This is the most common use for a Burnrite outdoor wood stove. A Burnrite outdoor wood stove can be hooked into your existing forced air ventilation system and be used to heat your home in much the same way. The only difference is that your heat is coming from the wood stove outside, making it a little safer (while very, very rare, a faulty gas furnace can explode in the home). You will still use a thermostat to control the heat in your home, but you won't be using gas or paying for gas.

One of the many uses for a Burnrite outdoor wood stove is to heat your water in place of a gas fed water heater. A Burnrite representative can explain how our installers can set up your outdoor wood furnace to also heat your water ,using our advanced heat exchangers.

The domestic water line connects to a heat exchanger on the Burnrite outdoor wood furnace. The pressure on the supply line forces water through the heat exchanger when you open any hot water faucet inside your home. The water is heated as it passes through the heat exchanger, and then goes in the cold water input on your hot water heater. This way your stove is preheating all your domestic hot water and providing hot water for all your household needs, which in return will produce a decrease in your hot water heating cost.

Interested in using your Burnrite stove for both domestic water and in-floor heating?

Normally, the Burnrite outdoor wood stove is plumbed to a heat exchanger. This allows the outdoor wood furnace to heat a tank of potable water, which in turn can provide domestic hot water and floor heating.

When using the outdoor wood furnace for just hot water, the water from the outdoor wood stove to this heat exchanger flows 24 hours a day in a closed loop, making the heat exchanger "continuously active" (i.e. always hot). Whenever needed, the storage tank draws heat from the heat exchanger and maintains a constant tank temperature. The advantages of a continuously active heat exchanger loop are twofold:

1. The pipe from the outdoor wood stove to the house can be buried in a shallow trench (normally about 1 ft.), saving a lot of labor and/or expensive excavating costs (obviously, with constantly circulating hot water in the supply and return lines, freezing is impossible).
2. By keeping the water in the outdoor wood stove constantly circulating, the temperature of the water is even throughout the system.

When you are using the outdoor wood stove for both hot water and in-floor heating, it will not run constantly, it will shut off the circulator when the in-home heat hits the point set by the thermostat. So, if you want to run a radiant system directly off your outdoor wood stove, always bury your supply and return pipes below the frost line. As explained above, the water to and from your house will only be flowing when a radiant zone calls for heat. And because many outdoor wood outdoor wood stoves are 30 to 100 feet away from the home, a lot of water can be sitting in a cold trench for a long time. If that trench is above the frost line, you could have frozen and bursting pipes.

In-floor heating, or underfloor heating, is a form of central heating which uses heat conduction and radiant heat for indoor climate control, rather than forced air heating which relies on convection. While there are higher installation costs (unless a gas powered system is already in place) this method of home heating can be a great alternative for those who have issues with severe cold extremities (i.e. feet and legs).

Burnrite can set up our outdoor wood furnaces to provide the heat energy to such a system. By tying the heat exchanger from a Burnrite outdoor wood stoves into your in-floor heating system, we can keep your feet warm and happy!

Interested in using your Burnrite stove for both domestic water and in-floor heating?

Normally, the Burnrite outdoor wood stove is plumbed to a heat exchanger. This allows the outdoor wood furnace to heat a tank of potable water, which in turn can provide domestic hot water and floor heating.

When using the outdoor wood furnace for just hot water, the water from the outdoor wood stove to this heat exchanger flows 24 hours a day in a closed loop, making the heat exchanger "continuously active" (i.e. always hot). Whenever needed, the storage tank draws heat from the heat exchanger and maintains a constant tank temperature. The advantages of a continuously active heat exchanger loop are twofold:

1. the pipe from the outdoor wood stove to the house can be buried in a shallow trench (normally about 1 ft.), saving a lot of labor and/or expensive excavation costs (obviously, with constantly circulating hot water in the supply and return lines, freezing is impossible), and
2. by keeping the water in the outdoor wood stove constantly circulating, the temperature of the water is even throughout the system.

When you are using the outdoor wood stove for both hot water and in-floor heating, it will not run as constantly, as it will shut off the circulator when the in-home heat hits the point set by the thermostat. So, what this means is that if you want to run a radiant system directly off your wood outdoor wood stove, always bury your supply and return pipes below the frost line. As explained above, the water to and from your house will only be flowing when a radiant zone calls for heat. And because many outdoor wood stoves are 30 to 100 feet away from the home, a lot of water can be sitting in a cold trench for a long time. If that trench is above the frost line, you could have frozen and bursting pipes.

A Burnrite outdoor wood stove can be used in place of traditional methods to supply heat to a pool or hot tub water. Depending on the size of the pool or hot tub, this application can take more wood than normal, in particular if the outdoor wood furnace is also used for home heating and hot water.

A pool or hot tub heat exchanger can be tied into a Burnrite outdoor wood stove in place of a normal electric or gas powered heater. This would save both money and cut on greenhouse gas emissions, while still enjoying warm water for your pool or hot water for your hot tub.

Some townships regulate the way that a pool can be heated. Please check with your local building inspector before committing to a purchase.

Imagine never having to shovel snow or break up ice in your concrete driveway again! Our installers can work with your preferred concrete installer to give you a heated driveway, using a Burnrite outdoor wood stove, almost immune to the winter elements. It is functionally very similar to in-floor heating, only in your driveway instead.

It should be noted that there can be considerable expense in adding this option to an existing driveway, as the whole driveway surface must be removed so that the needed heating elements and pipes can be installed under it, and a new driveway surface put down. This option is therefore recommended for new home construction, or adding the system when a driveway is being resurfaced, due to wear and age already.

Burnrite outdoor wood stoves can also be installed as the heat source in homes with Zoned Heating.

Zoned Heating is the installation of additional thermostats, air dampers, and controls to allow for separate areas of the home to be heated to different, specific temperatures. This allows you to save fuel (money) with a gas furnace or wood (time and labor) with a Burnrite outdoor wood stoves. A Burnrite dealer can work with you to have your heating system updated to zoned heating during the install.

While some call the older method of space heaters and indoor (and messy) wood stoves as Zoned Heating, the newer methods are both more cost efficient and functional.

Burnrite can install a stove in most existing pole barn designs, as well. If you are already heading outside to work in your pole barn, why not keep it warm with an outdoor wood furnace from Burnrite? Depending on the size of your pole barn and house, one Burnrite outdoor wood stove could heat both your home and pole barn. Our trained dealers and installers can help you plan out your project needs.

If you are looking at new pole barn construction, Burnrite can work with your prefered builder to integrate a Burnrite outdoor wood stove into your new pole barn.

Just as easily as we can heat your home, a Burnrite outdoor wood stove can heat your garage, as well. Why be cold in your garage this winter when you have to maintain your car? Burnrite can heat an unattached garage with an outdoor wood stove just as easily as it can your home. Heating an attached garage is just as easy as heating the rest of the home!

A greenhouse is a great way to have fresh flowers all year long and grow your own fresh fruit and vegetables. For a year-round greenhouse in cooler Northern climates, a greenhouse needs to be heated.

You already go outside to the greenhouse daily to work your green magic. Why not stop and put some wood in your Burnrite stove while you are out there? Heat your greenhouse with a Burnrite stove and reduce the chance of gas related fumes hurting your crops. Depending on the size of the home and greenhouse, both could be heated by one Burnrite outdoor wood stove.