Treehouse Stove

[ryanmd]

Last summer I built a treehouse. I want to add some heat to it for this winter. I am thinking of Vogelzang Lil Sweetie because it is light, cheap, and has a cook top. I dont need anything too fancy to heat up a 12x12 room.
The question I have is on the pipe. Im trying to go light and cheap here too. Is there a way to just use black stove pipe? My walls are just a single piece of plywood. The thimbles Ive seen are made to go through a house wall with at least a few inches of space in between so what should I use to pass the chimney through and insulate the wall from it. Also can I end the chimney horizontally after it comes out of the wall or is there a reason I would need it too continue up vertically. Ill cut it at an angle and put a screen on it to minimize water and animals getting in. It might look a little funny but it would save a few bucks.

Thanks for helping a stove newb. This application is a little different than most but Im sure someone can point me in the right direction.

 

[KindredSpiritzz]

I would think you need to continue up on the chimney so the stove drafts properly and so smoke doesnt blow back into the structure. I'd get a big piece of sheet metal and cut a hole to run the stove pipe thru. Course its not remotely safe pretty much any way you do it. I thought about doing it to my deer stand for awhile but ended up running electric to it instead.

 

[begreen]

Our primary focus here is on safety. Whatever you do keep the hot pipe far away from any combustibles.

 

[Grisu]

Installing a stove safely in a space that small and completely made out of combustibles will be a challenge. I would look into marine (boat) woodstoves as they are designed for a similar application. Here are some examples: http://www.marinestove.com/index.htm and http://www.shipmatestove.com/Results.cfm?category=6

 

[begreen]

Marine stove or Vogelzang, running single-wall through a wall and using it as chimney is a major exception to recommended practices.

 

[stoveguy2esw]

http://graystoveworks.com/

another small stove option quite a bit less expensive then the marine stoves flue is done with 3 or 4 inch pipe

 

[Rickb]

http://graystoveworks.com/

another small stove option quite a bit less expensive then the marine stoves flue is done with 3 or 4 inch pipe

That's a neat little stove.

 

[KindredSpiritzz]

not for $900 it's not. Yikes

 

[Jags]

I can't imagine how this will work out. The stove will need to be secured (like a mobile home install), it needs a proper wall pass thru (which the OP isn't talking about) and it needs proper exterior pipe with a fair vertical rise (which also hasn't been addressed). All of this being done on the interior canopy of a tree. I can't say that I would recommend this in any way.

 

[northwinds]

Light, cheap and safe aren't going to fit together. If you do a google search on "wood stove in treehouse", you will find some examples. To do it safely,
you are going to have to follow the same rules as if the woodstove was in your house. I like this one, but it is indeed a tree house.

(broken link removed to http://www.lynneknowlton.com/our-treehouse/)

 

[begreen]

Who will be in this treehouse, adults or children?

 

[ryanmd]

Those are some great looking stoves but way to much $$ for this application. I will run some class A chimney through the wall as recommended. I was just wondering if there was an easier shortcut and what the reason for having to run it vertically after it goes out side. Wind blowing my draft back in makes some good since. Thanks for the advice ill keep yall posted when its installed.

 

[begreen]

Can you run it straight up through the roof? That will cost less and will draft a little better.

 

[ryanmd]

The roof is made of a polycarbonate plastic type corrugated material so i think the wall will be easier to deal with.

 

[BobUrban]

its a fort - have a safe egress and run the pipe UP - why on earth would you consider dumping it straight out? The cost is so nominal for a section or two of stove pipe - like save you pop cans cheap. Make it work properly and go UP

 

[begreen]

If fort meaning it's for kids, this sounds like a darn foolhardy venture. Skip the stove completely.

 

[dougand3]

what the reason for having to run it vertically after it goes out side.

One word - DRAFT. You want the fire to burn and smoke to leave the stove through the pipe. The pipe/chimney is the engine that propels the fire.

I'm starting to think this is a "test"...do newbies get safety conscious answers on hearth.com? As BG says, this is sounding foolhardy.