My solar/fire drum collectors

The plan is to pull air thru my little wood stove closet in the middle of my walk out basement (my main living area), which contains my wood stove, six 55 gal steel drums, my water heater, and some other yet to be determined water containers.
From that closet I'll have a vent to the laundry room. One wall of that room has an 11' work bench, which I will close off underneath. There is a shelf under it for a bunch of gallon jugs stacked 2 high maybe, and more will go on the floor under that. I'll have a fan at the far end of the bench furthest from the woodstove. The other end of the bottom of the bench will vent out into the main room. So air will be pulled through the storage closet with the woodstove, through the laundry room, then pushed under the work bench which holds maybe 200 one gallon jugs.
The idea of course is to have a hot fire (or hot solar heat) without having a hot house.
My upstairs solar collectors will be blown thru the same way as heat from the woodstove. When I need heat from the storage, I can turn on the fan and it will pull air over the storage the same as when it is pulling it thru for collecting.
Does this seem logical?
My other question is how to make the drums more conductive. Any ideas on soldering little fins on or something? Maybe some salvage fin tubing wrapped tightly around? I figured just sitting 2 liter bottles high around them and maybe tying them tight to the drum would help.
Last winter I had the drums and the woodstove and solar, but hard to say how effective it was. It's a work in progress :) I've improved insulation for this year, but still working on that. The plan is to be 100% solar before I die :)
Oh, I also have a 4 gallon covered pot of water on my woodstove with a copper coil in it that thermosyphons to my water heater, which sits up on one of the barrels ... that worked pretty well last year. I took the plate off the stove so the fire hits the pot directly.
My next trick is to get the heat into my slab which has PEX in it. I'm thinking fin tubing that will thermosyphon to another tank (old water heater probably) upstairs. As it gets warm enough it will pump thru my slab. This would have some sort of fluid that won't wear out my PEX I guess. Maybe a smaller tank would be in order for that job. Any helpful hints?
Any pearls of wisdom would be appreciated.
Bill west central Illinois

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The plan is to pull air thru my little wood stove closet in the middle of my walk out basement (my main living area), which contains my wood stove, six 55 gal steel drums, my water heater, and some other yet to be determined water containers.
From that closet I'll have a vent to the laundry room. One wall of that room has an 11' work bench, which I will close off underneath. There is a shelf under it for a bunch of gallon jugs stacked 2 high maybe, and more will go on the floor under that. I'll have a fan at the far end of the bench furthest from the woodstove. The other end of the bottom of the bench will vent out into the main room. So air will be pulled through the storage closet with the woodstove, through the laundry room, then pushed under the work bench which holds maybe 200 one gallon jugs.
The idea of course is to have a hot fire (or hot solar heat) without having a hot house.
My upstairs solar collectors will be blown thru the same way as heat from the woodstove. When I need heat from the storage, I can turn on the fan and it will pull air over the storage the same as when it is pulling it thru for collecting.
Does this seem logical?
My other question is how to make the drums more conductive. Any ideas on soldering little fins on or something? Maybe some salvage fin tubing wrapped tightly around? I figured just sitting 2 liter bottles high around them and maybe tying them tight to the drum would help.
Last winter I had the drums and the woodstove and solar, but hard to say how effective it was. It's a work in progress :) I've improved insulation for this year, but still working on that. The plan is to be 100% solar before I die :)
Oh, I also have a 4 gallon covered pot of water on my woodstove with a copper coil in it that thermosyphons to my water heater, which sits up on one of the barrels ... that worked pretty well last year. I took the plate off the stove so the fire hits the pot directly.
My next trick is to get the heat into my slab which has PEX in it. I'm thinking fin tubing that will thermosyphon to another tank (old water heater probably) upstairs. As it gets warm enough it will pump thru my slab. This would have some sort of fluid that won't wear out my PEX I guess. Maybe a smaller tank would be in order for that job. Any helpful hints?
Any pearls of wisdom would be appreciated.
Bill west central Illinois