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woodstove in yurt

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mama23

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Hi all

we put up our yurt in the spring & are now getting ready for fall/winter.

I was gifted a woodstove - about 30 years old, but barely used in a condo of old folks. from denmark.

planning on putting it in the yurt, but don't know a lot about wood stoves. I've been over on the hearth.com site & can't find much out about it other than it is probably a hwam.

any thoughts/concerns you could see in installing in our 24' pacific yurt?

thx.
 
I haven't yet because it really has not been cold enough to do a good test. I can say that we did use it last weekend and it cooked us. I had to open the dome lol. It was only 40 degrees out though.
 
It's juuust about nippy enough at night to fire the stove. Right after halloween is the usual start of yurt heating for me at 6500 feet.
 
We are heading up to the yurt for three nights today. It is supposed to get into the 30's, so we will definitely be trying out the stove!
 
We have a vintage cast iron stove in our yurt and so far we've been happy with it. This winter will show us if it's really enough.
 
I have a question about a chimney. How do you make a hole in the wall for it. How far should it be from the wall? Can someone share plans and pictures of existing set up?

Kochevnik
 
My stove did pretty good, though I had to reload it a little at about 4 am (7 hours later). I am still getting used to it I think. We will be down into the 20's this weekend and I plan on really putting it through a test.
 
Glad I found this thread. I've been wondering about installing a wood stove in my yurt. I'm just afraid of catching the yurt on fire. That would not be good!
 
It's very unlikely you would set the yurt on fire with the wood stove, ASSUMING you follow basic common sense installation guidelines. Set the stove atop non combustible material that extends a minimum of a foot around the stove's footprint. Keep 18" in front of door for embers to fall out.

Set the stove the recommended setback from combustibles. The plate mounted on your stove will have the numbers. Install a 'rated' double wall pipe through the ring or wall. Make certain the pipe stack is guyed out of anchored. Install an ember arrest or atop the stack. Also a rain cap atop the stack will prevent flooding into the stove. USe fire rated covering. Don't over fire the stove. Etc.
 
Bob Rowlands said:
It's very unlikely you would set the yurt on fire with the wood stove, ASSUMING you follow basic common sense installation guidelines. Set the stove atop non combustible material that extends a minimum of a foot around the stove's footprint. Keep 18" in front of door for embers to fall out.

Set the stove the recommended setback from combustibles. The plate mounted on your stove will have the numbers. Install a 'rated' double wall pipe through the ring or wall. Make certain the pipe stack is guyed out of anchored. Install an ember arrest or atop the stack. Also a rain cap atop the stack will prevent flooding into the stove. USe fire rated covering. Don't over fire the stove. Etc.
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Thanks for the helpful info. Running the pipe through the wall is the part that makes me the most nervous. But, I've seen it done before so I'm sure I can do it too.
 
I like the center location, because it gives a radial dispersion of heat from the stove itself all up the pipe. And I plan a dual purpose stove, or multi, heating water, some cooking and heating.

There is a wealth of good woodstoves now, more then I ever remembered being.
 
The centrally paced wood stove just feels right to me. It follows tradition. Well before there were wood stoves in yurts, there must have been fires in the middle. People naturally gather around a fire in circular fashion, whether around camp or in any round shelter. The camaraderie of family and friends relaxing around a fire is one of the roots of happiness.
 
It hasn't been all that long since people gathered around a tipi fire, and people in Mongolia gather around stoves in their yurts even as we write.
 
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