Different heating source

[Darren]

This is a new one for me. Has anyone ever seen this and if so, what do you call it?

This sits inside a fireplace and water circulates thru it. Note the bleeder valve at top right. The piping ran down to the basement (it was disconnected); to what, I don't know.

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[hausdok]

Hi,

Yeah, I had something similar a couple of years ago; they were welded steel wood stoves with similar grates inside and a huge water tank storage tank in the house with a circulator on it. The idea was that in the winter months when they used wood to heat their home they could also heat water. When they weren't in use a conventional gas water heater sitting next to the storage tank did the water heating. I was a little troubled by the fact there was no timed circulator on the system, so, during summer months when the house wasn't being heated by the wood stove, and people weren't likely to turn on the circulator because that would have created a radiator out of those stoves during summer months, the water sat in those pipes and probably grew bacteria.

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Mike