01-15-2014, 11:06 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 2,187
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Re: Building my first yurt
Ryan, I knew zilch about my used wood stove, or the stove pipe necessary for a safe installation, when I set up my stove last summer. I knew the roof ring and cover were combustibles, and the combustibles chart on the side of my stove gave minimum clearances that I didn't have up at the roof ring. In fact they were about half the minimum.
After checking with a few local and online businesses, I went with a 'rated', high grade, single wall pipe, that I made into a double wall pipe about three feet above the wood stove, by adding a second 8" pipe surrounding the 6". I've felt around and checked the temp up there with the stove running wide open, and it is safe with double wall pipe. Single wall would be out of the question. WAY too hot!
I gotta tell you that considering just how hot the single wall pipe gets the first few feet above my stove (before doubled), and the heat POURING off that pipe, and the red glow, the pics of Mongolians that seemingly have a single wall pipe poking up through the roof blows my mind.
I'm guessing you've seen the same 'google- images' pics of single pipe poking up out of Mongolian yurts as I have? FORGET IT! Use a double wall pipe, at minimum. Make CERTAIN you use a 'rated' stove ppie and NO OTHER! And, run it AT LEAST two feet above the roof ring, and install a spark arrestor to boot. Mine extends up almost three feet. Raellym, tghere's no poiny in messing around to sayve a few bucks. On this one detail- FORGET what it looks like the Monglians do.
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