Dumb question of the day, (well I've asked it so I guess it is no longer a dumb question)

Ro3bert said:

While I have no intention of putting a pellet stove in a bedroom (not interested in the outlay) does anyone have one there? I know there is a “safety†problem with that installation but then how about a fireplace in the bedroom (and don’t tell me there aren’t any or they are not being used). With all the smoke and CO detectors laying around loose I can’t see any reason not to put a pellet stove in a bedroom.

I’m now standing behind a large boiler plate with depleted uranium attached because I know this will, potentially, whip up a firestorm not to mention a few shoulder launched missels.

Now, on with the show.

Actually I am about half serious.

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Some bedrooms are bigger than others ;-)

<<Flak jacket on

I'm with you.

I have had a wood stove in the garage for years, but apparently it would be terrible and border-line Armageddon if I replaced it with a pellet stove, especially if I ran that terrible 250*F exhaust through the smoke pipe that is currently taking 500*F plus....

you can do whatever you like if you dont take out a permit. There is generally a reason for these draconic codes and laws.......of course, if you have a stove, dont take out a permit and your place catches fire, you can try to argue with the insurance company as to why they wont pay you for the damage.......good luck on that one......or, replace someones' life......but hey, you know better

You can do it if the manufacturer says its ok as well as your local code enforcer. Only you and my wife would ask a question like that if they had no intention of acting based on the response. You should install one now just to make me feel better.

So what did the Indians do in their teepee's when they had a fire in side going all night???? Don't think smoke detectors where use in that time. They seem to survive OK.

It's only a safety issue if it burns the house down or kills someone. Otherwise it's a great idea.

I have a woodstove theoretically in my bedroom. I have cathedral ceilings and an open floorplan, and the stove sits down beow. Very comfortable sleeping, until 5am when the fire burns down.

burnpot said:

So what did the Indians do in their teepee's when they had a fire in side going all night???? Don't think smoke detectors where use in that time. They seem to survive OK.

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I'm sure that some of them managed to get burned from time to time.

SmokeyTheBear said:

burnpot said:

So what did the Indians do in their teepee's when they had a fire in side going all night???? Don't think smoke detectors where use in that time. They seem to survive OK.

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I'm sure that some of them managed to get burned from time to time.

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Just because you see some aligators swimming around doesn't mean their mortality rate was low. Same thing may be true of Indians. This is one of those unknowables, unless you can tap into some Indian folklore. It's not like you can go onto Wikipedia and find out that Indians helped invent the smoke detector because their teepees were burning down. Or can you?

burnpot said:

So what did the Indians do in their teepee's when they had a fire in side going all night???? Don't think smoke detectors where use in that time. They seem to survive OK.

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wow.....go figure......Indians had pellet stoves in their garages and/or bedrooms?

How come it's not against code to sleep on the couch in the living room??????????? Or is it????????? OMG!
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DON'T SLEEP ON THE COUCH

hossthehermit said:

How come it's not against code to sleep on the couch in the living room??????????? Or is it????????? OMG!
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DON'T SLEEP ON THE COUCH

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x2 and on top of that my living room is smaller than my bedroom.

You can't have a heater (by code) in the bedroom? Since when?
What about one of the window mount pellet heaters by US Stove Co?

By the same thinking process, dont get caught sleeping in the family room.

Many older homes have fireplaces in the bedrooms.

I really see ZERO reason that it would be any less safe than any other installation, so long as its done right.

The biggy is of course not having combustibles anywhere near the stove.


Our family room pellet stove is right outside the bedroom door so ????????

If the stove sets the house on fire, I guess the thinking is that you will have time to get out as compared to the bedroom burning and you would not wake up ????????

Lots of regulations were dreamed up by idiots.

I looked online and found many references to bedroom stoves and fireplaces.

The big thing I found was the reference to "appliance may not obtain combustion air from the room"

Some other references were made to a limit to the BTU rating as compared to the size of the room in cubic feet.

Snowy

Snowy Rivers said:

I really see ZERO reason that it would be any less safe than any other installation, so long as its done right.

The biggy is of course not having combustibles anywhere near the stove.

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I agree. I have no concern about my stove, other than what is placed near and if anything live comes out the front when I am tending it.(woodstove).

The biggy is the insurance company. I would would make sure that whatever you do passes local code, otherwise, if there is an issue, the insurance would be void.

As mentioned, local codes can very a lot.

I would imagine that the size of the stove will be somewhat limited and the air supply for combustion will have to be from the outside.

If a bedroom door were to be closed and the room was fairly tight, the oxygen levels could be lowered enough to be a problem.


Just some thoughts.

Snowy

So, the pellet stove obtaining the combustion air from outside (OAK per manufacturer) would be a plus for a bedroom install?

nosaudioil said:

So, the pellet stove obtaining the combustion air from outside (OAK per manufacturer) would be a plus for a bedroom install?

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Based on the good advice by Snowy Rivers...yes.

Now that we've all hashed it over and agreed that bedroom installs are fine, bottom line is STILL manufacturer requirements, local codes, AND YOUR FRIENDLY, REASONABLE, "GEE I WANNA HELP YOU" insurance adjuster. It's your decision, everybody wants to be able to say, "Well, so an so said it was all right." Called plausible deniability, and we all learned it from our esteemed rulers. C'mon people, when are we gonna take back our lives????????

darn tootin', up against the wall!
And Merry Christmas too!