My heating with wood experience consists of firing up the chiminea one day a year so my wife stays toasty during trick or treat night and campfire in the scouts 30+ years ago. My garage/shop/warehouse for chainsaw parts is about a 7 car garage all one floor but a little oddly shaped. Concrete floors, aluminum siding over wood frame with a mixture of rubber, steel and shingle roofs. A neighbor is moving and has a pair of wood burners he has offered me my pick for $500.00 One he uses in the basement and the other heats his two car garage and adjacent shop. Wood supply is no problem, all the free wood I could use, mostly ash. I currently heat with a kerosene torpedo and it is expensive and stinks. We use the warehouse area for shipping a few hours a day and a balmy 65 degrees would be perfect. What should I look for in a wood burner? Dave
definitive dave, for that space... Bigger is bettah?! Could you snap a few pics of your stove choices? Heck, a drum stove does well, just doesn't "hold" heat after the fire goes out....
The main thing is getting one big enough and in good enough shape to safely heat the area you want to heat. Also, a modern EPA approved stove will mean more heat with less wood burnt and less pollution out the chimney.
Please be careful. A woodburner in a shop environment can suck in flammable gasses. If done right it will save you thousands, if not, it will cost you thousands, at a minimum.
He lives down the street and I will try to pop over and look at them and take some pics. I forgot there is a separate electrically heated chemical room, that holds very little during the winter, we try to buy and use pesticides in the qty we use. So mostly a few cases of motor oil, some latex paint, but the heat is still UL listed ignition and spark free or some such. Dave
And, if you are planning on installing this stove, what will you do for a chimney? Lastly, wood...... has it been cut, split, and stacked a year ago? Pics will help, and you came to the right place!
I am a landscaper and rebuild saws for a decent number of local tree companies, we all drop ash like flies around here these days Also tons of wood stacked at the house with the woodburners he said I can have , he is moving to another city and will rent the house out and doesn't want renters building fires As to amount it is a pile about the size of a one car garage all stacked and a couple years old, but not all still under tarps. The chimney he uses on the garage is a 10 or 12" well casing he said I can have. He mentioned both are fan forced air and have some duct work included. I will check back in when I know more and have a few pics Dave
well finally back to check in he isn't going to rent the house, he is selling it, to my brother no less, so if I take one of the wood burners that makes me a richard mc richardson looking at what lowes has in stock Duravent 55-shp 10l no idea if it is good or bad $1100.00 burns $6 bags of pellets, it cost me about $94 to fill my salamander to run for three days of packaging duty in the garage which we do for 3-4 hours 6 days a week wondering how easy they are to install, are they decent or crap etc. behind the eight ball on getting this set up, it was 60 degrees Friday and now 20 overnight last night Dave
Take a bit of time so you're happy with your choice. Do you want to Cut, Split , Stack & season firewood. ? If not, pellets are a good way to go , but you have that already. Wood stove probably cheaper to operate. You said you have lots of available ash to burn, much cheaper but more work & need to be there to load. Good luck Either way this place has lots of experience to draw from.
got the lowes stove for $100 off which covered the tax, drove across town to the only location that had the exhaust kit, got it all installed and the garage needs some serious insulation, even fully cranked the 1500 sq ft stove doesn't heat a @850 sq ft garage area much at all, heart comes out and seems to blow pretty well but just too much leakage and cold to combat luckily the lowes has insulation as well and it literally less than a mile away on full heat full fan it uses about a 1/2 bag of pellets in @4 hours including warm up and cool down seems clean and efficient and easy to use and maintain, just a lot slower than the kerosene salamander, but we don't get instant headaches either Are there pellets that make more heat or all they all pretty much the same? Dave all in all it is lot easier to buy chainsaws
