OAK for the 30

Definitely will check the actual size and make the hole slightly larger.
Chris, this stove sits on an elevated hearth of about 1'. The pipe will come down out of the stove to the floor of the hearth, make a l/h turn to the edge, then down a few inches or maybe all the way to the floor, then another turn to go out the wall.
No basement. The little bit I ran the stove, I didn't experience any backdraft.

 

Finally got the hole saw from my brother.
Hey, there's a hole in my wall!

The modified termination installed. I caulked it too, inside and out.


Rain guard, vermin guard, hoodie thingy.

Connection at the stove inlet.

I need to trim this back to the wall that isn't there yet, then paint everything black....maybe.
Supposed to get down to about 45 tonite, so it's just temped in, in case we have a fire.

 

It'll be awesom-er when the room is done.

 

Nice work! Looking forward to your opinion on it helping with the drafts.

 

Had a little 3 split pine fire this morning because the house was a little cool.
Outside was 50, so not really cool enough to NEED a fire, but I'm on a mission....so I had one anyway.
Not chilly enough to notice any major difference yet.
Besides, even though I had the doors closed, one of the bedrooms and the bathroom windows were open the whole time.
I didn't notice any undue amount of air from them.

 

Where you hook up to the stove, on the nipple welded to that box, sis you look inside that box and find a huge pile of welding slag or almost steel balls in there? Mine was full of them and I don't know if they are there for some reason or just nobody cleaned them out after production. They sound real nice flying up the shopvac hose.

 

No, I didn't even think of that.
Thanks for the tip though. I'll pull the tube and get a light and mirror to check it out.
Shop vac will be at the ready.

 

Forgot about my own thread.......
So, the OAK works.
Right now, I've got the direct vent heater running that's in the laundry room at the back of the house and the 30 running in the front end.
Trying to catch both as we speak.

Now that it's cold out, I'm still feeling coolness on the back of my neck and arms. This is not gooder, and also not completely unexpected. I live in a colander. Holes everywhere.
I've found a couple more issues in the laundry room allowing air infiltration that will be remedied soon. The dryer vent hood flapper is clogged in the open position, which allows a lot of cold in through the dryer. Putting in a new one soon. It's just easier than trying to clean the old one and they're pretty inexpensive.

 

A colander... that's funny, and a perfect way to describe holey homes. Our farm was sure like that for the first 4 years we were there. It seemed like and endless battle. Hope you can find and plug most of your air intakes. Such a pain to make good heat, only to watch it head over to the neighbor's house...

 

Hey Dave
My dryer vent is on the windy side of the house, the little flappers don't seal much cold air out, get clogged up easily and ripped off by the wind, I picked one of these up the other day, someone posted about them in another thread recently, seems like a gooder solution.

http://www.truevalue.com/product/Dryer-Vent-Seal-4-In/48085.uts?keyword=dryer vent

 

I've mentioned it before, but we have one of those carousels in the base corner cabinet on an outside wall.
If you put your hand in there, you can feel the cold. WTH?!
Who built this place? I'm thinkin' Moe, Larry, and Curly. Gotta' be.

I'll take a look the next time I'm at HD for something. If I need to, I'll replace the darn thing every year. They're cheap.
Thanks for the link. Did you get that installed yet, and how does it work?

 

One of the kitchen windows is pretty bad, so that one is done.
I'd like to do the windows in the stove room, since those go into a freeze thaw cycle which gets into the walls and ruins stuff. I have the film, just need to do it.
Those windows won't be changed for a couple years, but they're on my hit list.
I really think that a lot of the cold is coming from the walls wherever there's a joint, like corners and also along the bottom wall plate.
That's been my experience so far after tearing into a couple rooms down to the studs.
I also plan to make an attic hatch cover from foamboard, since the attic stairs weren't put in flush to the ceiling. That causes gaps that are hard to seal in normal ways.
Every time I look at something, I just shake my head. The details will kill ya' if you happen to be lazy.