I have been doing a lot of reading here and want to thank those that have put so much information on the site. It has made my process of buying a wood stove a lot more simple then I thought.
I read the three article about what stove to buy and have purchased a Drolet Austral stove. It is not a fancy stove, but it seems to have good specs and should meet my needs for a great price. I plan to offset my LP heat with this as much as I can. I have a 1200sf ranch and the stove is going to be in the middle of the basement. I know that is not the best location, but I have no room to put it up stairs. I do have insulation on the outside of the basement walls so that should help some. I also have a newer furnace that has a fan only setting so it will take hot air from the basement and blow it upstairs so that will help.
I have lots of clearance so I only need single wall pipe and have a short run of about 20" up and 16" over to my internal masonry chimney with a 9x9 clay fire tile liner. The chimney, liner, and fire cement are all in great shape and had been used with a wood cook stove in the past.
Here are my questions.
I read that I should be using three screws for each connection, but the output of the stove is solid steel and does not have any holes for that so should I drill them and put in the screws? Is the answer the same regardless if I put a trimmed down 24" duravent 1624 pipe straight into the stove or first put in an a stove top adapter like a duravent adapter model # 1677. If I put the adapter in then I can attach my vertical pipe to it with the screws.
I bought an in pipe thermometer. Should I put it in the vertical section or the horizontal section of the pipe?
Any concerns or tips about using a internal 9x9 chimney that is in good shape without buying a 6" round liner?
Thanks in advance for the help.
I read the three article about what stove to buy and have purchased a Drolet Austral stove. It is not a fancy stove, but it seems to have good specs and should meet my needs for a great price. I plan to offset my LP heat with this as much as I can. I have a 1200sf ranch and the stove is going to be in the middle of the basement. I know that is not the best location, but I have no room to put it up stairs. I do have insulation on the outside of the basement walls so that should help some. I also have a newer furnace that has a fan only setting so it will take hot air from the basement and blow it upstairs so that will help.
I have lots of clearance so I only need single wall pipe and have a short run of about 20" up and 16" over to my internal masonry chimney with a 9x9 clay fire tile liner. The chimney, liner, and fire cement are all in great shape and had been used with a wood cook stove in the past.
Here are my questions.
I read that I should be using three screws for each connection, but the output of the stove is solid steel and does not have any holes for that so should I drill them and put in the screws? Is the answer the same regardless if I put a trimmed down 24" duravent 1624 pipe straight into the stove or first put in an a stove top adapter like a duravent adapter model # 1677. If I put the adapter in then I can attach my vertical pipe to it with the screws.
I bought an in pipe thermometer. Should I put it in the vertical section or the horizontal section of the pipe?
Any concerns or tips about using a internal 9x9 chimney that is in good shape without buying a 6" round liner?
Thanks in advance for the help.