Hoping to install Baby bear tomorrow! Need some advice.

Hey Folks,

I'm new to the place. I've been doing my homework on a wood stove for some time. Last year I built a 700 square foot detached garage. I had trenched in a gas line and was planning to use a 80,000 btu furnace I have to heat it with. At the beginning of the winter I was laid off, like many, and it slowed down the pouring of cash into this project. I picked up a new job working for John Deere a few months ago and am trying to get this going again.

I cringe when gas bill arrives already so I decided to start looking for a woodburner. I found a nice Fisher baby bear on Craigslist and picked it up last week. Since then, I invested in 8' of single wall ,2 sections of 36"insulated supervent, an 90 to replace the one on the stove, a supervent cap and some pipe cement. Tonight I was looking at where I wanted to put the stove and I have a couple of Q's.

1. How can I run this stove closer to the wall? I was thinking of putting a course of cinder blocks between the stove and the wall. The 36" to OSB will eat up allot of floor space.

2. How low do I need to run the supervent chimney below my open trusses with it converting from single wall pipe? I could set the chimney in the middle of the 24" on center trusses [ no celing yet] to gain max clearance. I'm going to fab my pipe support from steel and strap.

3. The deeper I get into this pipe, it seems more reasonabe to just build a masontry chimney. I'm into about $225 now and as a footnote, I have 2 pallets of old foundry brick from a building that was torn down locally.

What do you think?
Couper

Ok, It all sounds like good things to concider. First of all, I need to find a manuel for an old style bb bear. Has anyone seen one online or otherwise. BTW, I'm very glad you told me about the possability of a no-no install. I don't want to piss off a good building inspector.

Thanks,
Couper

Today I had conversations with the building inspector and Farm Bureau Insurance. I needed the new pole building added to my policy anyway. I don't need a permit of any sort to put a wood stove in my shop or home at all. He did give me a copy of the code for installation for free anyway. Just a note here, you should not use 26 for the heat shield as I have seen advised somewhere before??? The thickness is 24 {.024} with a 1"air gap.

To add the new building, $100,000 contents and riders for wood stoves in both buildings will be an additional $150.00 a year! They want to take pictures after the installs for the policy.

So now I think I'll get some heat out in the building and start working on finishing the interior and building a hearth for the living room.

Thanks for the advice so far, the short delay caused me to notice Menards put their chimney pipe on a good sale this weekend! That should save me at least $100.00.

Thanks,
Couper