I’m going to have to read the code on this one. If I put the wood stove in a wood framed flammable room, it’s ok? But if I put it in my masonry garage with a concrete floor, that’s where things get dangerous? Confused.
It says a garage or any space containing gasoline or other flammable vapors. So if it's a separate room from the garage area but in the same building it would be okI’m going to have to read the code on this one. If I put the wood stove in a wood framed flammable room, it’s ok? But if I put it in my masonry garage with a concrete floor, that’s where things get dangerous? Confused.
Now if it says something like a place where flammable chemicals, vehicles and/or batteries are stored, then I get it.
And if I put a sofa in the garage, does it become “finished?”
If I’m done with my renovations, it must be “finished.”
My neighbhood calls the detached garages “sheds” for some reason. There’s a wall radiator, a chimney, plumbing, and a tongue-and-groove floor on the second story. It seems pretty apparent that it was once some type of servants work or living quarters at one point in time. I’ve considered finishing the second story to make it nice, and heat would be a key part of that. The wood stove using the chimney would be on the concrete first floor, where the walls are currently all masonry. I do have one gas pressure washer I’ve been contemplating replacing with an electric one. Otherwise, I’ve got no reason for gas cans. I keep paints and chemicals in the basement of the house, but none of that takes away the possibility of someone calling it a garage. That is what it is after all, and some day I do hope to park cars in there.
I actually had it out with our township over this bit of code, many years ago. It was the "or likely to be present" bit that they stood upon. It didn't matter if I never planned to use my carriage barn as a garage. They stated that if it had overhead doors, then vehicles containing gasoline or other flammable liquids were likely to be present. Their argument was that any future owner of the house might very sensibly and very likely to park vehicles or gas cans in any space with an overhead door. Thus, overhead door = no wood stove.
Interesting. Thank you. And thanks above for the “code.” I see my town has adopted ICC 2018 for building codes, and see that this thread states that NFPA is not (necessarily) code, but well respected of course.
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I had an issue where we took out the wall between the house and the garage. Installed a new 17’ glass garage door. Now my whole house is technically a garage because I could drive a car into my new living room. It’s an amazing space but any inspector could fail any inspection now. Fortunately at the time of the only inspection I had only demoed and painted so technically no new build permits were needed and the HVAC was inspected as a straight replacement.I’m going to have to read the code on this one. If I put the wood stove in a wood framed flammable room, it’s ok? But if I put it in my masonry garage with a concrete floor, that’s where things get dangerous? Confused.
Now if it says something like a place where flammable chemicals, vehicles and/or batteries are stored, then I get it.
And if I put a sofa in the garage, does it become “finished?”
If I’m done with my renovations, it must be “finished.”
