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Wood shop heating with wood
Do any of you heat your shops with woodburning stoves? Have you been able to
have these certified for insurance purposes? If so, what are the requirements? |
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Errol Caldwell wrote:
Do any of you heat your shops with woodburning stoves? Have you been able to have these certified for insurance purposes? If so, what are the requirements? In Canada, any new woodstove should have a ULC plate on the back. You may also need to have it installed by a WETT certified technician. It is not just the stove you need to worry about, but the whole installation, especially setbacks. Your local dealer or building inspector should be able to help with all that. I can't recall if those specs are federal or provinicial. If you have an old stove, my guess is that getting it certified may be expensive. I had a real battle with my insurers when I built my studio, but they gave in in the end. Good luck! -- Derek Andrews, woodturner http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com http://chipshop.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toolrest/ |
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Before you do anything talk to your insurance people. You may find even with
an approved and inspected installation a rate increase will be applied. Billh "Errol Caldwell" wrote in message .. . Do any of you heat your shops with woodburning stoves? Have you been able to have these certified for insurance purposes? If so, what are the requirements? |
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"billh" wrote in message .. . Before you do anything talk to your insurance people. You may find even with an approved and inspected installation a rate increase will be applied. Billh "Errol Caldwell" wrote in message .. . Do any of you heat your shops with woodburning stoves? Have you been able to have these certified for insurance purposes? If so, what are the requirements? There are also wood "furnaces" which fall into another insurance category. Some are freestanding outside units located away from the premises, so you don't have the dirt or the danger. If you are a commercial operation, insurance costs are an expense of doing business, of course. |
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"George" george@least wrote in message ... "billh" wrote in message .. . Before you do anything talk to your insurance people. You may find even with an approved and inspected installation a rate increase will be applied. Billh "Errol Caldwell" wrote in message .. . Do any of you heat your shops with woodburning stoves? Have you been able to have these certified for insurance purposes? If so, what are the requirements? There are also wood "furnaces" which fall into another insurance category. Some are freestanding outside units located away from the premises, so you don't have the dirt or the danger. If you are a commercial operation, insurance costs are an expense of doing business, of course. I know the ones you mean. They are outside with a short stack and everyone around the damn thing chokes on the smoke that never gets very high off the ground. Should be banned unless there is a few hundred acres of free space around it. Billh |
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"billh" wrote in message .. . There are also wood "furnaces" which fall into another insurance category. Some are freestanding outside units located away from the premises, so you don't have the dirt or the danger. If you are a commercial operation, insurance costs are an expense of doing business, of course. I know the ones you mean. They are outside with a short stack and everyone around the damn thing chokes on the smoke that never gets very high off the ground. Should be banned unless there is a few hundred acres of free space around it. Billh Or a taller pipe installed. |
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"billh" wrote: I know the ones you mean. They are outside with a short stack and everyone around the damn thing chokes on the smoke that never gets very high off the ground. Should be banned unless there is a few hundred acres of free space around it. Billh Those cheesy "waterstoves" have been restricted in Vermont, for exactly that reason, with more or less that restriction (expressed as minimum setbacks and chimney-height restrictions, plus some additional restrictions based on air movement in valleys). However, there are _also_ actual, clean-burning, non-smouldering furnaces, which could be installed inside, that can also be installed in a separate outbuilding (keeping the fire out of the shop), and because they are are actual clean-burning furnaces, are treated differently by the air-pollution laws. Not at all incidentally, they give you more heat from the same wood, becasue they actually burn the wood. -- Cats, Coffee, Chocolate...vices to live by |
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check out hydrofire.com it's an outside wood furnace. i have one and
heat my shop, dry kiln house and all my domestic hot water. works great |
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