A heating system for a home in Siberia has to be quite the system to keep a house warm in such extreme temperatures. We do not have central heating systems available here in Krasnoyarsk. David and I did see some sort of the thing at a building expo but it was a huge set up for larger buildings. Since we will be heating with coal, we planned on putting to use an existing building on our property to house the stove. Keeping the stove in a seperate area away from the house helps to lessen the mess as well as providing an added safety measure of being away from our living quarters. It is also a good use of a very thick walled "banya" or Russian sauna that would be more work than it would be worth to tear down!
The process began with the digging of a ditch for lines to come from the 'banya" to the new house. We also dug under the foundation of the "banya" to allow for two pipes to be run through the ditch up to the stove system housed inside the building.
We then drilled two holes through the basement wall to facilitate the lines that we would be running to the house.
We used white polypropylene pipe; inside of insulated wrap; inside rigid conduit pipe.
After adding some insulation along the sides of the pipes, Rebekah and Ryan added some sand to further insulate the lines.
Then we add more insulation and fill the rest with dirt. Glad to have this job done! Now on to the next thing!
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