So here's my Regency
hearth mount stove,
and it sits in front of this
little old Victorian fireplace
that I've added the beautiful facade to.
So the Regency stove
is burning perfectly here,
It's an EPA stove,
which means it reburns it's own smoke
as you can see there.
It's, it smokes up a little bit
and then it catches fire on the hot baffle.
on the baffle up top there,
a hot piece of metal,
that when the smoke touches it,
it reburns.
It's burning right now
at 297 degrees fahrenheit
on the flue pipe,
the liner pipe.
On top of the stove it says
what's it saying there?
500 degrees on the stove top.
That's a stove top thermometer,
which shows two ranges.
The short range on the bottom
is for the stove pipe,
and the other range in the,
the tall range on the outside
is for the stove top
because the stove top is
harder than the, or hotter than the pipe.
So this is the pipe here,
298,
and it's a stainless steel liner.
That's a remote thermometer.
We had a huge problem with this stove.
We couldn't use it for
a good number of years,
because every time we'd use it, all the
the heat would go up the chimney,
and cause a problem in the chimney with
overheating or smell, mostly smell.
It wasn't really a chimney fire.
It was just, unable to slow it down,
the fire down enough,
and what I found today
was that there,
although the gasket looked good,
it was dried out,
and the part between there,
you could see through it.
And today I stopped that,
and because this is such a high
house, there's 35 feet of liner on it,
we also have in there,
we have a key damper,
which I've closed totally.
It's a very windy day outside,
Now it's a five inch key damper
in a six inch liner,
so if it doesn't close it perfectly
but it does slow that huge draft down
from a 35 foot liner.
And as you can see,
it's running perfectly,
300 degrees,
is a nice heat.
This'll heat the house all day.
The firewood doesn't burn too quickly.
And the whole, it'll, we have about a
25 or 2800 square foot house,
and it'll heat the whole thing.
Hearthmount stoves are
a bit nicer than inserts
because they have the whole stove
sitting out of the fireplace.
where you get more heat from
all these areas,
and you could also cook on that
if you wish.
My wife's a chef,
and she also wants
to have the option of cooking
on a wood stove,
although it doesn't happen very often
because she's got a restaurant
type kitchen.
So that's our
high draft chimney problem solved
by fixing the door gasket,
and putting in the key damper.
I'll show you the outside here,
So the fire, wood stove is on that level,
and it goes through one floor,
it goes through a very tall attic,
and comes out the top,
which is 35 feet above,
well it's actually 35 feet of liner in here.
I measured it when we put it in.
It's insulated liner,
so it's even more prone to high draft
which is why we put the
key damper in,
and it's why it's more necessary
to have a good gasket.
So, that's our heater,
solved the problem of too much draft,
and now we have no problem.
We just got a lot of heat
out of a bunch of scrap wood.
Closed Captioning by Kris Brandhagen. brandhagen@gmail.com