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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

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ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 08:32 AM Oct 2013

Hot water from wood heat ideas [View all]

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I have friends who have a large factory built cook-stove with pipes inside the firebox just for that purpose.

They save alot of wood by having the 60 gallon tank hooked permanently to the cook stove.

Their tank is not insulated, on purpose.

When the fire goes out during the night, the tank radiates heat well into the daytime.

They have an enclosed porch outside their door, all screened in for hot water and cooking in the summer time.

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