Re: O/T: Chimney question

Posted by Pops1532 on November 20, 2010 at 15:49:40 from (71.239.11.176):

In Reply to: O/T: Chimney question posted by HuskerMedic on November 19, 2010 at 17:53:39:

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I used to heat with a wood stove. It was a small simple cast iron "boxwood" stove from TSC. I built a brick and stone platform for it to sit on in a corner of the kitchen. The furnace was on the opposite side of the wall. I cut a hole in the wall. Cut a hole in the return air plenum and installed a filter rack. Then I built a "hood" over the stove. Basically the hood formed an "L" shape to box in the area in the corner above the stove. It extended down from the ceiling about a foot. . I then covered the walls and inside the hood with cement board. I used a 6" triple wall chimney from the ceiling out through the roof. I placed the stove on the platform, ran single wall from the stove to the triple wall at ceiling height. I then mounted a limit switch from a furnace out of sight in the hood and wired it to the blower motor on the furnace. I took some used galvanized sheet metal and made a heat shield to go between the stove and walls. When the stove would heat up the heat would rise causing the limit switch to switch on. That would start the blower motor on the furnace. The furnace would pull the hot air from above the stove through the filter rack into the return plenum, down through the furnace and distribute it via the ductwork throughout the house. I heated a poorly insulated 1250 SF ranch house with lousy windows in the country with that tiny little wood stove!

The stove would hold two 16-18" logs. We kept the house at 72-75 degrees all winter. My two month gas bill for January and February was $17. Not bad for northern IL in the 1980's.

I did make one modification to the stove. It burned too hot so I took a piece of round stock and formed it to match the sliding cast iron intake damper. I drilled and pinned it to the damper so it could close the air intake on the front and only leave an area on each end opened. We were able to control the fire much better. We also had a damper in the chimney. The stove, chimney, limit switch, bricks, etc set me back a little over $200 (1980's). My insurance carrier required the fire department to inspect the set up. That set up far exceeded my expectations.

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