New house, adding a wood stove

This is ruffly where the chimney will be.. maybe slightly to the right a little..

 

can always build small fire in a larger stove. 2nd point seal up and insulate insulate insulate, which helps with the AC in the warm months. sorry for the break up -very stressful- best wishes gettingh on with life. Been down that road long time ago.

 

Hey, that looks like a nice place! Congratulations! Sorry about the circumstances leading up to it.

 

Thanks guys.. It is very much an amicable divorce, little hard to deal with having an 8yr old and 14 yr's with her, but life goes on.. I will be back to hoarding in no time.. Just a little bitter after finally filling my wood shed for the first and last time at my current house.. I can build another..

 

Glad for you that it was amicable. I wasn't so lucky. 27 years worth. Keep an eye on the rear view mirror, just a piece of friendly advise.

 

Myself, in the city with houses close like that I would be checking out pellet stoves. Your small space will be tough to heat without overheating it using wood.

 

I'm in the Puget Sound area heating 1155sf with a 1.6cf tube insert. The house is 2x6 with pretty good insulation. My electric heat only kicks on during the coldest temps when I've been at work all day.

 

I grew up in Port Angeles, I am familiar with the area!! I work 12 hour days, so it will be interesting for me in the winter.. My Son will be with my on my weekends so I can keep the fire stoked for him on those days much easier..

 

12 hours away from the house or more? Definitely consider a cat stove!

 

We also recently bought a smallish house with only electric baseboard heat--but up in the UP of MI, where -20F temperatures are common. After our first electric bill this December, we put in a Woodstock Absolute Steel (a cat hybrid stove) and haven't had to use electric heat since, and a fire lasts for 12-15 hours. I bet the Absolute would overheat your house, but the Woodstock Survival is a hybrid cat as well, very reasonably priced, extremely efficient, and sized for your space. Plus it doesn't waste wood at all. Good luck! We also installed our own Selkirk Supervent chimney from Menards. Very simple and clear instructions. The woodstove installation companies wanted $2300 for chimney + installation; we did it for $800 (after checking with our insurance company to make sure they were fine with self-installations).

 

Welcome Tiva to the FHC. You got a good stove there!

 

Welcome to the club. Bunch of great folks from all over the place. I think you will enjoy it here.

 

Welcome Tiva!! I can’t help but assume that this was not your first experience with wood heat.. What did you do for dry wood? Got some stocked up for next year? So often we hear stories of people who want to offset high heating costs, make a BIG investment in a wood stove only to be disappointed because they are trying to burn wet “seasoned” wood in it.. glad it worked out for you and wish you many warm winters to come!!

 

Bingo.

 

Nice info, thank you.. Looking at the Survival model now.. I think that would be perfect for my little house! Now to wait for a good deal!

 

I contacted the fine people at Woodstock Soapstone and got a quick reply, the survival hybrid is about 3 weeks out if ordered.. Shipping is a bit spendy but you gotta pay the piper to get what you want..

Other then just the stove, I need a hearth and a chimney.. There is also an "outside air adapter" they are recommending I purchase, how do I know if I need this?

Any recommendations on the other "stuff" I need.. chimney, hearth ect.. I plan to install myself, after contacting my insurance guy of coarse!!

 

Outside air unit will depend a bit on how tight the house is, local codes and of course Ins co. Hearth pad specs for that would be available from stove Mfg. Most of the time you can look up the manual for a particular stove on line to find that out. Chimney - a real little stove might only require a 4" flue, most stove are 6" with some like the BK King in the 8" dia size. The flue systems can run as much or more than the cost of the stove. Generally it would be double wall to the ceiling support/transition then insulated double or triple wall from there up -15 ft is pretty common for total recommended length but shorter sometimes works fine other times taller -external conditions around you will dictate some of this. The rule of thumb is 10ft x 3 ft, which means 3 ft higher than anything in a 10 ft radius of the flue. Installation - diy is common -sometimes the ins co require a certified installer or perhaps even local Gov. Likely need a permit to install ( money grubbers of gov.) .
I have had a couple of the pre-made hearth pads ( pricy ) and was not particularly pleased with them- Over built my own this time around. Another thing you need to be aware of is clearances to combustible items from the stove- again listed in the manual for what ever unit you go with.

 

The manual isn't available online yet for this little guy.. Thanks for hte info Chris!!

 

Woodstock lists the required clearances/hearthpad/etc here: Survival Hybrid Wood Stove

 

Interested to hear/see how the install went. My wife and I installed the Survival in our home this summer, but haven't gotten a first real burn going yet. Our house is 1200sqft, which I know is sacrilege to have a stove a bit on the smaller side of the home, but I've got another thread going where I'm cutting my teeth with this install.