Points of Difference: Insulation

Question 6: How is the oven insulated and how much space will it take in my kitchen?

Wood Stone puts all of the mass in the cooking chamber's materials and not in the surrounding insulating materials.

This maximizes heat use and retention while minimizing the amount of space required.

In the image at right please notice the 4" of Spun Ceramic Fiber Insulation around the Dome and the 4" of light-weight Rigid Insulation below the Floor.

By using highly efficient insulation in just the proper amounts Wood Stone maintains a 1-inch clearance to combustibles while still minimizing the footprint in the valuable real estate that is your kitchen. Below you will see why some manufacturer's ovens require as much as 33% more kitchen space for the same cooking area as a Wood Stone oven, and why that translates to thousands of dollars of savings. Example 1 On the left is the footprint of a Wood Stone WS-MS-5. On the right, another manufacturer's oven using a lower grade insulating material. Dimension A represents the interior dimension of the cooking space, which for both ovens in this example is 52". Dimension B represents the distance to the outside of the oven, including the dome, insulation and the exterior metal. Dimension C represents the total floor space impact, including the oven and it's clearance to combustibles.

The Point: Because we use superior insulating materials, for relatively the same cooking surface our oven requires much less floor space.

Clearance to Combustibles

Spun Ceramic Fiber Insulation

Dome

Floor

Wood Stone

Other Manufacturer

	A	B	C	Cooking Area	Oven Footprint	Clearances Footprint	Space Saved
Wood Stone	52"	64"	66"	14.7 ft²	22.3 ft²	23.7 ft²	7.8 ft² (33%)
Other Manufacturer	52"	74"	76"	14.7 ft²	29.8 ft²	31.5 ft²	7.8 ft² (33%)

Thousands in Savings Each Year! What is the price of kitchen space in your market? $10 a square foot / month? $25? $50? In this example our oven uses 7.8 less square feet of kitchen space. A little math will tell you how much you can save, it is more than you might expect!
ft² Saved	Price / ft²	Months	Yearly Savings
7.8	$10.00	12	$936.00
7.8	$25.00	12	$2340.00
7.8	$50.00	12	$4680.00

Example 2

On the left is the footprint of a Wood Stone WS-MS-5. On the right, another manufacturer's oven using a lower grade insulating material. The dimension markers represent the same points as above, but notice that the other manufacturer uses less insulation. They achieve the same exterior dimension as our oven, but do so at the sacrifice of a much wider clearance to combustibles that ultimately results in the same impact on floor space in the kitchen.