New wood stove adventures, cost and who out there burn pallet wood?

[Maritime]

Check with your insurance company before installing a wood stove in the garage...I just had to remove mine, (in Maine), after having it for four years. Would not have known if a friend told me that it was "illegal", called my agent, said no wood heaters in garages were allowed, asked about pellet stoves, and he said that they were looking at them, but as of now, you could not have one of those either. If there had been a fire, I would have not been insured....by the way, torches, welders, grinders, they all were ok.

LOL there is some logic. lets not allow a sealed box to safely burn wood and heat, but lets allow a bunch of tools that make sparks in a place with oil and gas to blow up

 

[irk miller]

TC, it's not a garage it's a shop or studio. Put a bathroom in it and change the designation of the space. Also 4eyes, the caveat with burning green wood is it tars up the stack much more with creosote. Condensation causes creosote buildup as the flue temperature is much cooler. You lose roughly 50 -60% of the wood energy burning it green. In wood kilns, we always go with seasoned wood and interchange between hardwoods and softwoods. We're looking for roughly 300,000 btu's and getting the kiln to well above 2400 degrees, so it's really important to get the most out of the wood. There is a general impression that pine, fur and similar soft woods produce more creosote, but they actually produce much less than hardwoods because they burn so much hotter and maintain hotter flue temperatures.

 

[Maritime]

TC, it's not a garage it's a shop or studio. Put a bathroom in it and change the designation of the space. Also 4eyes, the caveat with burning green wood is it tars up the stack much more with creosote. Condensation causes creosote buildup as the flue temperature is much cooler. You lose roughly 50 -60% of the wood energy burning it green. In wood kilns, we always go with seasoned wood and interchange between hardwoods and softwoods. We're looking for roughly 300,000 btu's and getting the kiln to well above 2400 degrees, so it's really important to get the most out of the wood. There is a general impression that pine, fur and similar soft woods produce more creosote, but they actually produce much less than hardwoods because they burn so much hotter and maintain hotter flue temperatures.

SO long as they are seasoned and not green. Green softwood produces a ton of creosote. I use seasoned softwood to get the fire going then pile in the seasoned hardwood for a longer lasting burn. Green wood is really dangerous in our climate because of the -30 days cooling the chimney and then you light a new fire and the creosote catches and you have a flu/chimney fire and there goes your house!

 

[irk miller]

SO long as they are seasoned and not green. Green softwood produces a ton of creosote.

Yep. Any green wood produces more creosote. It's the colder flue temps that cause buildup from condensation.


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[TC]

Ehhhh.... I do not have the capital to play word games with the insurance company.

 

[Drey6]

That is some assbackwards logic. I'm not going to remove the stove for insurance reasons at this point. It's plenty safe.
See, here is a pic from the other day.