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Post by roly on May 17, 2022 4:26:10 GMT -5
How far off the floor is the bottom of the door of your stove?
Our stove is on stilts and the bottom of the door is 35" off the floor.
Certainly makes things easier for me.
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Post by Leftee on May 17, 2022 5:35:39 GMT -5
I have a small wood stove in my shop. The bottom of the door is maybe 18” from the floor. I have a chair that I sit in to stoke/tend the fire.
The stove is so small that I can’t fit full-sized firewood in it. Maybe 15” pieces at best.
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Post by modbus on May 17, 2022 8:00:52 GMT -5
17 inches.
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Post by rickyguitar on May 17, 2022 8:12:31 GMT -5
Currently we have an insert, sits inside the fireplace. In the last maybe 14 -16 inches.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on May 17, 2022 9:16:31 GMT -5
I don't have a woodstove but I had a dream last night that I was (unsuccessfully) trying to light a fire in one, which is really odd.
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Post by Leftee on May 17, 2022 9:30:54 GMT -5
I don't have a woodstove but I had a dream last night that I was (unsuccessfully) trying to light a fire in one, which is really odd. Weird. I smelled burnt matches. |
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Post by hushnel on May 17, 2022 12:08:57 GMT -5
My Arctic Box stove is 10” from bottom to floor, I have wood floors in the late 1800s home, I put fire proof ceramic tile slabs underneath the stove. They don’t get hot. The slabs are oversized and can catch any thing that may fall out of the stove, though that has never happened. I’ve used these stoves in the past, this one for about 10 years now. I also have asbestos wall panel on the two closest walls, the closest wall is 18”, it doesn’t get hot either.
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Post by michael on May 17, 2022 19:46:27 GMT -5
i have an ASHLEY type jacketed wood/coal furnace with a thermostatic controlled damper system. i bought it from Sears 30 years ago when we moved to the farm. it's a 3rd string backup. i can't see how far above the floor the firebox is but it's not too far, maybe 8" or 10"... maybe? it sets on a big stove board ontop of concrete floor... it has a lid that is vented, but i can raise it and there's a cook top. i put a return air duct right above it so when/if we use it, i can turn the furnace fan on and circulate heat.
it doesn't get used... it's the 3rd backup. i put a big set of propane logs in the tv room fireplace in the basement. we spend most of the time there. the heat from the logs keep the house in the 70's until the outside temps get into the low 20's and the heat pump starts kicking in.
with the cost of propane and electricity rising so much, i may put the wood stove into service.
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Post by reverendrob on May 17, 2022 22:02:44 GMT -5
Will have to check, but MAYBE 16" total (another couple inches for the fiberglass/tile/whatevertheheck the 'no catch fire pad" it's on is)
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Post by roly on May 18, 2022 1:26:30 GMT -5
"I have an ASHLEY type jacketed wood/coal furnace with a thermostatic controlled damper system." Our damper is also thermostat controlled. The wood and oil furnaces are in line, and each source has it's own thermostat. When the oil furnace kicks in, it overrides the wood thermostat and the damper closes. i.postimg.cc/Kz1x8HKx/Stove.jpg |
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Post by roly on May 18, 2022 1:27:15 GMT -5
Oh....that's a 4' level in the picture.
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