I am leaning towards buying another Woodstock Palladian or Keystone for our upstairs, and I am trying to finalize the location. Right now the corner looks pretty good. The WS installation info says that if I use the rear heat shields for the stove and pipe, I need twelve inches' clearance from the stove corners to combustible walls. Can anybody tell me if the 12 inches is good for both rear and top vent, or is it only good for the top vent?
Woodstock Palladian/Keystone corner install rear vent question
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Provided you keep your clearances for the stove pipe, I don't see why it would matter.
I have the corner clearances all figured out, but I do not know how far off the back of the stove the pipe protrudes if I use the rear venting. My current stove uses the top vent. The pipe clearance per WS is 12 inches, too. I may go up and fiddle with measuring to see what I can guesstimate.
With the 12 inch corner clearances, the rear pipe could project from the stove by 14.5" and I'd still have a foot clearance to the walls. Can anybody tell me how far the pipe sticks out of the back of their Keystone or Palladian?
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13" from the plate of the flue collar that attaches to the back of the stove to outer edge of the double wall "T", including a 7" to 6" reducer.
I use to have a rear vented Keystone that had a 7" single wall tee with the 6" reducer on top. That way the reducer doesn't give you an extra couple inches straight out the back. You might also be able to cut down the male end an inch or two and crimp to get the tee or 90 elbow a little closer to the stove collar.
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I hadn't thought of putting the reducer on the vertical pipe. Smart! When you clean/change your cat, do you go in through the top, or do you have to disconnect the single wall and T from the back?
If you figure by my picture that the tee is 7" diameter and add a couple more inches where the tee goes into the exhaust collar I'd say it sticks out no more than 10". For comparison the side loading door is 9.5" wide. You may be able to find a 90 elbow that is even a bit more shallow than a tee?
I called Woodstock this morning, and the fellow there said that the 12" from the back of the stove (not the back of the heat shield, he emphasized) was for both top and rear venting. I figured I'd throw this up here so searchers of the future might happen across it some day.
According to the manual you also need a pipe shield for those 12" corner clearances. You may want to look into double wall pipe instead of single wall with shield or just bring the stove out a little more and go with the 18" combustible wall clearance with single wall?
If the corners are 12" from the walls, the pipe at the closest is around 19". Either way, when (if?) I install the Keystone or Palladian, I am going to use the single wall shield, so the clearances will work.
At present, I am going to build a hearth and chimney with clearances as if a WS stove were going in; however, because of my current budget, I am going to install an Englander VL-17 while I wait for a WS refurb to become available or can more easily afford a new one. We're redoing the entire room (framing in 3 sliding glass door openings, adding windows instead, new flooring, new sliding glass door), so I can't buy all the fancy up front. And the VL-17 may work well for what we want.
At present, I am going to build a hearth and chimney with clearances as if a WS stove were going in; however, because of my current budget, I am going to install an Englander VL-17 while I wait for a WS refurb to become available or can more easily afford a new one. We're redoing the entire room (framing in 3 sliding glass door openings, adding windows instead, new flooring, new sliding glass door), so I can't buy all the fancy up front. And the VL-17 may work well for what we want.
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