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6 years 8 months ago #39467 by Danjah

Hi all,

I just read this thread www.lifestyleblock.co.nz/lsb-forum/showthread.php?t=17376

Great to get so many recommendations, at this point I still feel like what is available is overkill for me.

I have a 5x3m shed that gets pretty cold but I spend a bit of time in, I just need something safe, efficient and cheap, most options I've read about on Google so far heat whole houses and or cost thousands !!

In theory if the Big One hits of like to keep my kids warm if my solid shed remains in tact too.. But i'll cross that bridge...

Any ideas for my situation?

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6 years 8 months ago #505177 by WillEyre

Just what is your situation?
It sounds pretty dire and this talk of the 'Big One' hitting suggests to me that you are expecting the Apocalypse.
I stand to be corrected but it just doesn't sound like you're living in New Zealand. So you just might be asking the wrong people for advice.

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6 years 8 months ago #505181 by Hawkspur

If your little shed is not too draughty, and is lined, and even better, insulated, you could probably use the Little Cracker woodburner, which is designed for campervans and other small spaces, so is very small.

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6 years 7 months ago #505971 by Kiwi Tussock

It depends on if you want it to heat just the room or want to heat water and or want an oven in its frame.
(1) Small, single oven but an insulated cooker = an old Doric. (I like these) I saw a really nice one down Oamaru. Often used in cribs and even boats. Coal or wood can be used as fuel. Was made by the popular (& bigger) Wellstood but then was made by ESSE.
(2) Uninsulated and small fire box = an old Dover 6 or Dover 7 (Number is width (inches) of firebox)
(3) A tiny one just for heat & room for a small kettle or small pot = an old Miro

(4) Even an old chippy would heat the room with a section of single skinned flue but it needs to be piped into a H/W cyl. They can be got for $50 for quite a good one. Sometimes on Trademe, they are called A Distructor or something like that. They sometimes come up when searching for Coal Range on Trademe..

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6 years 7 months ago #506069 by LongRidge

Check very, very carefully what is permitted by the Local Council rules, the Building Regulations, and your insurance company. If it has not been constructed and installed correctly then the Insurance Co will be unlikely to pay out when you burn the building down.

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6 years 7 months ago #506088 by Rod Brown

If you spend a bit of time in the shed I'd assume it has electricity connected! therefore a $20 - $30 fan electric heater is probably your cheapest option without a large capital outlay. The few hundred which could be spent on a wood burner will buy a lot of electricity.

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6 years 7 months ago #506089 by muri

You cannot really compare the warmth from an electric fire with the warmth from a wood fire, The two are quite different.
Apart from insulating which I would say is very important, I would be looking at getting a little pot bellied stove second hand but they are still not cheap to install and the flue kits cost the same for a cheap second hand one or a brand new one so add perhaps another $1000 for the flue and installation, on top of purchase.
Then there is also the cost of wood to fire the stove

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6 years 7 months ago #506091 by Rod Brown

The shed is only 5m by 3m !!!!

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6 years 7 months ago #506097 by WillEyre

I'm drawn to wonder, apart from this being a mildly interesting academic exercise, if the poster of this thread is ever going to return and reap all this
offered wisdom.
I also have the feeling that 'Danjah' lives far away from NZ and any advice of brands of heater, etc, are pretty much irrelevant.

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6 years 7 months ago #506100 by muri

There are many posts where you never hear again from the poster, especially when they are asking for help with animals.
The size of an area to be heated is not important if it is cold, uninsulated and the wind whistles through, which is why a wood stove would be better than a heater, especially if the shed is located in a very cold area.

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6 years 7 months ago #506102 by Andrea1

I'm curious as the why the Big One must be the Apocalypse? As I read it, I thought of the Alpine fault doing what 'they' say it's going to do. That's a big enough one for me! And a fire going in a quake that big would certainly cause for concern.

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6 years 7 months ago #506127 by RichardW

I agree Andrea,the 'Big One' is not what many of us would consider as a 'Apocalypse' but is more a inevitability event that will in time return to normality,an Apocalypse is 'the end of the world'.

And as for these people who join up on here ask a one question and never responded back to any of the advice given...well!! whats the point even giving my thoughts.

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6 years 7 months ago #506129 by WillEyre

Well, regardless of the possibility of this being sarcasm, it is exactly the point I was making!
I do happen to think that if 'free' on-line advice is asked for and given, it is politic to acknowledge it.
It's also now obvious that after using the 'apocalypse' allusion I should've appended - '(joke, lol)'
In this instance I wasn't going to spend time explaining something (that I have some knowledge about) until I had a better idea of what the poster's 'situation' actually was and that they were ever going to read it.

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6 years 7 months ago #506132 by Andrea1

Fair enough, Will Eyre, I agree with you about 'one-hit wonders' (more than one meaning implied!) littering the internet. Politeness will go a long way....

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