getting rid of the stove.....
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KaptJaq
Minister of Fire
The more of the stove that is exposed to the room the better the heat transfer. Air moving freely around the stove will pick up more heat that does not get trapped in the chimney/fireplace cavity. Note that 90° angles and horizontal runs in the stove pipe reduce the draft. Move it as far as you can without adding draft reducing features.
Also watch out for your clearance to combustibles in front of the stove.
KaptJaq
KaptJaq
Minister of Fire
How much clearance do you have above the stove? Would putting a 30° angle on top of the stove and another 30° in the fireplace let you move the stove a little forward? Will you still have 18" to the edge of the hearth in front of the stove?
Fake coal burner
Feeling the Heat
Does the fire place have a clean out door on outside ? Make sure it closed and not leaking. That stove should burn you out of that room Mine was 1.5 cu ft. fire box. Old Brick home single pane windows every ware 1100 sq feet. Seasoned dry wood is the thing for these stoves. You can get a cheap oven thermometer and put on top of stove to see hot hot its running. Do a block of plate none galvanized metal. Galvanized metal gives off dangers gases around 650 to 700 deg continues heet. Fallow Begreen advice if possible can you extend the flue pipe up another few feet?
Ok after messing around with the stove for the evening it has my da#!~< patience shot. So with the stove I have barely enough clearance a 90 deg to go on directly to stove and into fireplace. This stove one was the smallest stove I could find for the sq ft I wanted to heat other than a barrel stove haha the way I had the stove I had only 15 3/4 inches to end of hearth. I messe around with it and pulled it out further just to see how it looks/clearance. With it pulled out further I don't have nearly any hearth left. No clean out door for my fireplace. Soooooooo..... With all that said when I got home from work (told wife to let it burn out) I messed with it and then I got a hair up my rear. I yanked stove and stove pipe out of fireplace. Outside temp 32 degrees freezing rain. Basement temp at time of coming home. 61 degrees. Fired the fireplace up. Basement temp 2 hrs later 74 degrees . So wow my head hurts how and the hell is this
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KaptJaq
Minister of Fire
Did you ever get the secondaries to fire in the stove? It takes a few fires and tinkering to get an EPA/airtight stove to fire correctly. As I suggested earlier, read the operations manual and experiment. I can get the room with an open fireplace up to 80 degrees but how much wood will I need and how long will it last without constant feeding. Not to mention the heat lost up the flue.
KaptJaq
KaptJaq
That's exactly right. By having an open chimney with a hear source beneath it you turned the fireplace and chimney into a giant Hoover, sucking the heat out of the place. The stove was heating alright, but it was heating outdoors.
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