Backwards installation quirk
A
friend of mine asked me nicely while actually scratching his head why I
decided to install the Jotul woodstove "backwards".
"Most folks start with the
stove and then install the pipe on top of each other".
That does make a lot of
sense, but jacking
the stove into the pipe
lets you slowly connect the pieces together, which require a bit of
adjusting to get fully seated, and taking this process a centimeter at
a time really decreases the grunt factor.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I agree that the idea of jacking the stove into place is counter-intuitive, but as long as the base is solid (and not very high) and the stove is firmly planted on it, it shouldn't be anything but warm and cozy.
Comment by
vester
— Sat Jan 29 18:21:31 2011
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Up on blocks
Adding a little height has turned out to be a good thing. It's nice to be able to just lean forward out of my chair to feed the stove rather than getting down on the floor.
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anna
— Sun Jan 30 15:20:48 2011
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