I posted earlier about my plans for installing a woodstove in a small, uninsulated cement block cottage in a (relatively) mild climate (similar to coastal Northern California) here: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/58741/
Everyone's advice and comments were helpful in narrowing down the right size stove to look at. I'm planning on getting a Jotul F3CB (assuming they are available over in Europe, which I think they are).
This will be an interior metal chimney. I know that the metal chimney needs to be the insulated "HT/Class A" type.
Next thing I'm looking at is the stove pipe. After reading information on this site and a few other sources, it seems to me that double-wall stove pipe is the way to go: a little more expensive, but it will keep the temps higher and reduce the creosote in the stove pipe and chimney.
But I just wanted to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. Is there any reason to consider using single-wall stove pipe instead? As I understand it, besides the lower cost, single wall stove pipe would put more heat into the room. That sounds great, but I wouldn't want to do that if it was going to reduce the performance of my chimney. The winter climate is not very cold (mid 30s to low 40s most nights, rarely going below freezing) but there are prevailing westerly/northerwesterly winds blowing off the coast that I suspect will be the biggest challenge my chimney will need to overcome. Given those winds, it seems to me that keeping the chimney temps higher with double-wall stove pipe will be more important than trying to get more heat out of the stove using single wall stove pipe.
What do you guys think? Am I right to error on the side of caution and go with the double-wall stove pipe?
Everyone's advice and comments were helpful in narrowing down the right size stove to look at. I'm planning on getting a Jotul F3CB (assuming they are available over in Europe, which I think they are).
This will be an interior metal chimney. I know that the metal chimney needs to be the insulated "HT/Class A" type.
Next thing I'm looking at is the stove pipe. After reading information on this site and a few other sources, it seems to me that double-wall stove pipe is the way to go: a little more expensive, but it will keep the temps higher and reduce the creosote in the stove pipe and chimney.
But I just wanted to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. Is there any reason to consider using single-wall stove pipe instead? As I understand it, besides the lower cost, single wall stove pipe would put more heat into the room. That sounds great, but I wouldn't want to do that if it was going to reduce the performance of my chimney. The winter climate is not very cold (mid 30s to low 40s most nights, rarely going below freezing) but there are prevailing westerly/northerwesterly winds blowing off the coast that I suspect will be the biggest challenge my chimney will need to overcome. Given those winds, it seems to me that keeping the chimney temps higher with double-wall stove pipe will be more important than trying to get more heat out of the stove using single wall stove pipe.
What do you guys think? Am I right to error on the side of caution and go with the double-wall stove pipe?