Steve Slatter | 18" Clean Air Elm stove @slatterbench70 | Uploaded June 2011 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
The owner of this Elm requested that it give off less heat than it normally would. They have a central wood fired boiler to heat the house. This stove is used to heat just a couple of rooms. One way to keep the heat level lower is to burn smaller fires with less wood and less air from the butterfly damper in the door. Another way is to build it without the secondary air tubes, which is what I did here. It is still a step up from the previous stove on the hearth. They have been using a 1976 Elm, which is from the first year of production. That stove lacks a secondary system, and also does not have a firebox baffle. It is coming in for a complete make-over, and will be used in a cabin in Maine, once it is brought up to date after all those years of service.
The owner of this Elm requested that it give off less heat than it normally would. They have a central wood fired boiler to heat the house. This stove is used to heat just a couple of rooms. One way to keep the heat level lower is to burn smaller fires with less wood and less air from the butterfly damper in the door. Another way is to build it without the secondary air tubes, which is what I did here. It is still a step up from the previous stove on the hearth. They have been using a 1976 Elm, which is from the first year of production. That stove lacks a secondary system, and also does not have a firebox baffle. It is coming in for a complete make-over, and will be used in a cabin in Maine, once it is brought up to date after all those years of service.
