Legality of Pellet Stove
Hi, my friend has this pellet stove in his NJ house. It has pellet hopper, automatic everything and vent straight though the rear wall. How legal is to install similar stove in Brooklyn? The side of my house overlooks neighbors backyard. So I would vent it though the wall into backyard. Or I can run…
Hi, my friend has this pellet stove in his NJ house. It has pellet hopper, automatic everything and vent straight though the rear wall.
How legal is to install similar stove in Brooklyn? The side of my house overlooks neighbors backyard. So I would vent it though the wall into backyard. Or I can run chimney up the wall over the roof of the house.
bobjohn,
I say take a close look at morso wood burning free standing or inserts. New level of efficiency which effectively should shut up all the naysayers’ complaints about burning wood. Competitive with pellet fuel now.
Just to explain – I am not looking for the primary source of heating. More for a clean, safe and low maintainable fireplace for decorative purposes but with the smell of firewood and not the NG or Alcohol Gel 🙂
what looks and works well in some country house may not be such a great idea here.
Get intense heat near the stove but other floors, separate rooms gonna end up being colder.
I think is dumb idea, waste of money and novelty will wear thin pretty quickly.
I lived with one of these for a winter… as the primary source of heat. The storage of the bags o’ pellets is definitely something to consider. We went through a whole bag a day… so you actually by the TON — 50 forty-pound bags.
That said. It’s very clean. Uses scrap wood/sawdust.
Good Luck!
Pellet availability has gotten better, but still might have issues finding supply mid winter. Need a lot of space to store adequate supply for whole winter if you are using for a source of heat. Something to consider.
These things are loud, I removed the one that had been installed (illegally) in my apartment. I got tired of the “rrrrrrmmmmrrrmmmm” every 7 seconds, as the thing feeds pellets to the fire.
“Probably the architects can clarify this later.” – not sure why. You seem to have done it just fine.
– one of “the architects”
Re: the code and proper chimney venting, it does need to be a certain number of feet above adjacent roof lines and a certain number of feet from any windows and I believe vent pipes too. Whether or not your neighbor will allow you to vent it directly into his yard would be a different story but certainly wouldn’t comply with code.
Probably the architects can clarify this later.
In addition to complying with all the codes for chimneys (window and roof clearances) , you would also need an easement from your neighbors to run it above their property line in their yard (if that’s actually what you are describing). This can be easy or onerous depending on the neighbors. The owner of a soon-to-be restaurant in the building that abutts the side of my yard asked to do the same thing and was offering monetary compensation, to which I readily agreed to.
Technically, the easement would be granted legally through new surveys and deeds but, until one of the properties is sold, it needn’t really be formalized to that extent.