Seeking Installation Advice (With Pics)

My woodstoves are in my office, and I have drop ceilings in every room with a drywalled ceiling above the drop ceiling tiles. I think the gap is about 2 feet between the ceiling tiles and the actual ceiling. I can take pics of that with a tile moved if that is helpful.



Here's a pic of how I have the first Heritage in my lobby that lacks a drop ceiling. This is a standard ceiling support box.



Here's the conference room where I will be installing the 2nd Heritage. I plan on taking this chair home, cutting out a large section of carpet exposing the concrete slab underneath, and tiling over that slab. My hearth will be a corner section 6 feet X 6 feet. I might angle the front 45 degrees to each side so it's not a perfect square.



Here's the drop ceiling I will have to work around. Above this is a drywalled ceiling the same as picture #1. I can move a tile if that helps. I am planning on buying the longest ceiling support box and mounting it in the center of the tile immediately to the right of the can light. The duct work is flexible and is not in the way when I lift the tile. I was thinking of scoring the tile and making it fit around the ceiling support box. Are there any issues with this plan?

There is only a few feet of attic space above the dry wall ceiling. This 2nd stove will be installed a few feet from the outside wall on my building so I don't expect much chimney height...Maybe 16 feet the whole run if that.




In the last pic, you see the front of my building. Stove 1 is centrally located in the middle of the building about 20 feet in from the front door. That chimney above the roof is 24 feet tall. Stove number 2 will be on the left side of the building the same distance from the front of the building. As the roof is fairly steep, the chimney run will not be anywhere near 24 feet. I'm hoping not to need roof support brackets, but I'll let Bruce at Woodheat Stoves advise me on that. He was a valuable resource on getting the right chimney for stove #1.

I guess I am looking for words of wisdom or advice. It's not too late to cancel the project and unload stove #2. I have $1865 into stove #2 with the shipping expense. I could sell it for near that I would think or just hold onto it for future use if this project is going to be difficult with the drop ceiling. I don't want to create further expenses undoing any damage I've done to the building if I have to abandon the project once I started. I think I'll probably have the installer work on the ceiling before we cut the carpet out just in case. I have extra ceiling tiles if we screw up.

Here is stove #1. You can see the ceiling support box...planning on doing the same thing with number 2.


Here's stove #2. No reason for this picture, but I took it and felt I might as well add it to a very long post.



Last pic...sorry for so many, but this might be helpful...or not.

Stove #2 will go where the dark brown chair sits currently.

begreen said:

Looks like a small room for a whole stove. How many sq ft? Will this be the sauna?

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Begreen...Here's more pics of the room. There is another office that has a pocket door between the 2 spaces. I'm hoping some of the heat from the conference room will dissipate into that room which is the coolest space in the building now other than the conference room. The lobby and the office I sit in are 10 or more degrees warmer on average.

That pocket door open should allow hot air to vent into that room. A fan to move cold air from that room to the conference room would help if the air won't flow naturally.



To the right of the little mirror on the wall in pic #2 off in the distance is an open stairwell to a storage space above. I'm hoping heat will be drawn from this room up the stair well and heat that space also. I imagine stove #2 will only be burned full time in weather colder than 30 degrees. Other than that....shorter fires will probably suffice for stove #2.

BrowningBAR said:

It's kind of weird seeing my stove there. Good luck on the install. I pictured your office space completely different that what you just posted. I figured it was more like a large open loft space.

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She found a good home....

begreen said:

Where is the hearth for the installed stove? What is the floor surface covering? Is this painted cement or linoleum?

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that is ceramic tile covering slab concrete

under that carpet is the same concrete

begreen said:

Sounds like you have a plan. I can't see anything new from the posting when you were contemplating getting the second stove. Times a wasting.

How do you keep the place neat when feeding the stoves a couple times during business hours and where do you keep the wood supply?

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I mop that entry way everytime I clean the stove and vacuum as well periodically. Tile floor and a string mop make clean-up easy. Here's my storage on the side of the bldg.



You think a Heritage is too much for that one half of the building?

begreen said:

There's no reason to run the 2nd stove 24/7 if the extra heat is not needed. Just light it up in the colder weather when you need the extra warmth.

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I agree. When it's 15 degrees and the wind is blowing, one Heritage is not enough for 1545 sq feet. Especially when there's another 600 feet upstairs drawing heat away. If I had a longer burn time with say a Mansfield or an Englander 30, I could get away with one stove. But I like the Hearthstones and don't see many Mansfields in the used market. An Equinox would be overkill for the room I sit in as that room would roast and I still wouldn't get heat evenly into the conference room.

I appreciate your knowledge and you responding to my posts.