Building a small log cabin...Help..im 16?

Question

Ok im built my log cabin its about 20 fet by 20 feet....took me long hours .Gained plenty of muscle...and the hard part was no help..

The problem is heating the damn thing during this winter... any suggestions?

I was thinking about putting a Barrel of Water above a fire pit and conecting pvc pipe to the barral and making a, I guess you could say, cork screw up the inside of the wall's ...think it will heat it up?

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

congrats i have a 20 x 20 also.
get a wood stove , or a ventless propane heater, med size have you got elect to it yet?
a 4,000 watt elect heater will heat it thats what i use,

Answer 2

use an old radiator from a car inside the cabin to dissipate the heat. You will have to make a transition from pvc pipe to the radiator fitting. You will also need a pump to circulate the water. A small 12v pump and a car battery will work. Place a small 12v fan in front of the radiator in the cabin to help draw the heat from the radiator. Build a metal structure around the fire pit to the barrel of water so the heat wont escape, allow room at the bottom for fresh air to enter the fire and the smoke to go around the barrel. Don't start a forest fire or fall asleep with the fire burning. The water will stay hot for a while, and will also take a long tome to heat up. After you put the fire out, and the water is hot, I think it might continue to heat for a few hours. Bring an extra battery, use deep cycle batterys.

Answer 3

You can use a fifty gallon barrel laid on it's side, cut a hole in the side of it then run a chimney pipe up through the roof. Just make sure when you cut into the barrel, not to use a cutting torch! Or Boom! Your not there any longer! Use a hack saw. Go to the library and find a book on this.

Answer 4

Cast iron wood heater is best and use a insulated stove pipe section going throght the roof section,you can use standard pipe for the rest.You don't want a roof fire.Also you need a metel sleeve on roof top where the pipe comes thru.Its just a sheet of metel fitting around the stove pipe but flat on roof.(in case of sparks).Good job!You can also cook on this heater but not bake bread.

Answer 5

Great work! Your wanting to make a radiator out of PVC. It's a great idea but won't work. PVC transfers heat well but doesn't stand up to heat as it becomes soft. Try using copper tubing instead. It transfers heat well and can hold up to high temperatures.

Answer 6

Can't use PVC for hot water.

CPVC is for hot water, but has temperature/pressure restrictions.

Answer 7

Very cool! If you have the fire pit, just make a covered escape in the center of the roof. You have to chink between the logs, to stop the wind. Mud and straw, concrete or other.

Answer 8

Wood stove with good stove pipe. Your idea will warm your hands if you hold on to the pvc.

Answer 9

Critics neglect the fact that Jesus spoke Aramaic, and, as John 1:42 tells us, in everyday life he actually referred to Peter as Kepha or Cephas (depending on how it is transliterated). It is that term which is then translated into Greek as petros. Thus, what Jesus actually said to Peter in Aramaic was: "You are Kepha and on this very kepha I will build my Church." Your statement is false or rather a faulty knowledge of Greek. I’m sure you’ll agree with me that we must get behind the Greek to the Aramaic." As you know, Aramaic was the language Jesus and the apostles and all the Jews in Palestine spoke. It was the common language of the place. We know that Jesus spoke Aramaic because some of his words are preserved for us in the Gospels. Look at Matthew 27:46, where he says from the cross, ‘Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?’ That isn’t Greek; it’s Aramaic, and it means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ In Paul’s epistles—four times in Galatians and four times in 1 Corinthians—we have the Aramaic form of Simon’s new name preserved for us. In our English Bibles it comes out as Cephas. That isn’t Greek. That’s a transliteration of the Aramaic word Kepha (rendered as Kephas in its Hellenistic form). "And what does Kepha mean? It means a rock, the same as petra. (It doesn’t mean a little stone or a pebble. What Jesus said to Simon in Matthew 16:18 was this: ‘You are Kepha, and on this kepha I will build my Church.’ When you understand what the Aramaic says, you see that Jesus was equating Simon and the rock; he wasn’t contrasting them. We see this vividly in some modern English translations, which render the verse this way: ‘You are Rock, and upon this rock I will build my church. Greek and Aramaic have different grammatical structures. In Aramaic you can use kepha in both places in Matthew 16:18. In Greek you encounter a problem arising from the fact that nouns take differing gender endings. The Greek word petra is feminine. You can use it in the second half of Matthew 16:18 without any trouble. But you can’t use it as Simon’s new name, because you can’t give a man a feminine name—at least back then you couldn’t. You have to change the ending of the noun to make it masculine. When you do that, you get Petros, which was an already-existing word meaning rock. As Greek scholars—even non-Catholic ones—admit, the words petros and petra were synonyms in first century Greek. They meant "small stone" and "large rock" in some ancient Greek poetry, centuries before the time of Christ, but that distinction had disappeared from the language by the time Matthew’s Gospel was rendered in Greek. The difference in meaning can only be found in Attic Greek, but the New Testament was written in Koine Greek—an entirely different dialect. In Koine Greek, both petros and petra simply meant "rock." If Jesus had wanted to call Simon a small stone, the Greek "lithos" would have been used. Look at the way Matthew 16:15-19 is structured. After Peter gives a confession about the identity of Jesus, the Lord does the same in return for Peter. Jesus does not say, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are an insignificant pebble and on this rock I will build my Church. . . . I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven." Jesus is giving Peter a three-fold blessing, including the gift of the keys to the kingdom, not undermining his authority. To say that Jesus is downplaying Peter flies in the face of the context. God Bless.

Answer 10

um why dont you buy a trailer. and you DO NOT need a log cabin . i am sure you have a mother and father.