Construction

For the past two off rotations in Marks work schedule he has been tirelessly working on SweetHaven remodelling the area where the wood stove will be put. The two pictures above are the before pictures and I do have to admit right now they look much better than they currently are, but we are still a work in progress. The space we are working on is where the counter is on the starboard side, across from the galley, where the drop in fridge is.

So we ripped out the whole cabinet where the fridge was, that fridge did not work and it took up way too much space, when we did rip it out all the foam insulation so behind it was moldy so I'm glad we did get rid of it. As much as we like having more space there we obviously needed to repurpose that area as efficiently as possible and since we are installing a proper fridge actually in the galley area we decided the best use of that space would be for the wood stove. It was also the only good place for the stove because it places the chimney in a great location on deck, out of the way of any lines or hardware.

This is where the electrical box is, on a little counter above the place where the cold fridge cabinet was, while we are doing some rewiring we needed to fashion a better box to hold all that mess. Just behind the box is the starboard aka cabin, which will be Aislinns room.

We build a small handling locker with the top being a chart table/extra counter space, it is against the bench seating.

Here is the new electrical box, a bit smaller than the last thing that was there, which was also made out of some kind of cardboard it seemed. And we build a wall to block off Aislinns cabin, on the other side of that wall is shelves for her to keep her little treasures. We make no claims that we are builders in any way, shape or form, it's ain't going to be pretty but it works.

Next was to build the shelf for the wood stove to stand on. A lot of research went into figuring out how to have a cast iron wood stove installed in such a small space, making a heat shield to allow us to have only two inch clearance from the stove and the walls rather than the ten inches required for unprotected areas. Here we have a plywood shelf with cement board platform and porcelain tiles. The heat shield on the sides are made of cement board and will be tiles with glass. We have stainless steels tubing to provide a one inch spacer to hold the board away from the wall.

Still have some tiling to do.

We made the space under the shelf into a bin to hold wood.

The stove will be sitting on the platform below with the chimney coming up between the newly built wall and the electrical panel so we decided to tile the new wall and that whole area, also a good way to get some decor aspects rather than just white painted plywood. 

Still working on it, more pictures, hopefully of it all completed to come soon.