[Greenbuilding] Advice on Zero-clearance wood stoves

[RONALD CASCIO]

Beyond the building inspector, you also need to deal with the homeowners 
insurance agent. They are sometimes more difficult to deal with than the 
dreaded BI.

Ron Cascio


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Corwyn" <corwyn at midcoast.com>
To: "Kathy Cochran" <kathys_old_house at goldrush.com>
Cc: <greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Advice on Zero-clearance wood stoves


>
> On Jan 20, 2008, at 23:12, Kathy Cochran wrote:
>
>>
>> I am trying to bring back to life a charming old house built in 1940.
>>
>> My south-facing living room wall is 20ft long.  2 low-E French doors,
>> which
>> take out 12 ft = 8', less 30' more on either end of the wall leaves
>> only 66"
>> between the French doors to put a wood stove.  Calaveras County
>> Building
>> Department says they would like to have 36" from the edge of the stove
>> to
>> the wood framed door jambs, which obviously is impossible in this
>> situation,
>
> 36"?!  That is huge.  stove manufacturer's specs seem to be in the
> 12-16" range for that dimension.
>
> Although many stoves have optional rear heat shields, I don't remember
> seeing any with side heat shields (doesn't mean they don't exist).
>
> You can possibly get around the requirement by replacing the trim with
> something similar in a noncombustible version.  (or just removing the
> trim all together?)
>
> You can (again possibly) put a heat shield on the trim rather than on
> the stove.
>
>> UNLESS I can find a super-efficiently designed stove which will allow
>> me to
>> bypass this requirement.  Any suggestions for brand names to look into
>>  ??
>
> You will need to talk with your building department, as to what they
> require.
>
> With a requirement like that I would expect massive resistance to any
> alternatives you might try.  It sounds to me like they are trying to
> regulate wood-stoves into extinction.
>
> I don't know of any zero-clearance wood-stoves, and wouldn't buy it if
> I found one.  The _purpose_ of a wood-stove is to get hot.  It would be
> useless if it didn't.
>
>
> Thank You Kindly,
>
> Corwyn
>
>
> -- 
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>
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