Hey folks, been lurking around the Hearth forums a bit and decided to join... A little about what I have going on here. We live in a VERY small home, 600-ish square feet. Because of this, I built a wicked bad outdoor furnace, that works like a champ and has been awesome for many years. It is HUNGRY though, going through an embarrassing amount of wood every year. Hasn't been a problem, but I'm getting lazier and lazier and not wanting to keep that beast fed.... Anyhow, we now have an almost complete addition to our home that is going to bump us up to about 1100 square feet! We will finally have enough room for an indoor wood heater and I can STOP using my behemoth... I have several types of heating in my home, but I want the wood to be the prime heat source as it has been for the past few years.
So, our new addition has a clerestory wall/windows and it is 12 ft. tall, single pitch roof going down to your standard 8 ft. wall. I installed the triple wall chimney straight through the roof in the high part, so with the dropdown box, lets call it 11 ft. to the floor with 6 ft. on top of that. I do have another 4 ft. section of triple wall if I need to add it for possible draft issues. My triple wall is 8 inch interior diameter, I used it because it was free. My thoughts are to put a 6 inch single wall stove pipe from whatever stove I get and just go all the way up through the 8 inch with it, making it 4 wall pipe.
Anyhow, I have been REALLY busy all year and didn't get any wood put away... Hasn't been much of an issue with the outdoor unit, when I get too much buildup in the pipe, I just open the door, let it cook and watch the fireshow out the flue... Can't do that with an indoor stove hahaha.
I was looking at buying a fancy new stove, however reading up on them they seem to be very sensitive to fuel, so it would seem like my best bet for this season is to find an affordable older stove and use it, then remove it and put in a fancy one next season when I have some decent wood to burn.
All that said, you know what I have to work with now. What is the group consensus on a decent stove to use for the season using suboptimal wood? Something like a Fisher? How about those cabinet style heaters? Thoughts, recommendations, curses? By the way, I live in the woods, so no real worries about bothering anyone with my burning of suboptimal wood.
To re-phrase... what would my best option be for a stove that can handle "bad" wood? I have access to one of those cheapie cabinet style stoves right now, but I'm unsure if I should get it or hold out and find something else. The only thing I'm dead-set on is to not run a boxwood stove in my house, I bought one for my shop and immediately gave it away haha.... those things are pretty much full blast till they're empty.
So, our new addition has a clerestory wall/windows and it is 12 ft. tall, single pitch roof going down to your standard 8 ft. wall. I installed the triple wall chimney straight through the roof in the high part, so with the dropdown box, lets call it 11 ft. to the floor with 6 ft. on top of that. I do have another 4 ft. section of triple wall if I need to add it for possible draft issues. My triple wall is 8 inch interior diameter, I used it because it was free. My thoughts are to put a 6 inch single wall stove pipe from whatever stove I get and just go all the way up through the 8 inch with it, making it 4 wall pipe.
Anyhow, I have been REALLY busy all year and didn't get any wood put away... Hasn't been much of an issue with the outdoor unit, when I get too much buildup in the pipe, I just open the door, let it cook and watch the fireshow out the flue... Can't do that with an indoor stove hahaha.
I was looking at buying a fancy new stove, however reading up on them they seem to be very sensitive to fuel, so it would seem like my best bet for this season is to find an affordable older stove and use it, then remove it and put in a fancy one next season when I have some decent wood to burn.
All that said, you know what I have to work with now. What is the group consensus on a decent stove to use for the season using suboptimal wood? Something like a Fisher? How about those cabinet style heaters? Thoughts, recommendations, curses? By the way, I live in the woods, so no real worries about bothering anyone with my burning of suboptimal wood.
To re-phrase... what would my best option be for a stove that can handle "bad" wood? I have access to one of those cheapie cabinet style stoves right now, but I'm unsure if I should get it or hold out and find something else. The only thing I'm dead-set on is to not run a boxwood stove in my house, I bought one for my shop and immediately gave it away haha.... those things are pretty much full blast till they're empty.
. Ideally the chimney would have been 6" because this is what any new stove sized for this space would require. Yes, take it out and put in the right stuff. A chimney can get very hot.
well, better to find out now while I still have bare stud walls/ceiling than after drywall is in
SO, this stuff is 8 inch triple wall stainless, b.s. then right?
