Hello everyone,
Fellow upstate New Yorker been lurking a while. Got some great info on installing my new stove and proper firewood care and seasoning. I've been burning wood in a Yukon Eagle Oil/Wood stove that's in my basement for a few years. The unit was in the house when I bought it. I had bad firewood seasoning practice and had a chimney fire the first year (was kind of controlled
) I was getting the fire hot enough to burn out some of the creosote but that ended with the single wall pipe turning cherry red. Was quickly put out with a fire extinguisher but the smoke triggered the smoke alarm and the fire dept did come over. They put a fan in the door in the basement to help with the smoke and offered to clean my chimney. Joking with them I told them next time I need my chimney sweep i'll put some incense on the smoke detector! They also offered me a job to come volunteer with them. They are fairly close by only about 3-4 miles away and it turns out the chief is within a mile of my house. Really nice people.
The Yukon Husky that had the chimney fire was setup to fail. I found out later that winter when the creosote began to drip down the pipe and onto my concrete floor that the single wall pipe going through the concrete foundation attached incorrectly with the female ends going into the male ends so the black gooy stuff was all over the place. It's attached at the stove with a very quick 90, then about 2 feet of pipe to another 90 out the wall to a T clean out and then up above the roof line with double wall. (I hope that double wall is installed correctly! Not sure how it could be mixed up). My house is also only 1100 sq foot with 1100 sq foot unfinished basement and I found myself having to damper this stove down a lot due to the heat I was producing keeping the fire in the burn zone. Which could be another reason for my creosote buildup. I sometimes had windows open upstairs!
So...this year i'm installing a PE Super in the living space and am going to use the downstairs burner with the oil for supplemental heat in the side rooms of the house (nationwide i mean primary heat source ).
Here are some pictures, so far hearth is done. Still need to get the roof and chimney done, gotta figure out which way I want to attempt the roof flashing on my metal room. Local guy said to use the boot flashing. Says its the best way to do it now adays. Still going to get a few more opinions. Oh also, Nationwide Insurance didn't require anything, just that my premium go up $91 per year. No pictures, no nothing. I'm through Nationwide Direct (I just called the 800 number when I bought the house to setup insurance). My local office said I would need someone to come inspect/take pictures if I was with them at the local level. I know I saw a post about people asking questions about insurance and all. Just thought i'd point that out. Going to ask my neighbor the fire chief about an inspection etc to make sure I cover all bases. Anyways..here are the pictures of the hearth, will update with more as the install progresses. I think it came out pretty good considering I've never made one before and my first attempt at tile/grout. Thanks for looking and glad to be apart of the hearth community.
Fellow upstate New Yorker been lurking a while. Got some great info on installing my new stove and proper firewood care and seasoning. I've been burning wood in a Yukon Eagle Oil/Wood stove that's in my basement for a few years. The unit was in the house when I bought it. I had bad firewood seasoning practice and had a chimney fire the first year (was kind of controlled
) I was getting the fire hot enough to burn out some of the creosote but that ended with the single wall pipe turning cherry red. Was quickly put out with a fire extinguisher but the smoke triggered the smoke alarm and the fire dept did come over. They put a fan in the door in the basement to help with the smoke and offered to clean my chimney. Joking with them I told them next time I need my chimney sweep i'll put some incense on the smoke detector! They also offered me a job to come volunteer with them. They are fairly close by only about 3-4 miles away and it turns out the chief is within a mile of my house. Really nice people. The Yukon Husky that had the chimney fire was setup to fail. I found out later that winter when the creosote began to drip down the pipe and onto my concrete floor that the single wall pipe going through the concrete foundation attached incorrectly with the female ends going into the male ends so the black gooy stuff was all over the place. It's attached at the stove with a very quick 90, then about 2 feet of pipe to another 90 out the wall to a T clean out and then up above the roof line with double wall. (I hope that double wall is installed correctly! Not sure how it could be mixed up). My house is also only 1100 sq foot with 1100 sq foot unfinished basement and I found myself having to damper this stove down a lot due to the heat I was producing keeping the fire in the burn zone. Which could be another reason for my creosote buildup. I sometimes had windows open upstairs!
So...this year i'm installing a PE Super in the living space and am going to use the downstairs burner with the oil for supplemental heat in the side rooms of the house (nationwide i mean primary heat source
).Here are some pictures, so far hearth is done. Still need to get the roof and chimney done, gotta figure out which way I want to attempt the roof flashing on my metal room. Local guy said to use the boot flashing. Says its the best way to do it now adays. Still going to get a few more opinions. Oh also, Nationwide Insurance didn't require anything, just that my premium go up $91 per year. No pictures, no nothing. I'm through Nationwide Direct (I just called the 800 number when I bought the house to setup insurance). My local office said I would need someone to come inspect/take pictures if I was with them at the local level. I know I saw a post about people asking questions about insurance and all. Just thought i'd point that out. Going to ask my neighbor the fire chief about an inspection etc to make sure I cover all bases. Anyways..here are the pictures of the hearth, will update with more as the install progresses. I think it came out pretty good considering I've never made one before and my first attempt at tile/grout. Thanks for looking and glad to be apart of the hearth community.
