The importance of having a furnace for the days of winter comes in varying degrees depending on how far your location is from the equator. The farther your location is, the more that you’ve got to have a heat reclaimer because it is going to be a lot colder right there. But you don’t just go to the market and pick up the cheapest heat reclaimer that you can find. Neither should you buy the most expensive. Heat reclaimers work in different levels and like in almost every industry, price is not really proportional to quality which means that you must first educate yourself on how to pick a heat reclaimer.

Magic Heat Reclaimer for Wood, Oil or Coal Stove – 6 in., Model# MH-6-R

Why to have a heat reclaimer?

A heat reclaimer, as its name implies, is supposed to reclaim the released heat from the furnace that warms up your house. The heat that is then captured by the heat reclaimer is released back into the room. The utilization of the reclaimed heat from the furnace actually means that you are able to save money because instead of using more fuel (wool, coal, or oil) for additional heat, you’ll be using the reclaimed heat instead.

One of the things that you should know on how to pick a heat reclaimer is that the best heat reclaimer is not exactly the one that could release the highest temperature alone. A really good heat reclaimer should not only be able to capture as much heat as it can, it must also allow you to control the temperature of the heat you want to release. Figuring out if your prospective heat reclaimer can do that is rather simple:

Just look for a valve that indicates the temperature of the heat you want to release and you’re good to go. Also, see if the maximum temperature that it could release would suffice for the heat you need to have during winter. For example, if you’re living in the interiors of Alaska, you would need to have a heat reclaimer that could release as least 130°F in order to achieve room temperature.

Vogelzang International HR-8 Stove Pipe Heat Reclaimer

Another thing that you have to consider when picking a heat reclaimer is whether it can easily be cleaned or not. This is must be taken with greater consideration when you are using a wool or coal furnace. The reason is that the ash made during the burning of the fuel could get into the heat reclaimer and corrupt the air released into the room. Here is another quick search for heat reclaimers that are easy to clean:

There are heat reclaimers that are available in the market which have a built-in ash remover inside them. With a built-in ash remover, removing the ash from the furnace only takes a switching of the ash remover and half of the job is done. After that, it would still be best if you clean the heat reclaimer using with a chimney, stove, or pipe cleaner.

Too easy as it may seem, those are only the things you need to know in learning how to pick a heat reclaimer.

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