It left us.....but later returned.

[Ahoragi]

We sold our house in 2024 which had a Castle Serenity pellet stove that was used to heat it. Fortunately for us, the house was sold to a friend of ours.. He never touched the stove and sold it back to me for $230.

I finally found use for the "loading dock" that we have in front of the concrete porch. Made handling this heavy thing pretty easy...until going down the steps.



This will be in the corner next to our Arrow wood stove which we can switch to to run when we are not home. The P-43 will heat upstairs. Maybe I'll update the Castle vs Harman thread someday.

 

[stoveliker]

Nice, no learning curve with this stove!
Enjoy (more next year than this year ...)!

 

[Ahoragi]

Getting prepared to hook this up. There is some rust inside but wondering if I should do anything about it beforehand or just run it?

 

[stoveliker]

I'd just run it

 

[Ahoragi]

Run it we will.

Wondering if I could get some ideas for this. The pellet stove is going in the corner of the basement on the same wall that the wood stove is on so we can switch between them depending on our needs. Basement is all block wall but there is a wood chute right where we want to place the pellet stove. The chute is five feet up measures 2' x 1', has metal exterior door, and wooden interior door and is removable. My plan is to convert that chute into semi-permanent wall to run the exhaust through. How would you do this? I am thinking of sandwiching it between two pieces of hardwood maybe, insulate, and drill hole for thimble although I think it may be too deep for the thimble to connect. Any better ideas?

 

[Dieselhead]

An idea is gut the door and its frame, frame the opening in with PT lumber recessed 3/4” from the face of the foundation on each side. Use a pellet stove through-the-wall kit in the newly framed opening. Insulate with rockwool. Use cement board like 1/2” durarock so now you’re almost flush with the foundation then parge coat the durarock for appearance on the inside and water tightness on the outside. After that it should be flush with the foundation wall face. All that works in my head but without seeing it open/or in person it’s kinda shooting in the dark.

 

[Ahoragi]

Some more pictures

 

[Murray01]

Can you build a frame 2’X 1’using 2”X10” or 2”X12”(or whatever depths you need) and still honour the manufacturer’s clearances to combustibles?

 

[Ahoragi]

Been working on this today and have a question. The manufacture of the stove requires minimum of 2' clearance above grass, plants, or other combustibles. I plan to come out of stove to a clean out T and then up 5 feet and straight out the top left of this board via duravent thimble. It will terminate 22" above the gravel. I assume this is acceptable as gravel is not combustible? With the steel door open it shields the rail road log that is next to it. (firewood will not be there) If this is sketchy then I can always go up from stove, out the wall, and then up a couple more feet and then terminate.

I am still figuring out the cold air intake location.


I originally planned to knock out the wood chute and build a double wall but decided to leave the chute since it locks open and I can always return it if the pellet stove does not work out down there.

 

[stoveliker]

Seems fine to me.
As.long as what's below the gravel is not compost but e.g. sand.

 

[Ahoragi]

Was messing around with the piping that I had laying around. I could add another 12" piece going up to get a little more height and then a 90 and terminate it or leave it as is and just add a 90 and then terminate facing down. Can also still go straight out and terminate down but it just feels too close to the ground for my comfort.

I was a complete dumba$$ and shut the chute door after I was done test fitting the pipe. There was no way to get to the hatch on the inside to open the door. I could not unscrew and remove the exterior board because the exterior part of the thimble was blocking a screw. I tried to stick my arm and hand through the thimble and down into a 2" gap to reach the door latch but that was not happening. Then my wife walks down the steps and I asked her to try. She is a little under 5' tall, has fingers that are 3" long and very very small hands. She was able to reach down in that small gap and tug open the latch. I was saved lol.

 

[Ahoragi]

Got it going. This will be year #7 on this stove.

I can now do a comparison between this and the P43 upstairs.

 

[Ahoragi]

It went down to 38 last night. The Castle stove kept the far end of the basement at 70 and near half at 72. Upstairs stayed around 69 with no source of heat.

It's not extremely cold out so this is a light duty test but so far so good.