrical conduit in the same trench -- ABOVE the hot water/steam lines, of course.] Insulating the enclosure would help, of course. -- grampa