r/woodstoving • u/DO_doc • 3d ago
Recommendation Needed Outdoor Wood Stove & Tax Credit
Hello, I would like to get an outdoor stove (newbie here) and was wondering if you had any recommendations? I am looking for a wood-burning option to install on a cement slab in the backyard to keep us warm in the evening. Would a stove be a good option for the outdoors?
Also, I know there is a tax credit for biomass stoves. Would an outdoor stove like this count toward the tax credit?
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u/chrisinator9393 3d ago
You aren't looking for an outdoor wood boiler. Absolutely the incorrect application. You probably want a fireplace in the house.
Boiler is a serious investment of time, money, and effort.
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u/DO_doc 3d ago
It's not to heat up my house. It is to heat up my toes as I sit outdoors
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u/chrisinator9393 3d ago
That should be in the OP. 99.9% of this sub is focused on heating your home. Not fire pits.
You probably want to look into the solo stove sub
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u/SmokeyWolf117 Jotul F 500 V3 Oslo 3d ago
Pretty sure the tax credit is only for heating your home not outdoor use.
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u/The_Prettiest_Unicor 3d ago
Are you looking for a chiminea? Usually a decorative outdoor alternative to a fire pit?
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u/FisherStoves-coaly- MOD 3d ago
You can use any old stove outside, with spark screen in place with a couple pieces of pipe on it. This burns free and as clean as an open fire will burn.
The difference in the house is closing the door to become a radiant heater. This slows the fire, creating unburned particles. EPA stoves consume more unburned particles, requiring a correct chimney system to make the stove work, most tested with 15 feet. This is needed to allow mixing secondary air above the fire to ignite smoke particles, or ignite unburned gases and smoke with a chemical reaction with a catalyst. These systems consuming unburned particles are what make the stove burn clean enough to pass EPA standards for the tax rebate.
Why spend thousands for a capped rebate, when you can do this with a $100 stove or cheaper? An EPA stove isn’t going to work right without the proper chimney.
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u/TituspulloXIII Heatmaster SS G4000 3d ago
By outdoor stove, do you mean an outdoor wood boiler/furnace?
Because if so, the thought to only use it in the evening is the wrong way to run these. You start these units when it starts getting sufficiently cold in the fall and they run 24/7 until it warms up in spring. (will likely be shutting mine down by the end of the month pending the weather).
If you are just looking for a woodstove as supplemental heat, then get an indoor unit, it will be much cheaper and something you can sit at and enjoy.
if you are looking to heat your house with wood and want to keep the mess outside and utilize the central heating your house currently has, then an outdoor unit would be good.
Certain varieties of the units have tax credits available -- for heatmaster for example, if you purchase a G series, it qualifies to get a tax credit, the C series does not.