Hi All! Thanks in advance for all I learned here before installing the 25pdvc over the last week. After converting from oil to electric in 2005, we finally decided to add a pellet stove to the home office area I'm building in the former furnace room of our house.....the fun started with the removal of the old oil furnace dormant for a decade....
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...and that left me with this convenient corner:
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...which turned into a raised hearth (plywood, cement board & then ceramic tile) for the 25pdvc:
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Saying hi to the neighbors through thimble hole:
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and vented
:
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After installing 3 inch OAK, now camping out in front of the stove with a brew:
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The only issue I have is the slightest (really small) smoke smell on start up which vanishes in minutes...not including the lovely chemical scent of the new stove burning in. I'll take a flashlight to the piping again this weekend to see any obvious leaks, but I did RTV all the joints in the Selkirk PL pipe & saw nothing last night on start-up. I do feel their universal "adapter" included in the kit I bought is a leak waiting to happen, but regardless there is no smoke smell at all after the flue warms up. CO detector is rock on "0" too.
The good news...our semi-detached home is 2 levels + basement rec room and with the stove on, no fans, no changes, the heat flows upstairs easily through the stairwell even though the stove was installed as a space heater only....rec room is at an uncomfortably warm 89F right now with the 25pdvc on 5-5....and I'll happily suffer the heat...an excuse for a beer
...and that left me with this convenient corner:
...which turned into a raised hearth (plywood, cement board & then ceramic tile) for the 25pdvc:
Saying hi to the neighbors through thimble hole:
and vented
: After installing 3 inch OAK, now camping out in front of the stove with a brew:
The only issue I have is the slightest (really small) smoke smell on start up which vanishes in minutes...not including the lovely chemical scent of the new stove burning in. I'll take a flashlight to the piping again this weekend to see any obvious leaks, but I did RTV all the joints in the Selkirk PL pipe & saw nothing last night on start-up. I do feel their universal "adapter" included in the kit I bought is a leak waiting to happen, but regardless there is no smoke smell at all after the flue warms up. CO detector is rock on "0" too.
The good news...our semi-detached home is 2 levels + basement rec room and with the stove on, no fans, no changes, the heat flows upstairs easily through the stairwell even though the stove was installed as a space heater only....rec room is at an uncomfortably warm 89F right now with the 25pdvc on 5-5....and I'll happily suffer the heat...an excuse for a beer
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