http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/ Discussion of home heating with firewood Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:28:41 GMT Louis Charles http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20785 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20785 Thank you. Now... it seems my questions a week or so back, in regard to sending the flue-pipe out a window, then up the side of your building is doable, no?  Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:21:47 GMT yahoogroups@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20784 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20784 Generically called tile backer board or cement board it most usually comes in 3? x 5? sheets. Durock is a popular brand. gggGary Charles: Is the name of Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:55:06 GMT Louis Charles http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20783 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20783 Charles: Is the name of that material really "concrete backerboard"?  If I go into Home Depot or Lowe's and ask for it, they will know what I am talking Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16:44 GMT yahoogroups@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20782 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20782 I went through a lot of similar searching when I did my stove installs. This is all IMHO A couple of the technical points the code is concerned with are; Air Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:05:28 GMT charles malone http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20781 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20781 my stack goes out a basement window(glass removed and replaced with concrete backerboard) my stack is only about 7 inches from the ceiling, so i hung a sheet Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:21:35 GMT artcheologist http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20780 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20780 Thanks Cal, I had seen this page and noticed the significantly greater reduction than in the manufacturers charts. The biggest thing I can't find an answer to Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:51:01 GMT ROBERT BELFER http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20779 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20779 Check your local codes. Not sure, but from memory, the max that NFPA 211 will allow is 66% which would get you down to seven inches. ... From: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:42:40 GMT wood@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20778 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20778 Yes let's keep it civilized here. You said "For example, they show that by adding a shield of noncombustible material with a 1" air gap I can reduce the side Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46:49 GMT artcheologist http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20777 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20777 Jeez! Calm down Rich. There's no need to start calling people names. If you'd read my post more carefully, you'd have noticed I specifically said I was NOT Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:24 GMT Rich http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20776 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20776 Brian , you can do whatever you want and glibbly claim exemption because you have a different view of Vermont, but simple facts are easy even for you to Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:26:38 GMT Patricia Mansfield-Devine http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20775 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20775 ... Have you considered building a brick chimney in and having an insert instead of a woodstove? Inserts are insulated inside with rockwool or similar, and get Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:07:54 GMT artcheologist http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20774 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20774 Fortunately, since I live in Vermont, the laws of man don't really apply. However, the far more precise and less malleable laws of physics still reign supreme. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:01:25 GMT samiamrd http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20773 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20773 Follow the instructions in the manual. Safety needs to be the number 1 concern. Keep the clearences at the range listed in the manual because if you have a Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:33:53 GMT hallgang@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20772 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20772 artcheologist wrote: need to reduce the stove clearances as much as possible. The stove is small, a Jotul F 602 CB, their smallest model but the company very Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:56 GMT yahoogroups@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20771 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/woodheat/message/20771 13" is a very small clearance. Nothing you can do would legally reduce it further. As you are finding out wood stoves take up quite a bit of space. It would