After our situation with the DW 2479, we decided to "up grade" our stove.
Our situation. We have a 1,200 sq ft poorly insulated cape. We are in central Ct. The stove is in an unfinished basement. If we had it to do all over again it would be up stairs. Our basement occasionally (once a year) gets some water in it. We are working on a final solution for that. Therefore finishing/insulating the basement is a project that is being mulled over. I am in the procees of adding FG insulation to the upstairs crawl spaces and the "attic". We realize the stove is WAY oversized for the house. Given its location and our current heat loss, it (I think) is neccasary. Our plan is to properly insulate the house, and eventually install a properly sized stove in the living room. I have been around wood burning off and on for a while. This is our first attempt at burning with a modern stove. The DW was an expensive learning curve! Not slamming the stove, it just didn't perform for us.
The stove has 3' of single wall (new to this stove) with a flue gas probe 18" off the griddle and a butterfly damper about 3' off the griddle. The single wall goes into a double wall 90 degree elbow, wich goes into class A Metal Fab pipe. The class A goes through the foundation and then up 24' out side the envelope of the house. It is on the southern side of the house.
I installed the stove and went through the break in fires yesterday and last night. Even with the basement door open, the vent fan over the stove on, the fire alarms went off at least 8 times. With the DW the odor was about a third for the breakin fires. Even now we can still smell the paint odor. I did clean off as much of the vegetable oil off the griddle as I could.
I did my third and final break in fire at 9:00 pm last night. At 6:00 am this morning the stove top (measure at the rear of the stove top in front of the stove pipe/rear of the griddle) was still 200 degrees and the stack temp was about the same. I was able to get a fire going and load with three more Red Maple 3"-4" splits in about 10 minutes. It is now 8:30 and the stove top temps are at about 525 and the stack temp (via probe) is about 700 degrees. The butter fly damper is about 90 % closed
Any thoughts? What are we doing correct? What are we doing incorrect? What should we be aware of with the described system?
So far the stove is a vast improvement over the DW. Time will tell!
Larry D
The changes to our system include the stove (obviously), single wall pipe, and a butterfly damper. The wood that we have has been split and stacked for two years. I am currently using some Red Maple.
Our situation. We have a 1,200 sq ft poorly insulated cape. We are in central Ct. The stove is in an unfinished basement. If we had it to do all over again it would be up stairs. Our basement occasionally (once a year) gets some water in it. We are working on a final solution for that. Therefore finishing/insulating the basement is a project that is being mulled over. I am in the procees of adding FG insulation to the upstairs crawl spaces and the "attic". We realize the stove is WAY oversized for the house. Given its location and our current heat loss, it (I think) is neccasary. Our plan is to properly insulate the house, and eventually install a properly sized stove in the living room. I have been around wood burning off and on for a while. This is our first attempt at burning with a modern stove. The DW was an expensive learning curve! Not slamming the stove, it just didn't perform for us.
The stove has 3' of single wall (new to this stove) with a flue gas probe 18" off the griddle and a butterfly damper about 3' off the griddle. The single wall goes into a double wall 90 degree elbow, wich goes into class A Metal Fab pipe. The class A goes through the foundation and then up 24' out side the envelope of the house. It is on the southern side of the house.
I installed the stove and went through the break in fires yesterday and last night. Even with the basement door open, the vent fan over the stove on, the fire alarms went off at least 8 times. With the DW the odor was about a third for the breakin fires. Even now we can still smell the paint odor. I did clean off as much of the vegetable oil off the griddle as I could.
I did my third and final break in fire at 9:00 pm last night. At 6:00 am this morning the stove top (measure at the rear of the stove top in front of the stove pipe/rear of the griddle) was still 200 degrees and the stack temp was about the same. I was able to get a fire going and load with three more Red Maple 3"-4" splits in about 10 minutes. It is now 8:30 and the stove top temps are at about 525 and the stack temp (via probe) is about 700 degrees. The butter fly damper is about 90 % closed
Any thoughts? What are we doing correct? What are we doing incorrect? What should we be aware of with the described system?
So far the stove is a vast improvement over the DW. Time will tell!
Larry D
The changes to our system include the stove (obviously), single wall pipe, and a butterfly damper. The wood that we have has been split and stacked for two years. I am currently using some Red Maple.
