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I am “Mr. Dickinson” so to speak and we also own Sig Marine now. It is true that the stove needs makeup air and that the burner of the Sig Marine 250 and the Dickinson Pacific share the burner design. As for the makeup air, the draft will be imperceptable by the occupants. The stove can be pretty generous with its heat production and will ore than “make up” for the makeup air.

We have not officially got a green light with the bio-diesel despite having a number of customers indicate that it is not a problem for them. My tests show that straight bio will not be sufficient to start it or to create a stable burn but that after the pipe and stove are up to temp, the bio-D will vapourise and burn.

Contact us through BARK if you have a question on the subject (email pls).

You’re right that the stove will need oxygen. However it is possible to set up a duct system to keep from having to open up windows.

Provided you do get everything to work, it’s a great setup. A single stove can provide a cook surface, oven, heat, and hot water, all without any electricity, and will run nearly silently. If you go with biodiesel, there’s no bad exhaust — just a faint hint of french fries in the air, and there will be no oil smell in the building or stove. That’s expecially nice when it comes time to clean the burner.

My next stove will likely be a Dickinson Beaufort, which will serve as a backup heat, hot water, and cooking system in our primary house. I love the Sigmar, but will want the extra size provided by the Dickinson.

Then of course there is still the issue that you would need to meet code+zoning with this puppy, hence some sitework and crafty explanation, even if only sonotubes and a white lie that it is in fact ‘just a construction trailer’. I am also skeptical about all season use, there has got to be a lot of thermal bridging in all that steel, even if the canvas is insulated. BTW – where are all the mechanicals located? Is there a floorplan somewhere?

What’s with all these recent designs whose major feature seems to be tens of square yards of floor-to-ceiling glass?! Is this a case of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” about the zero-privacy society being foisted upon us with ubiquitous video cameras and illegal broad-spectrum wiretapping?

What next, put the toilet on the porch? “Howdy neighbor, how’z it goin?” “Oh pretty good, I was constipated yesterday but everything’s coming out OK today!” “Good to hear it. Oh P.U., you sure are right about that, har-har, I can smell it from here!” “Heh, yeah, isn’t life grand?!”

No-freakin’-thanks! I’ll have my windows for looking *out*, not for being looked *in upon.* Regular windows, to let light in without zapping a room in ultraviolet and exposing every detail of one’s life to passers-by. Windows small enough to make lower-probability targets for kids’ errant baseballs and odd bits blown by wind. Windows that open to let a breeze through the screen without letting clouds of evening biting-bugs into the house to wreak havoc upon the sleeping hours.

If people want to live in mostly-glass cubicles reminiscent of nothing so much as the glass apartments of Eugene Zamyatin’s novel _WE_ (the predecessor to Orwell’s _1984_), I suppose that’s their right. But it’s my right to tell them they’re nuts.