Hey everyone,
After getting some slightly absurd quotes as high as $1200+piping/tax to install my Breckwell, I'm looking now at installing it myself. There is a WETT inspector locally who can inspect it so I'm likely going to go this route, but I have a few small questions that I'm hoping you could help me out with.
1. Placement - We live in an old church (high ceilings and open floor layout), and this will be going upstairs (downstairs and in some of the closed rooms upstairs we're going to still use natural gas to heat as needed). There are two bedrooms, a bathroom upstairs, the rest is all open to the 16ft ceiling. We're planning on placing this against the side wall in the corner of the living room. The only other option would be the back wall in more of the kitchen/dining room area, but that would curb the ability to expand cupboards and be far away from the "sitting" area, so I think the living room would be a better option?
2. We want to place the stove in the very corner as an angled install if at all possible, but the problem this would create would be that the vent pipe would have to go out beneath the window then angle so it can go in between the two windows. Pictures may be able to help visualize this better:
As you can see the stove has been sitting unused for quite some time
. Obviously chairs/couches/STOCKINGS
/etc would get moved around once this gets installed. I was planning on the exhaust going straight out around the center of the window below it, 90' angle to the right (looking from the inside, the red bars on the outside give you an idea of what I mean, the white bar is for scale, that's around 8'). Is there any problems with this, I'd be using 4" piping. I have to terminate at least 1' above the window, and I need minimum 8' of vertical piping anyways, so I'd have the following in EVL:
From Stove:
45' Elbow - 3 EVL
~4' Horizontal - 4EVL
90' Elbow - 5EVL
~2' Horizontal - 2EVL
90' Elbow - 5EVL
~10' Vertical - 5EVL
90' + 45' termination point - ??EVL
That brings me to 24' EVL before I get to the termination point, is that too much for 4" pipe? How much EVL does the termination count as, is it another 8'? Is there a better way to do this?
The other option would be to install the stove along the face of the wall between the windows, approximately where the chair is in the picture, and then that would eliminate a lot of the need for the angles/bends.
3) For WETT certification (Ontario building code) is there any requirement to terminate past your roof overhang? Should I just be going straight up around the roof overhang as recommended in the Breckwell manual with a vertical roof vent? Our overhang for reference is pretty small, eyeballing it it's about 1.5-2'
4) I'm thinking of going with this piping kit, and then just adding the required pieces (45' elbow, 90' elbow, maybe a bit more and the horizontal piping for the exterior). Is that a decent price, rather than piecing it all together? Is this the same as "L-Vent" piping that Breckwell recommends?
I think that's all the questions I have for now, thanks so much for the help in advance!
After getting some slightly absurd quotes as high as $1200+piping/tax to install my Breckwell, I'm looking now at installing it myself. There is a WETT inspector locally who can inspect it so I'm likely going to go this route, but I have a few small questions that I'm hoping you could help me out with.
1. Placement - We live in an old church (high ceilings and open floor layout), and this will be going upstairs (downstairs and in some of the closed rooms upstairs we're going to still use natural gas to heat as needed). There are two bedrooms, a bathroom upstairs, the rest is all open to the 16ft ceiling. We're planning on placing this against the side wall in the corner of the living room. The only other option would be the back wall in more of the kitchen/dining room area, but that would curb the ability to expand cupboards and be far away from the "sitting" area, so I think the living room would be a better option?
2. We want to place the stove in the very corner as an angled install if at all possible, but the problem this would create would be that the vent pipe would have to go out beneath the window then angle so it can go in between the two windows. Pictures may be able to help visualize this better:
As you can see the stove has been sitting unused for quite some time
. Obviously chairs/couches/STOCKINGS/etc would get moved around once this gets installed. I was planning on the exhaust going straight out around the center of the window below it, 90' angle to the right (looking from the inside, the red bars on the outside give you an idea of what I mean, the white bar is for scale, that's around 8'). Is there any problems with this, I'd be using 4" piping. I have to terminate at least 1' above the window, and I need minimum 8' of vertical piping anyways, so I'd have the following in EVL:From Stove:
45' Elbow - 3 EVL
~4' Horizontal - 4EVL
90' Elbow - 5EVL
~2' Horizontal - 2EVL
90' Elbow - 5EVL
~10' Vertical - 5EVL
90' + 45' termination point - ??EVL
That brings me to 24' EVL before I get to the termination point, is that too much for 4" pipe? How much EVL does the termination count as, is it another 8'? Is there a better way to do this?
The other option would be to install the stove along the face of the wall between the windows, approximately where the chair is in the picture, and then that would eliminate a lot of the need for the angles/bends.
3) For WETT certification (Ontario building code) is there any requirement to terminate past your roof overhang? Should I just be going straight up around the roof overhang as recommended in the Breckwell manual with a vertical roof vent? Our overhang for reference is pretty small, eyeballing it it's about 1.5-2'
4) I'm thinking of going with this piping kit, and then just adding the required pieces (45' elbow, 90' elbow, maybe a bit more and the horizontal piping for the exterior). Is that a decent price, rather than piecing it all together? Is this the same as "L-Vent" piping that Breckwell recommends?
I think that's all the questions I have for now, thanks so much for the help in advance!
