Workshop Stoves now winter's here

[gavztheouch]

Nice stove. I am living in a static caravan right now and I'm trying to install a wood burner inside. I'm going with one length of single skin and then onto double insulated. How tall did you make your flue?

[magicniner]

I have an oil filled electric job with the thermostat set as low as it will go and still come on now & again, the first frosty morning has confirmed the worth of insulation and boarding out ;-)

- Nick

[EddyCurrent]

Nice stove. I am living in a static caravan right now and I'm trying to install a wood burner inside. I'm going with one length of single skin and then onto double insulated. How tall did you make your flue?

3 metres + height of stove + cowl. It could do with another 1/2 metre though just to clear the roof ridge.

[Blackrat]

Eddy ...

fancy doing a rough sketch of a burner ? :D

[EddyCurrent]

Eddy ...

fancy doing a rough sketch of a burner ? :D

I could but it would be improper, I will though give this link for a similar but more expensive stove that describes the things you need to know; http://www.workshopstoves.co.uk/Oakf...shop-stove.asp
It talks about a tube that goes nearly to the bottom of the fire so that intake air comes in at the bottom and blows up through the fuel to the chimney. The flap at the top of this tube is the 'throttle'

[gavztheouch]

3 metres + height of stove + cowl. It could do with another 1/2 metre though just to clear the roof ridge.

Great I have 3m of flue so I should be ok. I think the recommend minimum on any stove is over 4m.

[EddyCurrent]

Also it's a 5" pipe and the 'draw' is strong so that I have to run it on 1/2 throttle otherwise it would melt.

[Blackrat]

im just interested in how it burns the sawdust .... as that link you sent mentions, the stove can overheat if the sawdust isnt compressed first ..

[Clive S]

Didn't it say shavings have to be pressed down? ..Clive

[vargai]

me interested too how it works-a friend of mine have more then enough big bag with dust and simply put it into a furnace originally design for straw bale -looking for other option
Have you got sketch or section with principle?
Edit: I left some post -already see the link, thanks