I finally got around to hooking up my woodstove in my garage. My aunt bought a new wood stove last year and gave me her old one. It's nothing fancy or big, but it's better than no heat in the garage. I need to finish the chimney later this week due to available daylight. But here are some pictures. Don't mind the mess. My work bench used to be where the stove is now. So everything is unorganized. More pictures to come once it's complete.
Please re-check the stove pipe manufacturer's clearance to combustibles requirements for that section going out the wall. Also, you will find that your insurance policy will probably be cancelled for having the wood stove in your garage...unless you build a room separated from the rest of the garage. Thats how it is around here, anyway. After all that was said, it sure will be nice to have heat in the garage!
Thanks for the advice. I don't plan to leave the pipe as is. I just wanted to get it all fit together first. I will be burning a 20" square with an 8" circle in the middle out of stainless off our CNC plasma table at work to go around the pipe. Then an 18" square will be cut out of the wall. The pipe will not be touching any combustibles. As far as insurance goes I don't really know how that works. They know there's a wood furnace in my basement. Can't see how it's much different, especially being it will only be used on occasion when I'm working in the garage on very cold days. Thanks again for the advice.
There tends to be combustibles like oil, gas, paint, thinner, WD40, brake cleaner, and the like in the garage. Most people don't put those items in their house. I think that is the reasoning of the insurers. What type of stove is it? Enjoy your heat
x2 What Coach said. Beyond that, more power to you. I wish I had wood heat in my attached garage but when I looked into putting my Daka in there and then piping the hot air into the house they (the insurance co) freaked out about it not being in a separate room from the vehicles, flammables, and stuff.
Not any difference with my insurance company but it can vary from company to company, best to know where you stand.
The idea I've toyed with is to put something like, a Daka, Tundra, or any "furnace" type wood stove, in a small utility shed just adjacent to the building I wanted to heat then just install a couple of round insulated ducts (one for heated air and one for return or "cool" air) between the two and voila! A guy could even put it up next to a seldom used walk-in door and pipe the heat in that way, by temporarily replacing the door with an dinged up slab from Menards and cutting a couple holes in it. Heck you could even just put the stove you have in a well insulated little utility shed, pick up an old furnace squirrel cage blower and some ducting, and call it a furnace shed by just swapping the air with the shed itself. I'm just full of ideas when it comes to spending other peoples money. Carry on!
I know lots of folks that have wood burners in their garage. The problem is the building code does not allow woodburning appliances in the garage. Therefore insurance companies are reluctant to go along with that. Better check, just to be safe. If they're okay with it then I'd say you're good to go. Just be careful with flammable liquids
I have a permitted, inspected, approved, woodstove in my detached garage. Had to switch insurance companies to find one that was happy to insure me with the woodstove in the garage but it was not hard. The building code doesn't allow solid fuel burners in a garage, however, there is a fine line between a shop, barn, shed, and garage. Having an overhead door does not mean you have a garage.
Having an overhead door does not mean you have a garage.[/QUOTE] (see above) Yes and no. Like you said, check different companies. i know one fellow that couldn't get insurance for his wood stove in garage even though he turned it into a sound studio...well, more like a rec room and practice with the band studio! And it all boiled down to because the garage doors were still there! Even after he showed them the pics and actually had them on site, they still called it a garage! End result-one lost customer for that company.
