I was searching this board for any and all references to the Jotul F100 stove (we just started using one, our first wood stove) and I stumbled across a thread started by "Yarzy" on January 1, 2011 titled "The Jotul has arrived..."
Inside the thread was a reply from "masonman" in which he had a picture of his Jotul Oslo sitting on cinderblocks, one block under the two legs on one side and one block under the two legs on the other. He said that he had been using his Oslo for two seasons so I guess those blocks have obviously held up under the weight of the stove.
Reading past his post on the thread I expected somebody to remark about the use of the cinderblocks to raise the stove (either positively or negatively) but to my surprise nobody did (and not much gets by you guys, a very astute bunch imho).
When we first got our F100 I was a little surprised at how low it sat and wanted to raise it a few inches off of the floor via masonry blocks of some kind.
I ended up being too afraid to use cinderblocks (didn't think they were strong enough being non-solid, the two big holes and all) and couldn't find any other kind of solid masonry block that I thought was suitable so we ended up just using our stove as is. Not a big problem, I just have to get down on one knee every time I open the door to do anything.
So, what DO you guys think about the use of cinderblocks (or any kind of masonry block) to raise a stove? As Ross Perot once famously said "I'm all ears."
Inside the thread was a reply from "masonman" in which he had a picture of his Jotul Oslo sitting on cinderblocks, one block under the two legs on one side and one block under the two legs on the other. He said that he had been using his Oslo for two seasons so I guess those blocks have obviously held up under the weight of the stove.
Reading past his post on the thread I expected somebody to remark about the use of the cinderblocks to raise the stove (either positively or negatively) but to my surprise nobody did (and not much gets by you guys, a very astute bunch imho).
When we first got our F100 I was a little surprised at how low it sat and wanted to raise it a few inches off of the floor via masonry blocks of some kind.
I ended up being too afraid to use cinderblocks (didn't think they were strong enough being non-solid, the two big holes and all) and couldn't find any other kind of solid masonry block that I thought was suitable so we ended up just using our stove as is. Not a big problem, I just have to get down on one knee every time I open the door to do anything.
So, what DO you guys think about the use of cinderblocks (or any kind of masonry block) to raise a stove? As Ross Perot once famously said "I'm all ears."