pot bellied stove install

[hetkind]

About ten days ago I made the rounds with the truck and came home with a new pot bellied wood/coal stove, single wall stove pipe, double wall chimney pipe, ceiling box, top cap and all the other pieces needed.

Last Friday, with the help of a roofing crew and a sissors lift, it all went together. Now we are waiting for a cold day to give it a test, perhaps this weekend. We are having unseasonably warm weather in the mid-south.

What is cool is that we have black stove pipe going straight up 22 feet from the stove before it hits the ceiling.

Let's look at costs:

stove: $400
chimney pipe, stove pipe and accessories, $980
roofing crew $400
sissors lift rent $85

Almost 2k just for a wood stove, and install. I could have bought a lot of propane for the trash can heater for that. But that would have meant hauling tank after tank of propane 20 miles from the nearest fill station and I have 20 cords of wood cut and waiting to be split. Also, a direct fire propane heater produces lots of water vapor, while a wood stove tends to dry the air out...

Plus, a woodstove and chimney, properly installed is a one time expense, you have to buy propane forever. I have all the wood I could ever burn.

I will take and post some pics this weekend.

Howard

 

[jamesemery728]

Good Luck with the stove, you should get a lot of heat and enjoyment out of it. I had a Penn Coal Stove in my basement when I lived up in Connecticut. People are under the impression that coal is dirty but I could keep that stove burning for days and the window in the door would be as clean and clear as glass. Put a piece of wood in the stove though and that glass would turn black with soot. Another advantage of coal is no creosote in your chimney.

 

[aim]

That 22' ceiling height is gonna take some serious amounts of heat. Wood stoves are great for it though. Looking forward to the pics.

 

[hetkind]

Next step is to get MORE insulation up there...the roofer who put the chimney pipe in has a friend with surplus 6" insulation batts the right width. Perhaps he will give me a good price, installed.

The high bay will come in very handy when we put the second level in...plus the exterior decks 12' up.

Howard

Howard