Rocket stove inside?

JohnyBM

Can you use a rocket stove inside a house or flat?

I hear if its well designed and you use clean dry wood it is so good that hardly any smoke comes off it.

I dont want to set off fire alarm, also consider long term smell or colouring of inside of my flat.

I would love a wood burning stove of some king but no way can have a chimney.

You can make or buy lovely little portable rocket stoves, they use rockwool for insulation so are lightweight.

If smoke was still a problem would it work to rest it on my gas hob, so put it under the extraction fan?

PaulF81

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/05/29/appeal-issued-after-barbecue-tragedy-in-tent/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/07/carbon-monoxide-school-girl-death-campsite?newsfeed=true

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18086870


If you go ahead with this you are a complete fool.

mumf

Use this indoors you will die! End of.

Ectophile

It's not the smoke that will kill you, but the carbon monoxide. Don't even think of using a solid fuel burner indoors without a properly installed chimney or flue.

muckybutt

JohnyBM wrote: »

Can you use a rocket stove inside a house or flat?

I hear if its well designed and you use clean dry wood it is so good that hardly any smoke comes off it.

I dont want to set off fire alarm, also consider long term smell or colouring of inside of my flat.

I would love a wood burning stove of some king but no way can have a chimney.

You can make or buy lovely little portable rocket stoves, they use rockwool for insulation so are lightweight.

If smoke was still a problem would it work to rest it on my gas hob, so put it under the extraction fan?

:eek::eek::eek::eek: is it April the 1st ?

ERM NO NOT EVER is the simple answer. Lighting any sort fire indoors without a chimney is a sure fire way to kill your self and anyone else in the vacinity through carbon monoxide poisoning.

grahamc2003

JohnyBM wrote: »

Can you use a rocket stove inside a house or flat?

I hear if its well designed and you use clean dry wood it is so good that hardly any smoke comes off it.

I dont want to set off fire alarm, also consider long term smell or colouring of inside of my flat.

I would love a wood burning stove of some king but no way can have a chimney.

You can make or buy lovely little portable rocket stoves, they use rockwool for insulation so are lightweight.

If smoke was still a problem would it work to rest it on my gas hob, so put it under the extraction fan?

In theory, you should get no smoke or CO during normal running with these stoves. However, during starting and stopping when the combustion chamber isn't very hot, you're bound to get smoke and CO, so not worth the risk. No heating system designs based on the rocket principle have got approval for being installed in homes, which should tell you something.

Thanks for posting about these stoves - I'm going to get a kit to see how well they work, which I expect to be almost 100% efficient, due to the very high temperatures reached which ensures all gasses are burnt (assuming the correct amount of air is sucked into the stove).

DMB79

I'm a HETAS engineer. I agree with everyone - you will die, do NOT do this!