Wood shop heating with wood

Before you do anything talk to your insurance people. You may find even with an approved and inspected installation a rate increase will be applied. Billh

There are also wood "furnaces" which fall into another insurance category. Some are freestanding outside units located away from the premises, so you don't have the dirt or the danger.

If you are a commercial operation, insurance costs are an expense of doing business, of course.

I know the ones you mean. They are outside with a short stack and everyone around the damn thing chokes on the smoke that never gets very high off the ground. Should be banned unless there is a few hundred acres of free space around it. Billh

Or a taller pipe installed.

Those cheesy "waterstoves" have been restricted in Vermont, for exactly that reason, with more or less that restriction (expressed as minimum setbacks and chimney-height restrictions, plus some additional restrictions based on air movement in valleys). However, there are _also_ actual, clean-burning, non-smouldering furnaces, which could be installed inside, that can also be installed in a separate outbuilding (keeping the fire out of the shop), and because they are are actual clean-burning furnaces, are treated differently by the air-pollution laws. Not at all incidentally, they give you more heat from the same wood, becasue they actually burn the wood.

check out hydrofire.com it's an outside wood furnace. i have one and heat my shop, dry kiln house and all my domestic hot water. works great