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[Stephanie Colombo <st.colombo AT gmail.com>]

I am currently a tenent at a ramshackle but lovely cabin in the woods on the edge of someone's property. The cabin was built by someone else in a loft model with two floors and a skylight/attic. It has a few started if left unfinished ammenitites. The most daunting task will be to fix the woodstove which is not yet functioning. The base of the stove is there, the box rusty and there is no flue/stove pipe. There is hole cut through to the 2nd floor and a place to cut through the aluminum roof for the chimney to exit. My primary questions are:

 

- how rusty can a woods stove be to still be usable?

- can the stovepipe/flue be built of found piping metals or must the metals be a galvanized steel or some particular grade of metal?

- how can one make a double-layered chimney flue?

- how far should all burnable materials be from the edge of the stovepipe?

- how hot can a stovepipe get and what are the exploding hazards?

 

I thought it would be a lofty (pun intended) but fun fix up to try and make livable in the winter. I really don't think I'll live in the winter, but I would like to get through October potentially. Is there a way to make this workable, or create another heat source that makes this a place that can be slept in?

 

Any chimney or wood stove people in the house?

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Sincerely,

Stephanie Colombo
321-331-3719