Unless it is up against the wall, your wood stove radiates powerful heat from all sides, including the top, maximizing its heat output in every direction. Making it the best way of heating your home. It generally costs less to produce one thermal unit with wood than electricity, oil, or gas.
With a wood burner, you can produce a kilowatt-hour of heat at one-fifth of the cost of producing the same amount of heat with electricity. The cost of a kWh of gas or oil is generally about three times that of wood. And, you can save even more when using a wood stove because of its efficiency. The stove allows for better control of the fire and burns more slowly.
As a result, you use less wood to keep your room warm at any point. Considering how energy prices continue to rise, using a wood burner to heat your home more affordably makes a lot of sense. Of course, you may be unable to use the stove to heat all the rooms in your home. Still, it is likely to come in handy in your main living rooms where you spend the most time with your family.
Unlike electricity or gas, whose prices tend to be standardized, wood can be much cheaper in some places. So if you live in an area where wood is more readily available, you could get it at much lower costs and maximize your savings.
There is also the possibility of using corn cobs or harvesting your own firewood, and heating your home at no additional cost. This is especially a viable alternative for DIY fans who are comfortable around tools. In this case, you may need to log trees, split and cut them into small pieces to fit in your stove. This is particularly important if you live in a place that experiences frequent power outages occasioned by unpredictable winters or heavy storms.
You can count on it to keep your home warm around the clock, unlike the electric fireplaces. Wood is a safe fuel source for the environment. Unlike coal, natural gas, or propane that contribute a certain percentage of carbon footprint, burning wood does not add carbon dioxide to the environment. Because of this eco-friendliness, using a wood-burning stove will help you avoid contributing to ozone depletion and global warming.
You will want to take a few things into account to ensure you carry out a successful installation and make the most of your new stove. Woodstove inserts tend to be robust and produce superior heat quality. Just a tiny unit can sufficiently heat up to square feet of space. So, it will be essential to calculate your room size before buying the stove. This is the best way to determine the size of a wood stove that will sufficiently heat up the room.
The idea is to avoid overheating the space or providing it with insufficient heat output. Following this standard ensures the safe construction and installation of a fireplace or solid fuel device wood burning stove. In order to meet the EPA requirements, manufacturers are now required to build wood burning stoves that emit a much lower amount of PM or Particulate Matter than stoves built in the past.
These emissions standards are met by building one of two types of stoves. Stoves are either catalytic or non-catalytic. Catalytic stoves use a device similar to a vehicle catalytic converter to re-burn the smoke and reduce the emissions from the stove. Non-catalytic stoves use a baffle before the smoke exits the stove and introduces pre-heated air to re-burn the smoke and lower the PM that exits through the chimney. The catalytic stove is typically more efficient when new but the catalytic converter will need to be cleaned and will require replacement in years depending on the size.
A pellet burning stove burns, pellets! This newest version of pellet burning stoves have several advantages and some disadvantages. First, they use a much smaller, lower temperature chimney or vent pipe than a traditional wood burning system.
They chimney system cost less, it is smaller in diameter, and will generally be easier to install. Second, pellets are stocked and sold in various stores. This includes the big box home improvement stores, the farm supply stores, and wood stove retailer locations.
This makes finding and purchasing your fuel supply convenient and keeps the price consistent. Pellet stoves have a hopper that is filled with pellets. This hopper typically only needs to be filled one time a day. This is also more convenient than a wood burning stove that requires filling times a day. Lastly, the pellets are cleaner than the wood that is hauled in from the woods.
They have no dirt, bugs, or debris that gets hauled into the home living area. The negative is that it requires electricity to operate. This would not be good in a power outage unless you have a generator to back-up your system. The cost of the pellets is considerably higher than the cost of firewood. This may be offset by the lack of work required cutting, splitting, and stacking to build up a yearly firewood supply.
Once you have chosen a stove, the placement of the stove is the next decision. A central location is ideal. If your home or building has multiple stories, the lower the location, the better. Heat rises! A blower on the stove will move the heated air away from the stove, but not down.
Hot air only moves up. In my home, I was able to locate the wood burning stove on a wall adjacent to my propane furnace. This allowed me to connect to my heating duct system in the house to blow warm air from the wood stove through the house.
Another option is to place the wood burner near a cool air return vent. Heat from the stove can be directed into the cool air return duct and distributed throughout the home using existing duct and the furnace fan.
Find a location as near to an entrance as possible. There will be many trips to the outside for wood, the closer to the door the better. Again, at my house, I was able to install a small door in my utility room wall as a pass-through for wood.
I have a wood box that sits on the outside of the house on the other side of the door. Last but most importantly is the location for the chimney. The chimney may go out a side wall and up the outside wall. This will also require multiple degree turns in the chimney pipe. The straighter the pipe, the better, a chimney that is straight up and out is the ideal situation for a smoke-stack.
This allows for the best draw of smoke, the least amount of buildup in the chimney pipe, and the easiest conditions for cleaning. Brick or a surface that is modular should be used. Many variations are available in different size, shapes, and colors. Make sure the floor in front of the stove is covered several feet out from the door. At this point, your wood burning stove installation is done.
We lit a small piece of paper and placed it into the firebox. We watched to see if the flame drew towards the chimney which it did in our case. A wood stove is such a treat, as not only does it provide heat , but you can cook on it too and create many cherished family memories around it during the deepest darkest winter times.
I hope this guide will help with your wood burning stove installation and that you may enjoy the warmth and memories it will create. This article contains incorrect information.
This article does not have the information I am looking for. Your answer will be used to improve our content. The more feedback you give us, the better our pages can be. Your privacy is important to us. Stay tuned for the first newsletter in the morning, straight to your inbox. For now, feel free to continue reading. We recently installed a wood stove in our home and had no issues with the installation process. Where Should the Stove Go? From there, transfer the measurements to the ceiling and mark where the pipe will go.
Pilot Hole and Tracing Drill a pilot hole from the center of the drywall where you marked where the pipe will go through the ceiling.
Cut the hole for the area you traced on the ceiling. Once the insulation is removed, you should be able to see straight through.
Install Chimney Support Kit Our chimney kit came with a chimney support kit. Install Flashing Flashing is interesting to install because part of it has to be under the shingles on the roof and part should be on top. The other half of the flashing should still be loose on top of the roof.
Put Chimney Together with Flashing Begin to interlock the chimney inside the flashing. Use roofing nails to secure the rest of the flashing.
Install the chimney cap and spark arrestor once the chimney is in place. Once you have the measurements for the pipe to fit accurately, cut, and slide into place. Light Test Fire At this point, your wood burning stove installation is done. Was this article helpful?
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