My IS Install

I received the stove last Friday and got it inside my camp (a yurt). Here are some pics:




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I took as much off of it as I could. The door, the radiator, the catalyst, firebrick, etc.. I probably lightened it by 100lbs or so. It is a heavy SOB. I have more pics on it at the yurt website. We are going to be installing it this weekend, so will have more to show you when I get back.

 

Looks great. It will be nice once we get our's nailed down and on the way. I think the Tommy lift will work well for it.

 

Looks good. That's going to be one awfully warm yurt, or is that a sauna?

 

Nice job with the pics.

 

Heeeyyy, you pilfered my popcorn.
Oh wait, never mind, I found mines.......

Jafo, do I see an OAK hookup? Will that be required for the yurt?

 

It isn't required for the yurt, but a yurt can be drafty so thought it a good idea.

 

Yurts are challenging to heat, to say the least.

 

Getting there..

 

How big is the yurt? Looks like around 24'? Such a cool concept. The stove oughta keep ya toasty in there.

 

Had to Google "Yurt". Google images has one that looks just like your's. I wonder if it yours? That would be funny if it is.

 

I'm curious to know how well the IS heats a yurt too. I think you are the first to be heating a space like this with an IS.

 

I put my money on the IS melting it.

 

At least with the cat engaged the flue gases will be cooler where the thimble is located on the yurt wall.

 

Where is the best place to put a wood stove in a Yurt?
Center or Side?
(Corner?)

I'm thinking center, with the glass towards the entrance, but that would make it a little harder to store wood inside
Would make it the focal point of the room for sure

 

Just got back from the weekend and the install went well. We got it all together and then vented the OAK through the floor. We had a good fire the first night where it got down to 20 degrees F. We burned in the paint after about 3-4 hours and settled in for the night. Following the directions in the manual and setting the damper to 1/4 seemed to actually put the fire out and lower the temp on the cook top. So I set it to 1/2 and it fired right away. About 7 hours later though, the yurt was too cold. I had to add a few pieces of wood.

On the next night, we packed it full and set it two clicks up from 1/4 at 10pm and at 8am it was still pretty warm in the yurt, but all the wood was burned up. The temp outside was about 34 at that time. I still have some tinkering to do. Keep in mind that there is only reflective insulation in the yurt, so warmth absolutely depends on heat radiating. Once the heat source goes out, the yurt quickly cools off. For example, if the 30' yurt was 70 degrees inside, and 20 degrees outside and you instantly removed the hot wood stove, it would cool to 20 degrees inside in about 15-20 minutes.

Here are some pics of the process..

 

Awesome pics! Nice detail on how the install finished up. First time I've seen an OAK installed on an IS too. Tell us how the heat felt inside

 

The heat felt really good once I dialed in the airflow. Yurts are leaky when it comes to air, especially around the "windows". The idea of the OAK was to slow that down. It will be hard to tell until we get some really cold below zero weather, how well the OAK works.

 

Great looking stove! One thing- I thought OAKS are used when a living space is well insulated, and little outside air leaks into the house envelope? How does an OAK help in leaky spaces?

 

The combustion air has to come from somewhere.
In a leaky house, it comes in through all those leaks and flows to the stove.
Several of us have this problem to one degree or another. Putting in an OAK relieved some of that in my house.
I could literally feel the cold flowing past while sitting in the kitchen with the stove going.