I have posted a couple of times in the past asking about chimney, hearth, etc.
I finally was able to use the combination of time available, some warm weather, and a friends help installing the chimney. My original post is here; https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/27814/. I fired it up this afternoon and all sems to be well. Draft does not seem to be an issue at all. Time will tell with colder weather. The secondary burn is amazing, I have not been able to cause smoke to come out of the chimney. Between the close CTC specs for the stove and the heat shield I came up with for the wall and ceiling, I don't think I will have to worry about excessive heat build-up. I bought an indoor/outdoor thermometer with a wired sensor for the outdoor temp and mounted it between the Durock and floor joist closest to the horizontal run of single wall pipe. It hasn't gotten over 82F yet. It will go to 156 so I will worry if the temps go over 100+. What do you folks think? I still have to tape and texture the exposed drywall and Durock.
Thanks for all the good infor on this site!
New questions:
I have two Condar magnetic thermometers. I put one about 18" up from the stove on the single wall pipe(Heat-Fab) and one right in front of the flue collar. The highest temps so far are about 375F on the pipe and 325 on the stove top. Usually I'm crusing around 250-275 on the pipe and 250-300 on the stove top. Does this sound right? I don't see and reason to have a raging fire all the time just to keep flue temps up. The is no visible smoke when it is just crusing, only when it is dying down or just loaded.
I remember reading about some people experiencing embers falling out when opening the door and I have this as well. It seems the huge door and viewing area comes with the price of having to monitor and poke the logs coals to keep stuff from falling against the glass. I'm developing strategies and techniques to manage this.
I didn't especially load it up before going to bed last night at 9:30, got it going then damped it down to 1/4 open on the damper lever. Woke up at 6:30 to no visible coals, 18F outside, 66F inside, stove top and upper part of the concrete wall still warm to the touch. That's great by my standards!
Thanks again for all the good info here!
I finally was able to use the combination of time available, some warm weather, and a friends help installing the chimney. My original post is here; https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/27814/. I fired it up this afternoon and all sems to be well. Draft does not seem to be an issue at all. Time will tell with colder weather. The secondary burn is amazing, I have not been able to cause smoke to come out of the chimney. Between the close CTC specs for the stove and the heat shield I came up with for the wall and ceiling, I don't think I will have to worry about excessive heat build-up. I bought an indoor/outdoor thermometer with a wired sensor for the outdoor temp and mounted it between the Durock and floor joist closest to the horizontal run of single wall pipe. It hasn't gotten over 82F yet. It will go to 156 so I will worry if the temps go over 100+. What do you folks think? I still have to tape and texture the exposed drywall and Durock.
Thanks for all the good infor on this site!
New questions:
I have two Condar magnetic thermometers. I put one about 18" up from the stove on the single wall pipe(Heat-Fab) and one right in front of the flue collar. The highest temps so far are about 375F on the pipe and 325 on the stove top. Usually I'm crusing around 250-275 on the pipe and 250-300 on the stove top. Does this sound right? I don't see and reason to have a raging fire all the time just to keep flue temps up. The is no visible smoke when it is just crusing, only when it is dying down or just loaded.
I remember reading about some people experiencing embers falling out when opening the door and I have this as well. It seems the huge door and viewing area comes with the price of having to monitor and poke the logs coals to keep stuff from falling against the glass. I'm developing strategies and techniques to manage this.
I didn't especially load it up before going to bed last night at 9:30, got it going then damped it down to 1/4 open on the damper lever. Woke up at 6:30 to no visible coals, 18F outside, 66F inside, stove top and upper part of the concrete wall still warm to the touch. That's great by my standards!
Thanks again for all the good info here!
