Minimum ceiling height ?

[Mainely Saws]

Hello folks ,
I have gone over to the dark side & started using propane for heat, but it's only October & I miss the wood stove already . I have an old house that has a cellar with 6 ft. of height between the cement floor & the bottom of the first floor joists .There is an unused interior chimney that could be lined. Are there wood stoves that could be safely installed in this space, maybe with some heat protection mounted to the underside of the joists ? I'm thinking of added punch for the Lp heat in the worst part of winter and/or for the independence in case of a power outage or just because ...............

Thanks ,
Bob

 

[Light in the Dark]

You pick the stove, and the manual on it should list alcove measurements, which you should be able to use for this exercise. Good luck.

 

[cookin2night]

Hello folks ,
I have gone over to the dark side & started using propane for heat, but it's only October & I miss the wood stove already . I have an old house that has a cellar with 6 ft. of height between the cement floor & the bottom of the first floor joists .There is an unused interior chimney that could be lined. Are there wood stoves that could be safely installed in this space, maybe with some heat protection mounted to the underside of the joists ? I'm thinking of added punch for the Lp heat in the worst part of winter and/or for the independence in case of a power outage or just because ...............

Thanks ,
Bob

Can you tap into that existing chimney from the first floor? That's what I have done in my house.

Hello folks ,
I have gone over to the dark side & started using propane for heat, but it's only October & I miss the wood stove already . I have an old house that has a cellar with 6 ft. of height between the cement floor & the bottom of the first floor joists .There is an unused interior chimney that could be lined. Are there wood stoves that could be safely installed in this space, maybe with some heat protection mounted to the underside of the joists ? I'm thinking of added punch for the Lp heat in the worst part of winter and/or for the independence in case of a power outage or just because ...............

Thanks ,
Bob

Can you tap into that existing chimney from the first floor? That's what I have done in my house.

 

[Grisu]

How will that heat reach the first floor? And on slab you will lose a big portion of the heat to the ground. I am not sure if your plan makes sense even when you find a stove whose clearances will be ok.

 

[jharkin]

Agreed. We hear lots of stories on here from folk having real trouble moving heat up to te main level from the finished and insulated basements of modern houses.... In an old house cellar with cement floor and uninstalled masonry walls its going to be doubly hard.

 

[Mainely Saws]

Thanks for the replies & suggestions . I could tap into the first floor chimney but it's in a very small room & I don't want to remove any walls . I have already done that with another interior chimney for my previous wood stove that I used for many years as a sole source of heat . I took that stove out & put a Lopi Berkshire Lp stove in it;s place along with a 1004 Rinnai heater in another adjacent room ( I have about 1000 sq.ft. of living space to heat ) . I know that my uninsulated cellar walls are a giant heat sink & maybe I will get them spray foamed someday but I have this unused second interior chimney in the cellar , I have a free source of wood & I like to make fishing lures & small hobbies in the cellar . I was thinking if I had something like an NC30 down there I could have an occasional fire in the stove to help warm the first floor floors when the temps outside dropped into bone chilling cold numbers & I could also use the cellar once in a while for making my lures . Seeing as it's an unfinished cellar I could also store some dry wood down there & not even need to go outside in the snow to get wood . I suppose a pellet stove might fit the bill too .................

Thanks for any ideas ....

Bob

 

[jharkin]

Bob,
How old is the house?

If the foundation is stone and prone to moisture spray foaming the inside could cause a lot of trouble. I have an old fieldstone foundation and have written off ever insulating it as the cost to do it right and not create worse problems from trapping water in the walls is prohibitive vs. the gains.

food for thought. buildingscience.com has a lot of informative articles on this subject.
for example http://buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-041-rubble-foundations

 

[Mainely Saws]

Jeremy ,
Thanks for the info on spray foaming . The house is about 125 years old & has brick foundation walls above grade but stones & large rock below grade . Some reinforcement has been done with concrete on the inside walls before my time of ownership but it does have some moisture problems . I will definitely check out the link that you sent , thank you . I have a neighbor close by that has a similar foundation & along with proper drainage work around the outside has spray foamed the inside about 5 years ago .......

Again , thanks for the info ............
Bob