TassieTiger wrote:brett1868 wrote:Keep in mind that any type of combustion within an enclosed area you need to consider carbon monoxide. I'm doing something similar with building a "Cabin" from a shipping container, I used a 40' high cube reefer as it's already insulated and the stainless steel interior makes it easier to clean. I'm going to use diesel heaters that run from 12v and plumb the intake / exhaust to the exterior.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8KW-12V-Diesel-Air-Heater-W-LCD-Switch-Silencer-For-Car-Trucks-Boats-Trailer-M2/132779587088?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
I worry about several things with diesel heaters...as you've already mentioned - CO can be an issue, the wind can do strange things sometimes...fuel is a steadfast requirement for heat and of course - ar#$holes in the middle of nowhere can and will wreck anything...how do you intend to plumb it into the skin - exhaust it ? Dont you then open the "skin" to vermin ingest ? I get over paranoid about CO since a colleague jumped into a telstra manhole and did not come out...
Edit - just googled and answered my own questions re these 12v diesel heaters...but I still somehow want to try and utilise the wood fire. Someone else has mentioned running a copper pipe inside of the exhaust but run the copper into the fire and have it filled with coolant with blow off valve for pressure - the heat from the fire will get the coolant to boiling temp, copper is a good conductor of heat, so it should resonate heat upwards over the course of the day and keep the room a few degrees warmer at night as a result....but F me - complicated to set up...
bigfellascott wrote:https://www.sydneydieselheaters.com.au/
We use a 5KW chinee one to heat our kitchen/dinning and lounge rooms in our 1890's Qlder here in the highlands of CQ, keeps those rooms at a comfortable 25 degrees even on the odd winter morns when the temps dips into the negitives.
Tas, it is probably a bit late, but I would have cut a square section out of the end wall, made a steel box to fit on the outside with flue and chimney (detachable for transport to site), and either lined with refractory brick for a fireplace or put a small wood heater in it. Temp and air qualitity comtrolled by opening/closing window/vent at opposite end of container and only making a small fire in the first place. Of course this could still be done on site by cutting the hole and then building fireplace with flue and chimney out of Bessa block or just stone and mortor.