Wood stove install

[redneck joe]

Getting a nice small old wood stove for the shed/shop/office. Raw set up so thought i'd post pics and ask questions here.


It is small, shed and stove. Shed is 10x16 and stove is 21x20 and 24 tall. No insulation, will never have it, just to have fun and burn scraps and twigs that i fish out of the yard.







plan is to build a raised platform in the corner of the shed and of course cement board in everything.

Thinking pipe angled up to center of the gable end and poke thru the wall unless anyone can tell me that the roof is better/easier/significantly cheaper.

 

[Mc Tool]

I got one similar but with only one hot plate on top . Going to adapt it so can burn used motor oil ( I have nearly 400litres ) , but my plan is to have the flue coming out of the roof at an angle and put some fins on it and paint it up to look like rear half of a rocket missile

 

[roscoe]

Getting a nice small old wood stove for the shed/shop/office. Raw set up so thought i'd post pics and ask questions here.


It is small, shed and stove. Shed is 10x16 and stove is 21x20 and 24 tall. No insulation, will never have it, just to have fun and burn scraps and twigs that i fish out of the yard.



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plan is to build a raised platform in the corner of the shed and of course cement board in everything.

Thinking pipe angled up to center of the gable end and poke thru the wall unless anyone can tell me that the roof is better/easier/significantly cheaper.

OOO THATS A DANDY !

 

[tphoyt]

That’s a great looking stove. I love it.
Just the day my wife said we need a new wood stove and I asked why. She said it was old.
I replied that’s it’s charm.
I can’t offer anything other than follow your local codes or you will be on your own if something should happen.

 

[Mc Tool]

Local codes round here are a bit strange . If one was to install a wood ( or multi fuel ) burner in ones house it must be compliant pollution wise and it requires a permit and be done by a registered installer and inspection from the local council. so I gets all honest about my shed pot belly ( thats what we Kiwi's call a cast iron burner ) which is def not compliant . Because its being installed in an "out building " and not a house no one cares and I can go for it ...no inspection required . Further to this my insurance co says that if the council dont require a registered installer or inspection they dont either , and they also state that if my self installed non compliant pot belly burns down my shed and all the stuff ( including 2 motorbikes and 1 car , which have their own policies ) inside it they will cover me ........but they wont replace the pot belly. Go figure.
Do you guys have chimenea,s ?

 

[redneck joe]

yeah we do, for outdoor use if this is what you are talking about

 

[redneck joe]

so been looking at roof penetrations; cannot find a double walled that will adjust to roof angle or even one with angle at all? Wall thimble is easy to find

 

[tphoyt]

I used two 45’s on mine to keep it as straight as possible.

 

[99yam40]

if you go out the side, how far up do you need to send it up?
above the roof peek maybe, to keep swirling winds from hampering the draft?

 

[Scott Danforth]

I heated a shop and shed with a small 24" square boiler converted to run waste oil. the boiler itself heated the shed as thats where the oil tank and boiler were. the water pump pushed the heating water to the shop where the base board heaters and a few fan units were.

I ran a short section of heavy wall steel pipe up the a class-A stove pipe. the small section of heavy wall pipe is where the oil line went into and was set up to drip onto a section of old cast-iron fry pan.

start on wood, once the fire was going, turn on the oil drip. if the wood was wet, the steam and flames coming from the outside stack would have a blue flame about 2' out the class A.

@redneck joe , I dont recommend adding the waste oil drip. however the class A chimney going straight up, then thru a roof collar would be the simplest for your shed.

Dad heated his entire house with a wood stove half the size that you have.
under his stove was simply slate pavers. the wall was a section of stainless steel stood off the wall with 2" spacers

Check your insurance policy. some do not insure a building with a wood stove.

 

[redneck joe]

if you go out the side, how far up do you need to send it up?
above the roof peek maybe, to keep swirling winds from hampering the draft?

code says 2 feet above highest point.

 

[redneck joe]

scott, no plans for oil and planned to check with insurance.

 

[99yam40]

code says 2 feet above highest point.

probably will need some guy wires to keep that pipe standing straight in the wind.
or some type of supports

 

[captmello]

I've installed a few wood stoves. I prefer going though the roof. It will draft better imo, and should be a lot cheaper because of less stainless parts outside the building. Of course someone has to get up on the roof, remove some shingles, cut a hole, install the flashing, reshigle, caulk, etc. That's a cool stove, should heat you right out of the building.

 

[flashback]

I heated a shed with a converted 55 gal. drum. There was a kit available in cast iron which came with all the parts. Biggest problem i had was the time it takes to heat up the area and then shutting it down. I wouldn't leave it going when I wasn't there..

 

[Scott Danforth]

I remember those 55 gallon drum kits. I think Menards had them for $50

 

[redneck joe]

probably will need some guy wires to keep that pipe standing straight in the wind.
or some type of supports

yeah they make a bracket

 

[flashback]

The more flue pipe you keep inside the shed, the more heat you will get inside.

 

[flashback]

I remember those 55 gallon drum kits. I think Menards had them for $50

yea, I can't remember what it cost but it wasn't much. once up and running it worked well, problem was by the time the shed got warm I was finished piddling and had to shut it down. I remember and article regarding the waste oil heaters as well, I think it was written up in mother earth magazine or something. they used an old water heater tank and the cast iron pan.

 

[Scott Danforth]

we were doing diesel to natural gas conversions at work for the Pelican line of street sweepers for Elgine Sweepers. so we had about 50 32 gallon oil tanks with bracket that we were scrapping. That became the tank.

the boiler was an old Well Mclain wood fired boiler that was being removed from a co-workers house for a gas fed one. That was the boiler

I also had the old mother-earth news article, and a pile of cast iron fry pans I was reviving....... so burner was made

I used a 12 volt DC air valve in the drip line, a 125 degree temp switch, two relays and a timer. the one relay controlled the drip line, the other controlled the pump. the pump only came on when water temp was above 125 and shut off if below

I used the free pallet wood from work to start the fire, and it would run until the oil ran out, or the timer turned off or the master switch was turned off.

forgot to close the damper once before I got it dialed in and did boil out 200 gallons of boiler coolant....