Just picked up this beauty and need suggestions

[Dustin M]

I just bought this wood stove from a old friend and want to restore it, get the rust off and either paint or polish, which would be best?
I've seen the restored and painted with the pine trees painted gold I really liked that.

Also I am going to hook it into by duct work .
I plan on running a 8" run straight into the supply duct.
The stove has a blower on the bottom that just plugs into an outlet to cut on and off, there is a hole drilled into the back of the stove for a t stat.

Which is best, to wire a t stat to control the stove blower or to jump the stat to run my HEATPUMP blower?


Thank you.

 

[Dustin M]

Here

 

[Ashful]

One of the mods may move this to the classic stove forum for you, where you'll get a better response.

 

[Dustin M]

Thank you

 

[bholler]

First question is what chimney is it going to be plugged into? Next you would need to use the heatpump blower the stove blower will not have enough power to do what you want and you would be better off to tie into the return line so air would be sucked into the ducts if you tie into the distribution liner air would be blown out over the stove. you will also need to make a hood over top of the stove to collect the heat. Another thing is you need to check local codes to see if you can tie it into your central heat you may need to install a fire damper.

 

[Dustin M]

Ok makes sense to hook it into the return, chimney is right behind it here

 

[bholler]

Is it lined and if so has it been inspected for safety?

 

[Dustin M]

Yes it's a lined chimney and it has been checked.
Aside from that I found the way I'm going to do it I'll show pics later as I'm about to start here's a picture after I've spent a few hours sanding it and then used stove polish

 

[jeff_t]

Have you checked with your insurance company about this? Is the stove listed?

Ducting a wood furnace has different requirements from normal hvac. Clearances are greater, and I'm pretty sure you shouldn't use that insulated flex duct. Mostly because if you have a good rippin' fire going and the power goes out, you have no blower to keep air moving. Things can get too hot pretty fast.

 

[begreen]

That is exactly right. This should be connected with metal, not plastic jacketed flex duct.

 

[Dustin M]

It is connected with metal

 

[Dustin M]

I read some insurance requirments such as 18" away from floor joists and 36" away from anything combustible and some others everything as far as that goes meets that.

 

[begreen]

That looks like it is connected to the return duct, not the supply. And it is tied to a potentially flammable product. Also, the single wall exhaust pipe appears to be closer than 18" to the flex return. This looks like a problem waiting to happen.

FWIW, I would not be using flex duct at all on the return trunk line or plenum.

 

[Dustin M]

Well ok then thanks for your help​

 

[begreen]

Is the supply trunk line directly above the stove? Is that rigid metal ducting? If so, that should be a better place to tap into.

 

[Dustin M]

Is the supply trunk line directly above the stove? Is that rigid metal ducting? If so, that should be a better place to tap into.

Yes it is directly above and it's metal with duct wrap.
So you think it'd be better to hook straight into the supply and use the wood stoves blower?

Instead of better connecting to the return and use the heatpump blower ?

 

[Dustin M]

I don't think that little blower will supply the whole house.
But the majority of where we stay is on the half where my wood stove is..

 

[begreen]

Yes, the supply system is a better place to hook up and safer. Think about what happens with this setup in a power outage. Use the stove blower. Ideally there would be a back draft damper in the supply trunk duct between the connection and the main plenum.

 

[Dustin M]

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Yes, the supply system is a better place to hook up and safer. Think about what happens with this setup in a power outage. Use the stove blower. Ideally there would be a back draft damper in the supply trunk duct between the connection and the main plenum.

i have a manual damper the way it is now.
Ok I'll re arrange it prob later and then post it and we'll go from there.

 

[Dustin M]

Checked it and the blower has enough cfm to supply good air flow to almost every register esp our bedroom and living room. I am very pleased

 

[Enzo's Dad]

Is that tape on your seams of that pipe?

 

[Dustin M]

Completely done, flue pipe took forever to get hooked those 24 GA pipes can be frustrating, now I just need a cold day to test the heat .

 

[Dustin M]

Is that tape on your seams of that pipe?

Yes it's metal tape on the supply duct

 

[bobdog2o02]

I hope you have functioning smoke detectors.

 

[Dustin M]

I don't understand why a man can't heat his home with a wood stove the way I have set it up, it was meant to be set up in a manner this way . My way has certainly been used fir many years. .

And yes I have CO detectors.