Bought my 1st wood stove today

No stove for quite a while, but here's another tease. The footers & walls of the foundation are in, ready for fill & compaction. Floor slab will be poured next week. Radiant heat will be installed. Vapor barrier and high density rigid foam (thermal break) will be under the floor slab.

The hearth will eventually be built up 16" high on the 1st floor as a corner install.

Houses look so small before walls are constructed!

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I see you chose radiant for primary heat! There you go! I've installed my own system twice, each one a different type of piping.

 

I guess you could say, radiant chose me. We have a concrete slab floor (no basement) and that presents expensive challenges with baseboard heat. So, radiant was cost effective.

Upstairs, I cheaped out with baseboards. I need to stretch my retirement dollars as far as possible, especially after this week's stock market performance!

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Here is the update on my new stove that I promised. Starting home construction in September on 4 acres a heavily forested, steeply sloped property in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been a challenge. We even have a creek crossing thrown in for fun. Anyway, as luck would have it, my property has received 3 feet of snow so far this season and temperatures for the last month have mostly been single digits at sunrise, sometimes with a minus sign in front! But onward we press with our corner install.

The house is framed and sheathed and the roof is finished. We just had the chimney installed by local certified chimney sweeps. The stove itself, a Woodstock Ideal Steel, will be installed after the 16" high hearth is built and near the end of construction. The chimney is a Class A, double wall, stainless steel affair. The entire process took 2 guys about 2 hours. After the chimney was installed my carpenters built a chase around the chimney where it passes through the second floor.

The attached pictures, starting in the upper left, show the 1st floor with the Outside Air Kit duct entering where the hearth will be constructed in the corner and the ceiling thimble for the stove pipe at the ceiling. Next is a shot of the stovepipe ceiling thimble. Top right shows the Class A chimney through the 2nd floor. The mid left picture shows the chimney going through the roof trusses, followed by two pictures of the chase constructed around the chimney. The bottom left picture is a close-up of the chimney passing through the roof. Finally, two exterior pictures of the chimney.

The house will be finished around 1st of March, but the ground is frozen, which will delay completion of septic system, 400' driveway, propane tank installation, etc. until spring thaw. So, by the time I can move in, there won't be much reason to burn this year. But that will give more time for the wood to season. I'll be following up once the stove is installed.

 

Rearscreen- it's been a few months since you posted this, but what were the different types of piping you used, and which did you prefer?

A little off topic, but relevant to OPs new build.

 

Ok, a couple of questions. I assume this is going under the first floor between the joists? If so, are these engineered joists or just 2 x 10's (or whatever)? Your basement is a crawl space?
So, I have used Pex al Pex in a poured slab in a basement. Reason being it is easy to work with in a slab situation but would be impossible to work with in a between the bay situation - one kink and your done. It has an aluminum "pipe" embedded. In the bays I used straight pex. This was in a full basement. I say this because if you have a crawl space, pex is a bear to work with and careful planning is essential AND a whirly gig gizmo MUST be used to deliver the pipe as you work. Pex gets stapled up with plastic "hooks" OR aluminum plates. Warning: pex expands and if you use aluminum plates = tick tick tick sounds. I used plastic hooks. I had engineered joists and I "dropped in" 1/4" ply with special radiant shiny "foil" to the side facing up. This dropped into the lower lip of the "I" beam joists. All of my loops were the same length so no flow controls were needed at manifold.
In the house I live in now, I installed Onyx rubber hose. Reason being this was existing construction and way too much stuff in the way to fight with the pex. I prefer the pex as it operates at a lower temp and transfers heat better. That said, pex expands, makes noises, and "droops" along the way. Both systems it is essential you put a reflective surface facing up not too close to the pex. They make special foil for this.
Now, to keep the forum happy, back to wood stoves. When I built my previous house, at the stage you are at now, I had my stove (Mansfield) up and running for heat even though it was all bare inside.
Old Chinese proverb: "House finished-life over".

 

I'd plan on using using double wall telescoping stove pipe? It makes cleaning from the bottom up easy. Looks like a top down sweep would be tough. Unless your a NBA player

 

Double wall, telescoping stovepipe is exactly the plan, along with a Sooteater.

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