I got a mobile home several years ago and I also got a new 104,000 BTU
wood stove. The property was in bad shape so I did not install the
wood stove until I could fix the place up. a couple years later I got the trailer next door. I spend about $300 a month just to heat these trailers and i decided to use the
wood stove as the heat source for both. I have a knack for problem solving and a lot of
experience in many trades but I am not sure exactly what would work the best as a heat exchanger at the stove, what kind of pipe or tubing to circulate the fluid and what temps I would be dealing with in the system. I was thinking a copper coil on top of the stove with some thermal mass around it to heat the fluid, a two zone manifold with circulator pumps, and buried line to the other trailer, 40ft from the heat source with base board passive heat of another heat exchanger with forced air.
I am on a fixed income so doing this a cheaply as I can is important. Would CPVC work as the conveyance or would PEX work? What would be the best fluid,
water with antifreeze or something else? I do not know what kind of temperatures each stage would likely have.
Is a boiler type heat exchanger at the stove a better choice than directly pumping to the other house? I am planning to set this up this summer because I can't afford
electric heat and I need a more reliable heat source as the failure of the Texas power grid left us without power for four days.
Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.