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I've burned wood at my camp since I was a little kid, but now that I'm going to be burning in my house for some reason I'm a bit nervous. I decided to go with a Drolet wood stove in my finished basement. I'm an HVAC tech and decided to make my basement my central return to my house since this is where my heat build up is going to be. I will be leaving my fan on the 'on' position to my heat pump to circulate heat throughout the house. At this point I am satisfied and very happy. Here is my concern, I followed the min. distance from the corner, top, back, etc. from the stove. Now I understand that the stove will get around 500-600 degrees from what they tell me. I am using double wall stove pipe, simply because of peace of mind issues, behind the stove we used fire board and put up stove veneer, and tiled under the stove and kept the carpet a reasonable distance away from the stove. Now our stone veneer does not cover a large portion of the wall behind the stove, maybe 4-5 feet, but the stoves corner is 14" away from the drywall which it requires 12". Does anyone see any issues with this set up yet?
I love cutting, splitting and stacking wood, and split the wood I plan to burn in February, most of it (90%) was cut into 18" and sat around for about 2-3 years before I split it, did not take a moisture reading on it quite yet, its been in the sun and gets good wind when there is wind. I only plan to start burning around early to mid. December, so I can give the wood a few more months to 'season'.
Another question is the chimney is 8" but the stove 'recommends' a 6" chimney, how much will this effect the efficiency and function of the stove?
Anyone see any reasons for me to feel 'unsafe'? I guess till I start actually burning I will feel this way.
Thank you very much!
I've burned wood at my camp since I was a little kid, but now that I'm going to be burning in my house for some reason I'm a bit nervous. I decided to go with a Drolet wood stove in my finished basement. I'm an HVAC tech and decided to make my basement my central return to my house since this is where my heat build up is going to be. I will be leaving my fan on the 'on' position to my heat pump to circulate heat throughout the house. At this point I am satisfied and very happy. Here is my concern, I followed the min. distance from the corner, top, back, etc. from the stove. Now I understand that the stove will get around 500-600 degrees from what they tell me. I am using double wall stove pipe, simply because of peace of mind issues, behind the stove we used fire board and put up stove veneer, and tiled under the stove and kept the carpet a reasonable distance away from the stove. Now our stone veneer does not cover a large portion of the wall behind the stove, maybe 4-5 feet, but the stoves corner is 14" away from the drywall which it requires 12". Does anyone see any issues with this set up yet?
I love cutting, splitting and stacking wood, and split the wood I plan to burn in February, most of it (90%) was cut into 18" and sat around for about 2-3 years before I split it, did not take a moisture reading on it quite yet, its been in the sun and gets good wind when there is wind. I only plan to start burning around early to mid. December, so I can give the wood a few more months to 'season'.
Another question is the chimney is 8" but the stove 'recommends' a 6" chimney, how much will this effect the efficiency and function of the stove?
Anyone see any reasons for me to feel 'unsafe'? I guess till I start actually burning I will feel this way.
Thank you very much!