Realistic Corner Install (Ashford or other)

[avc8130]

I'm trying to help a buddy with his stove placement/choice/install.

He has a nice corner in his living room to put the stove, but as with most people, we need to keep it tucked in about as good as possible.

What I can't understand for the life of me, is why the stove manufacturers make it so darn difficult to figure out the corner install. Why don't they just list the horizontal length along the wall you need to come out? Instead they list the distance to the corners of the stove, but then don't give good dimensions for the stoves.

This is the space in question:





We think that hearth is laid out to fit a Blaze King Ashford 30. He originally wanted a Jotul, but the corner clearances were 9" and the Ashford is supposedly only 4".

Are there other "good" corner stoves? Does anyone with an Ashford (or anything else Cast and nice looking) have a corner install that could provide some resulting dimensions?

ac

 

[Thislilfishy]

I needed 4" in my corner install as well. I measured out 55" from each wall, and cut a 27" width angle on the front. This gave me a couple extra inches of clearance in case I ever wanted to get a different stove. Now my stove is 25.5" wide and 27.5" deep. So the Ashford will be different. It's pretty simple if you have the measurements of your stove. Just keep in mind, the corner of the stove is 4" from the wall, measure 90 degrees from the wall, not following the angle of the stove.

 

[avc8130]

That looks awesome. Love the rustic wide-board floor and the stone looks great.

What stove is that?

ac

 

[Thislilfishy]

Thanks, it's a Napoleon 1400pl, I've got a couple long threads going here detailing the install and burn times. I really liked the ashford, but it just wasn't in the budget. The floor is the original pine subfloor that's just been sanded and varnish. The stone is 1 1/4" thick soapstone on a mortar bed. Need to trim the face of it still, but I got other projects on the go right now. She's a rustic old house with lots of "character".

Ian

 

[Ash]

I believe my cast iron Isle Royale only needs 6 inch clearance on a corner install.

 

[avc8130]

I believe my cast iron Isle Royale only needs 6 inch clearance on a corner install.

So how big did your hearth wind up?

ac

 

[Ash]

So how big did your hearth wind up?

ac

54 x 54 but mine is larger than I need. Just guessing here but I would think you could knock around 3 or 4 inches off that and still meet clearance's.

 

[begreen]

The Ashford is a nice choice as would be the Jotul F55. For actual corner layout dimensions for a close clearance stove take a look at the chimneysweep's layout for the Alderlea T5 or T6. Tom has layouts for all his stove installations which is a really nice service..
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[Poindexter]

I can put up pics of my Ashford in a corner later tonight.

I went big, wish I had gone a little bigger.

Besides the stove, I got the wood box, and the tool rack and the humidifier up there, but realyl don't have room for the distilelr that makes distileld water for the humidifier.

I have 22" of hearth in front of the stove door opening, get a jumper all the way to the carpet every once in a while anyway.

 

[Poindexter]

Pic later as promised. I came eight feet out from the corner in each direction, so the hypotenuse is about 11.3 feet. I am within two inches of the door way to the dining room, and within a fraction of an inch of the existing hot water baseboard heat radiator. The eco-fan is spinning, I have it positioned directly over the combustor, just the flash froze it.

 

[avc8130]

Pic later as promised. I came eight feet out from the corner in each direction, so the hypotenuse is about 11.3 feet. I am within two inches of the door way to the dining room, and within a fraction of an inch of the existing hot water baseboard heat radiator. The eco-fan is spinning, I have it positioned directly over the combustor, just the flash froze it.
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You went out that far so you could have 4" corner clearance, 18" in front and not do any "jog" back to the walls? How far out along the wall was actually necessary?

That looks really pretty BTW.

ac

 

[begreen]

This is the T6 on a stock Yoder, sunk into the flooring for a lower profile. Each side is 54".

 

[Poindexter]

You went out that far so you could have 4" corner clearance, 18" in front and not do any "jog" back to the walls? How far out along the wall was actually necessary?

That looks really pretty BTW.

ac

Not exactly. First my wife brought home a wood stove from a garage sale. Then I did the demolition on our old ZC fireplace. The we had professionals come in and put a top shelf multiwall chimney where the ZC piping used to be.

Then I dropped a plumbob from the new chimney and made a mark on the bare subfloor. Then I made a cardboard model of the top of the garage sale stove, complete with flue opening. The I laid down three stripes of blue masking tape on the living room floor

1) minimum hearth size with stove back in corner and elbows in flue pipe.
2) Medium size hearth with straight flue dumping straight into straight chimney.
3) Largest possible hearth giving most flexibility in future for upgraded stoves.

We built the largest possible hearth in the space and have no regrets. If I was going to do it over i might make it even bigger by making a three piece front edge, kinda like begreen's above.