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Comment by Jim Fisk on March 27, 2014 at 6:11am

Greenhouses are real heat hogs so it might take more than you think to keep it warm. I can fill that stove with 2 big arm fulls of 30" wood logs and it will go about 12 hrs. in our 24x24 GH. That's a lot of pellets. We are fortunate to have plenty of tall hard woods so all we do is harvest our own fuel. Of course we purchased this prop with that in mind and we have all the equipment to make it easy including a loader that carries half a cord at a time and the best splitter I have ever used.

Comment by Johan Prins on March 27, 2014 at 5:46am

Sorry, I saw the double wall feed-through / thimble in another photo just after posting. I'm (among others) a ood heating installer (almost exclusively log wood or pellets central heating, though), which explains my reflexes :-)

I hope to attach my AP system in a terrace/greenhouse to my dwelling soon (at least before next winter, and heat the water with a loop tee'ed off from the wood pellets central heating then, as well as use all the "waste" heat from the flue, as far as condensation allows, that is.

Comment by Jim Fisk on March 27, 2014 at 5:38am

That's a thimble around the flue. No foil, 1/2" plywood. It does look a bit scary. Not to worry, been heating with wood since the 60's and no unintentional fires yet. Running 4 woodstoves this Winter and we're back down to 18F last night again (Mar. 27th). It only takes about an inch of air gap to protect the wood from catching although I prefer 2". I was a vol fireman in ME for years and taught people how to set up flues and put out chimney fires.

Comment by Johan Prins on March 27, 2014 at 1:51am

flue pipe feeding right through wood and plastic foil?