Good Afternoon all,
I am new hear as a member but have been using the site for a month or two for information. I am currently in the process of building our first home from the ground up in Lewisburg TN, My family and I recently freed ourselves from California. In our new home we will be installing a new wood burning stove. This is my first wood burning stove in a home. We have already purchased a MF Nova 2. My wife loved the large glass window and stove design. I wish I would have done more research before purchasing. Below is all my design information, I appreciate any help input and so on. I have looked at manufactures specs and also reached out to them direct but information from them is still very limited. I also reached out to a few local fire place professionals but I have found if I did not purchase the stove from them they will not work with me. The only company that would come out and possibly work with me turned me down once they found out I was installing in an alcove. That being said I will be doing install and build myself. I understand alcove is not the best design for functional heating of the house as this will just be supplemental heat.
My alcove is currently framed in wood and is oversized. I plan on framing that final alcove in steel stud and finishing the inside with fire brick or stone. My wood clearances are 28" to the left of the stove and 28" to the right of the stove. 13" to the rear of the stove. 63" from top of stove to wood ceiling. My alcove is 42" deep. I plan on framing with steel stud inside this wood alcove keeping a 1" gap between steel stud framing and wood. The steel stud framing will reduce the clearances to the following. 16" to the left, 16" to the right, 9.5" to the rear and 26" to the top. The Front of the stove will be even with the front of framing so entire stove will be inside alcove. I plan to attach durarock on the inside of the steel studs and then insulate the steel studs with rock wool. From stove to steel stud ceiling I plan on using about 24" of stove pipe then with a round ceiling support then transitioning to 6" Duravent duratech all fuel stainless inner galvalume outer chimney pipe. I will have about 24' feet total of chimney and stove pipe from top of stove to exit of roof. I will have 3 fire stops in the run and the chimney pipe is in a wood framed 24"x24" chase so I will have plenty of clearance from outside of chimney pipe to wood combustibles. In the manual from MF they do not have any information about alcoves. when I reached out to MF asking them they will only give me measurements to combustibles.
Also this stove is terrible for smoke roll out and I was thinking of some kind of exhaust fan installed in alcove ceiling to turn on when loading this stove? Also to help some heat escape the alcove I wanted to do some venting in the ceiling of the alcove to the sides of the alcove to allow some of the heat to radiate out more. I stumbled across someone doing the venting on here but can no longer find that thread. Looking for any and all productive input.
Here is a drawing for reference
I am new hear as a member but have been using the site for a month or two for information. I am currently in the process of building our first home from the ground up in Lewisburg TN, My family and I recently freed ourselves from California. In our new home we will be installing a new wood burning stove. This is my first wood burning stove in a home. We have already purchased a MF Nova 2. My wife loved the large glass window and stove design. I wish I would have done more research before purchasing. Below is all my design information, I appreciate any help input and so on. I have looked at manufactures specs and also reached out to them direct but information from them is still very limited. I also reached out to a few local fire place professionals but I have found if I did not purchase the stove from them they will not work with me. The only company that would come out and possibly work with me turned me down once they found out I was installing in an alcove. That being said I will be doing install and build myself. I understand alcove is not the best design for functional heating of the house as this will just be supplemental heat.
My alcove is currently framed in wood and is oversized. I plan on framing that final alcove in steel stud and finishing the inside with fire brick or stone. My wood clearances are 28" to the left of the stove and 28" to the right of the stove. 13" to the rear of the stove. 63" from top of stove to wood ceiling. My alcove is 42" deep. I plan on framing with steel stud inside this wood alcove keeping a 1" gap between steel stud framing and wood. The steel stud framing will reduce the clearances to the following. 16" to the left, 16" to the right, 9.5" to the rear and 26" to the top. The Front of the stove will be even with the front of framing so entire stove will be inside alcove. I plan to attach durarock on the inside of the steel studs and then insulate the steel studs with rock wool. From stove to steel stud ceiling I plan on using about 24" of stove pipe then with a round ceiling support then transitioning to 6" Duravent duratech all fuel stainless inner galvalume outer chimney pipe. I will have about 24' feet total of chimney and stove pipe from top of stove to exit of roof. I will have 3 fire stops in the run and the chimney pipe is in a wood framed 24"x24" chase so I will have plenty of clearance from outside of chimney pipe to wood combustibles. In the manual from MF they do not have any information about alcoves. when I reached out to MF asking them they will only give me measurements to combustibles.
Also this stove is terrible for smoke roll out and I was thinking of some kind of exhaust fan installed in alcove ceiling to turn on when loading this stove? Also to help some heat escape the alcove I wanted to do some venting in the ceiling of the alcove to the sides of the alcove to allow some of the heat to radiate out more. I stumbled across someone doing the venting on here but can no longer find that thread. Looking for any and all productive input.
Here is a drawing for reference
