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We'll be picking up the keys to our new house shortly and the house comes with a 3m x 2m garden shed. The plan is to put patio doors on the front, insulate it and put in a small wood burner to utilise as a small garden office.
Other than cutting hole in roof and flashing around aperture, plonking stove on a hearth (slate?) and ensuring minimum stand off between stove and flammable wall - is there anything else to consider?
Also, what size of stove should I be looking at? 3kW?
I have a spark arrestor fitted to the top of the flue for my frontier stove, prevents sparks flying outt he top of the flue and setting fire to anything. Apparently though, a couple of holes drilled in the flue cause the updraught to suck in air causing the sparks to burn themselves out before leaving the flue. But, as it's in a tent and used on camp sites I went with the arrestor (was only about £15)
Also, when I first used it, I put roofing slates under each of the feet and that seemed fine but now I've got a heat mat, largely to catch ash and bits of crap. If yours isn't moving, slate will do.
The frontier works well enough, but is all metal so no glass door which means no viewing of the fire, which is a shame.
I would line the wall nearest the fire too.
I used Hardiebacker board (which is fire retardant) around my shed stove, and then tiled over the top of it.
~10x6? thats a tiny space to heat and you'll use a lot of it up with the burner and space around.
I'd just use a small oil filled radiator.
~10x6? thats a tiny space to heat and you'll use a lot of it up with the burner and space around.I'd just use a small oil filled radiator.
It is a small space, but there's nowt so nice as a stove.
Search for miniature stoves on ebay.
There are a lot that are just made out of 4" box section that would be good in a small space I'd have thought.
CO alarm.
Don't do what I did and buy one that's too big. I thought it would be fine and I could just leave it ticking over most most burns, but it doesn't seem to work like that. I would have been better off with a smaller one and backed it up with an oil filled radiator when it's really cold.
~10x6? thats a tiny space to heat and you'll use a lot of it up with the burner and space around.
Mine is in a 12x10 part glazed summer house sort of thing I built. I couldn't work out where best to put the stove as not only does it take up room but then there's all the space you need around it. My brother made a great suggestion which was to build a half height "extension" out of one end and put the stove in there, which we did. We made wooden two skin walls and a tin roof skinned on the inside with some 2mm alloy sheet at about 35 degrees to both shoot the water off and the heat in. It seems to work very well, it also means you can make a suitable section for the flue to pass through rather than trying to modify a shed roof.
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Might be less hassle to go out through the wall then up the outside on an existing shed.