Build your own heating system. Never be cold again!
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- This video is the full length edit of the series we made on the construction of our rocket mass heater.
Imagine a sofa that turns sticks into cash. Sounds great, yes? This is even better. This eats sticks and cancels your heating bill.
Rocket mass heaters are the most effective heating systems available.
They're more efficient than any conventional heating system, including heat pumps.
They never wear out.
They require no power.
They're carbon neutral, even carbon negative.
They are the ultimate heating system for anyone wanting to live sustainably, anyone wanting to heat inexpensively, or anyone just wanting to work less.
We've had this heater over 2 years, and it's become the beating, roaring heart of our home.
The book (you definitely need this to build a heater)
The Rocket Mass Heater Builder's Guide Complete Step-by-Step Construction, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
Erica Wisner, Ernie Wisner
ISBN 9780865718234
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Where utilitarian functionality meets the fountain of human creativity, well done to you.
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Absolutely brilliant. Enjoy the heat , you deserve it a real labour of love.
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How fun to go back in time and see it from the beginning! It's a wonder!
Fine job Sir.
Made rocketstoves more then 45 years ago.
With different materials then there are today.
I have never used a mass as your sofa to store heat. Just a little mass.
On the top of the Bell you could cut out a square. Let say 300 by 300 mm or a bit less.
Welt a frame in. That can hold a thick square piece of cast-iron. That works splended to cook on or just to heat 5 liter of water in a kettle.
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I'm an industrial insulator . When you work or even just move or are near the ceramic fiber, if you like your lungs, wear the face mask.
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I found various spoons and the handle end fantastic for plastering. 😁
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Great! Thanks :)
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Do you have some shots of the finished RMH? It would be great to see it with the pallet wall completed, the pipework and other little jobs tidied up
czcams.com/video/j1tlvrmLxdA/video.html shows it oiled and in use, but the house is a long term reclamation project. It'll be quite a while before the whole wall is finished.
Amazing video great to see one being built in the UK and such an in depth video. Where in the UK would you recommend getting firebricks and the ducting from. Thanks
I bought the ducting online, from a few sources. Most of it came from eBay. The fire brick I bought delivered on a pallet because I live so far from anywhere that sells it. If I'd had the option I'd have just collected what I needed from a shop.
The glass wool sir is very dangerus for our health! What you think?
I think it's important to wear a mask when using it.
maybe surrount the rizer with fermaculite was better? that white stuff will last long enough, special the wire wrapped around it. Mine idea was to build one in the greenhouse and then pipes into the home with radiators, but I am scared for that the heat exchanger for the water will be get to hot, and need a save place to put it there. Your idea of using stones and not a drum is nice, special in a green house with plastic covering it can easely be damaged. I presume I can use just the red stones on the sides, I need heat resistance stones on the top, or red stones and a fermaculite cover and then the red stoned cover that for insulation and heat protection.
I'd avoid using vermiculite around the riser.
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture There are quite some stuff usable, like aircrete and isolation stones who need to get cut. Isolation
is the magic word.
1:22:31 in America some would say that’s “dead nuts” sort of like saying “spot on” I was curious if that’s specific to the US or if others use this term too.
I’m in Wisconsin and have never heard of “dead nuts.” May be a regional or generational thing.
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How did your drainage systems cope with the storms recently?
Absolutely fine. The biggest pond took on quite a bit of water but still has plenty of capacity yet, and the swales are already set to winter mode.
Better than the duck house with any luck.
Thank you so much for sharing this. It looks so good, well done! I'm looking to do a bench-bell system in my crofthouse (we have no clay).
How do you find the heat distribution through the house? upstairs and in adjacent rooms? Do you keep the doorways open, or do you find the heat distributes over time OK?
We just open the internal doors. Once the heater has been on twenty minutes or so the living room is bordering on too warm even, so opening internal doors regulates the heat nicely.
Probably takes some time to learn to drive! Well done and thanks again for sharing@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture
@@nancyreading5730 Thanks!
I'm looking to do this myself. For the life of me I cannot source a barrel. Can I ask how you got yours?
We found it on ebay!
Cheers@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture
Scrap metal dealers, I've sold mine from work on FB marketplace for cheap.
I'm 3 min in, and being a farmer, this video will take me several days to get through. So I'll ask a few questions ahead of time. I run a wood stove here in South Africa - have for about 10 years. Due to our horrendous electricity generation/supply issues, (google 'Load Shedding in South Africa'), I am wanting to get 'off grid' completely. About 6 months ago I connected my hot water geyser to my wood stove - it works, but just takes a lot of wood and a lot of time to get it hot - not an ideal situation in summer where it gets REAL hot here. I don't need a mass heater to heat my house, (although my wife may disagree in winter), but I am wondering if I can use one to replace my wood stove - cook top and oven - and also heat my water at the same time? Do you have any suggestions in this regard? Much appreciated. I have seen a shorter video with you and the missus sitting on the mass and so I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this one.
As it happens I have a stove/oven/water heater planned. I picked up a scrap aga stove that was being scrapped, that I'll fit a rocket core to. That'll be an experimental build though, and you need something guaranteed to work. Matt Walker has done a lot of work on stoves like you need though, and sells plans. I exchanged a couple of emails with him before I picked up the old aga, he's a very friendly, knowledgeable bloke.
walkerstoves.com/
@@CairnOfDunnCroftPermaculture - Thanks. I checked out his website, but when I convert $ to R I'll need to rob a bank to pay for those plans...😬. I'll figure this out - one way or the other...
@@The_Hairy_Farmer The really innovative bit of his design is the riserless core. But if you look through his youtube videos closely enough you can actually see the layout of that area. I know others have done so. It's a bit of a pain, but can be done.
I'm sure I've seen a design for a large cast iron stove / oven / mass heater / water heater. A video mentioning it and showing it being used. It was used in the summer on a hot day, and that's one of the downsides of using it. You can't specify whether you want the heat energy to go only to one thing and not others. It's been years since I've seen it, but if I run across the video again I'll try to remember to link it here. You know how urls work, right?
I don't know enough about your requirements and needs to be able to give any real suggestions. I'm trying to figure out what you're asking for. It sounds like you want to be able to choose to direct your heat generation only to the hot water function and not to any other function. I do not think this would be a reasonable solution. The basic designs I see in my head seem wildly impractical or unnecessarily expensive. Your best best might be to just build a dedicated and highly optimized heat source specifically to heat the hot water for your home. Also look into something to make sure that the temperature of what comes out of your tap is based on your knob instead of how hot the water in the tank is. You may experience wild temperature swings in how hot that water is.
Full disclosure, I don't operate a household wood-fired anything. What I'm saying here is based on half-remembered knowledge from diving deep into researching this a few years ago, and recently wandering back in to the subject.
Dagsè boer. Look up "Little Aussie Rockets", he has great builds for what you wanna do. If I hadn't left SA a half decade ago, I'd put something together for your hot water! Here in Auckland there is not enough cold nor lack of power for the rockets to be in demand on the South Island yet.
A re-edit?
Don't do the damper, the flow control is always at the firebox to get a full burn! Avoids creosote...
Not where I live. Above 40mph winds the damper is essential because the draw through the chimney is so hard it pulls fuel through the burn tunnel otherwise.