OT - another project complete

[Doc B]

After 27 years without a fireplace or woodstove we have decided to gift one to each other this Xmas. Just got the hearthpad finished after work and the stove gets put in Friday. Yipee, no more freezing when the power goes out!

 

[Ferrous Bueller]

Are the 2 back walls going to be lined with some type of heat resistant material ?

 

[Paul Joppa]

Looks like a pad for a Klipschorn.  :^)

 

[Doc B]

Are the 2 back walls going to be lined with some type of heat resistant material ?

Nope, not needed with the stove we are installing. They line them with refractory ceramic fiber that insulates and reflects the heat. The stuff is awesome, I modified the combustion chamber in our old oil furnace with it last year. There used to be a youtube of a guy draping some over his bare arm and blasting it with a propane torch, but I think maybe it was removed.

 

[Hank Murrow]

That's the same stuff the Shuttles used as a re-entry shield. My kilns use it as a lining; and 6" of it reduces the 2400F inside temp to 225F on the outside___ pics attached.  Cheers, Hank

 

[mcandmar]

Amazing stuff..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9Yax8UNoM

 

[Karl5150]

My BH system sits on a rack in an alcove where there used to be an unused fireplace. Not needed here in So.Cal.Good luck.

 

[Doc B]

Well, there you go. My fireplace will sit where there used to be a Bottlehead system.

 

[Paul Birkeland]

That's some nice looking maple around the edges!

 

[Ferrous Bueller]

Nope, not needed with the stove we are installing. They line them with refractory ceramic fiber that insulates and reflects the heat. The stuff is awesome, I modified the combustion chamber in our old oil furnace with it last year. There used to be a youtube of a guy draping some over his bare arm and blasting it with a propane torch, but I think maybe it was removed.

That is pretty impressive.  Is it a pellet fed or manual fed?

My buddy put a pot-belly stove in his house years ago and it really put out the heat.  I wish my useless fireplace had that thermal ability.

 

[Doc B]

Though it isn't as cost effective as a pellet stove, I did a standard wood burner. In my early years we had two really nice fireplaces in a house my uncle built. After that I lived in apartments and eventually this fire-less house (we do have a big fire pit in the front yard, but it's not too useful in the winter). I had a strong urge to see the crackling logs again.

The stove is an Ironstrike Striker 160. Nothing super fancy but very clean burning a pretty efficient. New woodstoves are a lot more technically sophisticated than the 20 or 30 year old ones I am used to. The draft is awesome and you can easily get a burn that just shows steam coming out of the chimney. The 10 foot high doublewall stainless chimney poking out of our mossy, steeply pitched old roof cost a bundle and looks like an alien presence. The installer said, "it's a statement"

 

[2wo]

I went with a pellet stove, a Harman Accentra. It is a great stove and other then filling it and cleaning it occasionally, it is completely automatic. The deciding factor was the chimney would cost more then the wood stoves I was looking at, The pellet vent was $35. The down side is it has a fair amount of fan noise, about like a window air conditioner but it paid for itself in oil savings in less then 3 years and the cats love it...John