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Adapting wood stove to baseboard heat

zdelles6913
zdelles6913 Member Posts: 1
edited April 15 in THE MAIN WALL
I am looking into the possibility of moving my woodstove to my basement and adapting it to work with my oil boiler for baseboard heating. 

My thought is to add a heat exchanger to the back of the stove (there is a 2 inch or so gap where the blower pushes air up toward the top of the stove) and possibly adding a coil around the stove pipe then feeding preheated water to the oil boiler, using the pump on the loop to push the water through the baseboard heat in the house, and return back to the stove. 

Hopefully resulting in more efficient heating of the house, and less fuel oil usage. Another positive factor would be having heat in the basement as I currently do not have any heat at all other than wood stove in living room.

Curious if anyone has accomplished something like this, and what sort of issues I may run into. I'm having a difficult time searching anything close to what I have imagined.

Thank you for any insight. 

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