Ideal Steel Install completed, first burn/cure

[Commodorefirst]

Well to update folks, I was the one who had the frost issue, with the pipe, and after a week of removing the insulating plug and just letting the air travel up the tube, we had no further issues with frost dripping when the pipe above the rooflne is hit by am sun.

Install completed yesterday.

Some photos of the stove, and the first burn is going well. For folks information, we are 7" from the back of the extra heat shield on the back of the stove. And although not required, we put fireproof cement board (just in case) on the walls behind the stove.

First load was about 35% full, mix of hickory, maple and red oak, elm, all at least 4 years old. Burned great, cat engaged, life is good.

 

[MAD777]

Congratulations! I'm constructing my house now with an IS stove. I'm envious of your seasoned wood, as I will be starting from scratch.

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[Highbeam]

Single wall plus pipe shield? Any reason you avoided double wall?

 

[Commodorefirst]

Congratulations! I'm constructing my house now with an IS stove. I'm envious of your seasoned wood, as I will be starting from scratch.

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Yep, our home was a new build, and planned around the stove instead of a fireplace. Regarding our seasoned wood, We bought our farm a decade ago, and I just started putting up wood when the trees were torn down from storms, hence the wide variety. I had a huge Elm tree that was over 130 years old get damaged by storms along with some maple. The rest from our woods on our property.

 

[Commodorefirst]

Single wall plus pipe shield? Any reason you avoided double wall?

We thought about this a great deal, and actually the reason was my spouse liked the pipe thermometer on the single wall, so she can easily operate the cat and switch it at the correct time. We have an IR temp gun so we can monitor the stove top and cat area, and only have to have the one guage for now.

I mentioned we could do an interior probe in the chimney, but hey.... This was the decision. We have a nice heavy 22 guage sealed seam pipe, so it should last a good long time, and we can always go double wall in the future. The little extra heat thrown into the room and upstairs is helpful too. The stove is located between kitchen, dinning, and living room next to our stairs to go upstairs.

 

[MAD777]

What are those pads under the feet? I suppose they are non-combustible.

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[albrown60]

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Well to update folks, I was the one who had the frost issue, with the pipe, and after a week of removing the insulating plug and just letting the air travel up the tube, we had no further issues with frost dripping when the pipe above the rooflne is hit by am sun.

Install completed yesterday.

Some photos of the stove, and the first burn is going well. For folks information, we are 7" from the back of the extra heat shield on the back of the stove. And although not required, we put fireproof cement board (just in case) on the walls behind the stove.

First load was about 35% full, mix of hickory, maple and red oak, elm, all at least 4 years old. Burned great, cat engaged, life is good.

Congrats ! This is quite a beautiful unit. How big is the fire box ? You will probably be able running it for more than 12 hours before a reload.

 

[Commodorefirst]

Congrats ! This is quite a beautiful unit. How big is the fire box ? You will probably be able running it for more than 12 hours before a reload.

I think it s a 3.2 cu ft capacity, I like that it can hold longer splits, up to 22".

 

[Commodorefirst]

What are those pads under the feet? I suppose they are non-combustible.

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They are like supersliders, but more like a commercial version of them, hard plastic and interior harder black resin, we used those in our shops at the high school to slide heavy metal desks around on concrete floors, no idea of brand. I did torch one with a propane torch, it melted for about 30 seconds under direct flame before doing a black plastic melt burn. Good enough for my use to keep from cracking my ceramic tile.

 

[SpaceBus]

They are like supersliders, but more like a commercial version of them, hard plastic and interior harder black resin, we used those in our shops at the high school to slide heavy metal desks around on concrete floors, no idea of brand. I did torch one with a propane torch, it melted for about 30 seconds under direct flame before doing a black plastic melt burn. Good enough for my use to keep from cracking my ceramic tile.

I used some round ones to move our old stove across our tile floor. It will go outside under a tarp eventually, but for the winter it sits in a corner holding up some plants.

I doubt they will get hot enough to melt or burn, but that's not to code, however you feel about that topic.

That stove is sharp in your new construction. I considered that stove, but thought it was way too big and would look weird in our classic styled 70's salt box. If we had a larger more contemporary home we might have gone with it.

 

[moresnow]

Musically inclined is guess!

 

[MAD777]

Musically inclined is guess!

Why would you say that? [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]

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[vwmike]

Love everything about these stoves.....except that they aren't UL approved for use up here! Not many guys on here with them, please keep us updated with how it's working for you.

 

[Commodorefirst]

I used some round ones to move our old stove across our tile floor. It will go outside under a tarp eventually, but for the winter it sits in a corner holding up some plants.

I doubt they will get hot enough to melt or burn, but that's not to code, however you feel about that topic.

I do tend to worry about that, and realize this is the one tiny thing with our new install and construction. Why I checked one out.

Also, why, though I am within clearances, we opted for cement board on these walls. Appreciate the reply.

 

[Commodorefirst]

Why would you say that? [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]

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Musically inclined is guess!

Yep, we both are retired music educators, I was a piano, and trumpet major, spouse was Tuba, and elementary music specialist, our 27 year old daughter, is a dancer, but french horn player too. Pretty obvious. We wanted something different than normal. One of the few companies that customizes stoves. And I knew I wanted a hybrid cat.

 

[Commodorefirst]

Love everything about these stoves.....except that they aren't UL approved for use up here! Not many guys on here with them, please keep us updated with how it's working for you.

First 1/3 load and burn was great, great draft, no smoke spillage at all when opening the front door, lasted about 4 hours useable warmth with about 3 of that with cat engaged. I started it slow to ease in the soapstone and control paint fumes.

 

[yooper08]

Love the music theme in the design.

 

[moresnow]

Trumpet and piano myself growing up. Not for years now however.

 

[Highbeam]

I wonder how many oddball requests, maybe somewhat inappropriate like those trucker mudflap girls, that woodstock has had for these custom stoves?

 

[Commodorefirst]

I wonder how many oddball requests, maybe somewhat inappropriate like those trucker mudflap girls, that woodstock has had for these custom stoves?

Who knows, lol. Some of their dsigns in their design book were just plain weird. And of course they have a lot of standard traditional, and then the custom route like we did.