HVAC

Just had a local HVAC guy look at the Koker and he recommends adding 5-6 more hot air registers and 3 more cold air returns. He said that I bought the big stove with the big blower, should do it the right way. Some how I see $$ in my futre, but I'll be toasty.

depends on how much volume you have to move around, I think the KOkers have a 1500cfm blower, about the same as a normal furnace, which can have a lot of ducts.

I agree. I've connected my Koker into the plenum of my forced air furnace and cold air duct and it heats the entire house very well.
-Len

I can second or in this case third that, my Koker is tied into the cold air duct & set up so that if needed the furnace blower will also kick on but very rarely has. Keeps my little modular home nice & toasty.
Is that Koker your only heat source or tied in with something else?

No I have oil furnace and hot water baseboards. The past few years burning coal, the oil only came on occoasionally (1 tank per year, does hot water too.) I had two hot air registers and one cold air return using the Hitzer hand fired stove. Now with the Koker I will have a hot and cold air register in almost every room. Now with it just hooked up half ass the house is staying around 70 and it's 29 out right now. Thought about adding the coils for the hot water, but Koker is at one end of house and oil furnace at the other.

Qball wrote:No I have oil furnace and hot water baseboards. The past few years burning coal, the oil only came on occoasionally (1 tank per year, does hot water too.) I had two hot air registers and one cold air return using the Hitzer hand fired stove. Now with the Koker I will have a hot and cold air register in almost every room. Now with it just hooked up half ass the house is staying around 70 and it's 29 out right now. Thought about adding the coils for the hot water, but Koker is at one end of house and oil furnace at the other.

Pardon me for saying so but you don't have a furnace, you have a boiler. Furnaces make hot air and boilers make hot water.

Yeah, what he said. It's an expensive oil burning thingy.