OAK

[sawdust1]

Would it be OK to have the OAK pull the air from the garage? I ask this because the wall that I would go through is right next to the garage. I have a lenox montage with no OAK at this time. Thanks in advance.

 

[TimfromMA]

If your garage is like mine, it's unheated and not sealed very well. If so, you can definitely pull OAK air from there.

 

[Harvey Schneider]

This is probably against code anywhere.
The danger is, if there are gasoline fumes in the garage and they get pulled into the stove, you could have a "rapid expansion of gasses" (explosion). The expansion might even push back into the garage and ignite the fumes in there.
In short, a bad idea.

 

[moey]

^ what he said.. Bad idea..

 

[twodogs02]

Agree, it's a code violation and puts the family at risk for kaboom

 

[Tonyray]

Shame... would have been a good idea if u didn't own a car..

 

[Pellet-King]

All this OAK talk has got me thinking, I never had one or even none of my pellet burning buddies have one either, I have a insert really no way to hook it up unless I drill a 2" hole thru the chimney liner and brick wall, not a good idea for resale value of my house, another problem is whitfield's have a box with a round hole then the OAK tube goes to back of stove, never saw a plug or told otherwise, I would think hooking up outside air with the hole is worthless, why did Whitfield design that hole?
But I do feel serious drafts sitting on the couch, also having a forced air heating system along with a 45 degree cellar duct setup cold air is getting sucked up stairs as i can feel it with my hand in the coldest days.

 

[fmsm]

Pull it from the chimney if you can. Mine goes to the top and pulls it the entire length. Others just run it up after the block up plate.

 

[Bioburner]

All this OAK talk has got me thinking, I never had one or even none of my pellet burning buddies have one either, I have a insert really no way to hook it up unless I drill a 2" hole thru the chimney liner and brick wall, not a good idea for resale value of my house, another problem is whitfield's have a box with a round hole then the OAK tube goes to back of stove, never saw a plug or told otherwise, I would think hooking up outside air with the hole is worthless, why did Whitfield design that hole?
But I do feel serious drafts sitting on the couch, also having a forced air heating system along with a 45 degree cellar duct setup cold air is getting sucked up stairs as i can feel it with my hand in the coldest days.

I heard the reasoning of the pseudo fresh air was that if the intake got plugged the stove would not have issue with getting air:-