Who makes the largest wood burning stoves?
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Comments (10)Thanks to everyone for your comments. The wood is seasoned. It was cut a year ago, split and stacked last spring. Mostly oak and locust. The stove is a 1979 Resolute. 6" was standard with it. I have an outside chimney, made with concrete 'donut' sections and tile inserts. The original tile lining looks like it was 6x8. The stove dealer dropped a 6" SS flexible liner a little farther than where the flue enters the chimney (about 10' off the ground outside). There is about 6" more beyond that T junction and the liner is open on the bottom end. I have a cleanout at the base of the chimney and I can run about 40' of brush up to the top to clean it. Lately I have been choking down the primary air and leaving the damper open. This keeps the pipes clean, but man I'm going through the wood. Doing this, the temp of the flue about 2.5 feet above the stove varies 350-500. Even if I get a good bed of hot coals and then shut the damper, that temp drops to 250. Lord knows how low it is when the flue enters the chimney. All in all, I suspect a lot of the issue is insulation on the liner. BTW, I thought I might have had an ash build up that was blocking the secondary air ports and used a shop vac to blow air into the primary and secondary air intakes. Didn't help....See MoreDover Sunburst Wood Burning Stove Baffle
Comments (1)Your stove sounds like a pre EPA unit. If it is, I strongly recommend you toss the stove and get a safer one. They are much more efficient and a whole lot cleaner burning. If the parts are warping and falling out your stove has lived a full life and it's time to retire it....See MoreThanksgiving on a wood burning stove
Comments (4)A childhood friend was taken as a bride to Manitoba where her DH started a dude ranch. She cooked three meals a day on a wood stove for a dozen hired help and however many guests. The foreman rigged a pulley line to string above the stove to dry her baby's diapers. It wasn't the work that did her in; it was the winters -- and provisions that consisted heavily of alcohol. The second spring, as soon as the mud dried, she walked to a main road and hitched a ride for herself and her boy -- back to civilization....See MoreAnyone have a wood burning stove?
Comments (11)Naomi, Just to be clear, the heat shields on the stove and pipes are metal and purchased from the manufacturer. I would say they stand about 1 3/4" to 2" away from the back of the metal parts of the stove. The heat shield on the wall behind the stove is cement board. It is held about 1 1/2" off the wall by long screws that go through those porcelain electric fence post insulators between the back of the board and the wall. The insulators are there so the screws can be snugged up and not bend the cement board which always seems fairly fragile even though I've been using it for more than two decades, with plenty of chances to accidentally break it. When we first designed this set-up we didn't plan on using the insulators, but had trouble getting the board to stand off properly and we came up with the idea of using them . They did the trick, and have the advantage of being cheap and readily accessible. Along the base the bottom edge of the heat shield is supported by 3 or 4 angle brackets. The stove heat shields buy you some reduced clearances and the additional heat shield on the combustible wall buys you some more. But the back of our stove is still probably 20 or 21" away from the vertical plane of the heat shield on the wall. Our installation does not look like a fireplace with stove insert. It looks like a big stove sticking out into the room. And as such is actually quite historically-accurate as big old coal and wood stoves were parked right out there in the room. (I have pictures of my house interiors c 1875 and the these ornate behemoths were standing proudly in most of the rooms. The really shocking part is how long the horizontal runs of stove pipe ran before they entered the chimney. Some of mine were 15 feet or more. It's astounding any of these houses survived.) But the stove standing the middle of the room reality flies in the face of the modern colonial-esque aesthetic with wood-burning appliances tucked discretely into former fireplaces, surrounded by lovely paneling and mantles. And yes, our wall heat shield is painted with ordinary latex paint. I have repainted it a couple of times when we moved or changed decorating schemes. The screws are countersunk into the cement board, but because it is not very thick there is a limit on how concealed they can be. Around the hole where the chimney pipe goes into the chimney we have cut the cement board back and covered the the area with one of those round panels. The hold up on the tiling is that it would be fairly permanent and you would have to destroy it to take down the cement board because the screw holes would be concealed by the tiles. I have never worked out a solution to this although I'm sure there is one. It is also a place that is hard to clean behind. I finally settled on using one of those wands intended for cleaning under a refrigerator. Are you thinking of having a mantle and surrounding supports? I have some rudimentary ideas about that, though haven't worked out all the details, yet. Molly~...See Morerob_757
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