Adam Hill

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Anyway I don't have a house yet... So the question is, in an ideal world if you where building a house from scratch and could design it anyway you wanted what would be the ideal layout?

I'm just guessing but here are some numbers I've just pulled off the top of my head
..................Length..Width..Area..Perimeter. Kitchen...........20......15.....300...70........ Bedroom...........20......20.....400...80........ Bedroom...........20......20.....400...80........ Bedroom...........20......20.....400...80........ Walk in wardrobe..15......15.....225...60........ Living room.......35......35.....1225..140....... Study.............15......15.....225...60........ Office............15......15.....225...60........ Bathroom..........15......15.....225...60........ Toilet............10......10.....100...40........ ..........................Total..3725..730.......

I'd also have a large garage, pantry, a large green house and large porch but they would all be unheated

I don't see how the heat would distribute around a multi room building. If you had a RMH in every room that would work just fine but the goal was just the one. I wonder if a person had garden water hose/air ducts embedded just under the surface in the cob walls, that went all over the house that may conduct heat well enough without any pumps. A cob wall will retain its heat yes but if it's no where near the fire it wont get any heat in the first place.

Either, I'm thinking you would have to have a completely open plan, single floor building with the RMH in the centre of the building. Hopefully the air would be pumped around the large room by convection. It would be a bit hit and miss though. Only other way I can see is to have the RMH heat water and pump that around to distribute the heat but that has it's problems. The problem is going to be distributing the heat I think.

Hi there
I (half, I was busy elsewhere)listened to the most recent podcast (i think) anyway one of the things that I highlighted was Ernie's comment that you could heat a 5000square foot building with a single 8inch RMH if the building was designed correctly. Can you elaborate on what this design would look like?

Thanks Adam