Heating my greenhouse in winter using oak logs and showing how much work it is on a daily basis to heat with wood using a wood boiler. Simple Tek Facebook - / simpletekvideos SUBSCRIBE to Simple Tek - www.youtube.co...
Second comment for me, but since "greenhouse heating" is your thing, ever hear of a smudge pot? They burn oil, any oil, but traditionally smoke. However, if you add a chimney, creating a draw, you can let one burn in your greenhouse for extended heat during a hard freeze. If you're interested, I'll build one, shoot a video and toss it up on my own tiny "show & tell" YT channel.
If you put a high tunnel greenhouse over your house, Your house would heat the greenhouse and the greenhouse would prevent your house from losing heat do to the wind
After seeing all the hype recently around sand heat storage, I just dug a hole 3 feet square and 10 feet deep, insulated it with thermal blocks then filled it with piping then loads of sand, I have a small, and I mean small, rocket stove, then the exhaust goes down into the sand pit, up, down again then up and out, I have an insulated lid on the pit. This stores loads of heat, I charge up the sand over several hours, which doesn't use that much wood, and this amount of sand lasts almost a week before I need to do it again, I have other metal ducting that goes up and down twice which is connected to a low powered fan, this blows air down and comes up very warm and keeps the greenhouse very cosy, I'm away to fit a thermostat so the fan cuts off and on again when it rises and falls below a certain temperature. The fan is powered by a battery and a couple solar panels. Works great an uses a little amount of wood.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a wood stove in the greenhouse? It would increase the CO2 in the greenhouse. The ash should be used to fertilize the specific crops that like alkaline soil.
I grew up in Manitoba, and still have family there. I was in Lac du Bonnet. Roughly where are you? I moved to the Ottawa area in 1987 so quite a while in this area of Canada. Not nearly the depth of frost. Or the same cold of winter.
What do you grow in the winter to make it worth it? I just let my Greenhouse rest in the winter. I already have so much stored. I use my Greenhouse in the winter to work out.
I’m building a 7”x7” greenhouse with a 10” high wall to 7” for vertical growing. It will have wiggle wire track and polyethylene. I’m under $700. It will have a storm door on the west and a storm window on the east.
It's a shame to use a boiler that wastes all that sweet CO2... I presume it heats more than just the greenhouse though. Waste veggie oil lanterns or grease candles work pretty well for providing heat and light and CO2 if you have good insulation and decent air tightness. Robert Murray-Smith's channel has some good DIY designs. That far north, you may need a bit more oomph though - perhaps a little fire pit to burn plant and other waste. Just air it out before entering (during the warmest part of the day, ~3pm to minimize heat loss) so you have O2
@@SimpleTek Back in the day of actual ice boxes, they used to insulate with sawdust... looks like you have access to plenty of that and wood chips to bury with the boiler pipes. They had plenty of uses for all that ash too, though you might end up with a bit less ash without the heat loss from the pipes.
