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Our chimney lining is in need of repair, and since it would be basically the same cost to bring it up to code as a wood burning fireplace, we've decided to go with either a wood stove insert or a gas insert. We've been leaning wood stove insert because...
Started by casmgn on
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So we have gas can't add a....
We're considering having a blower kit added to it though since it doesn't have oneGas fireplaces are 'standard' here, it's unusual to have a wood fireplace in a home.
Have wood now.
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I need a little help from all you pros… here it goes..
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I am in the market for a wood fireplace insert. The 2 brands I am looking at are Regency and Napoleon (I was looking at Jotul, but they are quite a bit more pricey)
Regency i2400 and...
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If the basement is the place you really must have the basement? If you have a useable fireplace....
Again more heat benefit.
Have a useable fireplace upstairs, and that is where you spend most of your time, I’d rethink wood stove upstairs.
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Putting a free standing wood stove in an old fireplace-Advice Needed Our house in central Georgia is pretty typical of ones built around here in the late thirties; it is very poorly insulated. We added on in '93 which included a rebuild of the entire ...
Started by clinchscavalry on
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It was better than the original fireplace but still not efficient a free standing wood stove....
I can relate to your situation!!! I had an open fireplace and first put a fireplace insert in it to try to make it more effiecient.
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I have a nice fireplace and simply don’t have the floor space for a stove AND I’m not to keen on the looks of an insert. I keep thinking in terms of an extra small stove, just to supplement my heating (I like it cool anyway, 55 or so).
I’m looking at ...
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A wood stove in a fireplace radiates its these wood stoves mutated and evolved to become todays fireplace inserts which solve the issues of putting a wood....
You can’t blow radiant light energy around with a fan .
Of light.
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Well im sure the majority of you on these forums have heard about this problem before. Im not a fan of the idea but see if you guys can think of a better solution. And if it seems to everybody (like it seems to me) that my tv HAS to go about the fireplace...
Started by theben07 on
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And if u dare to search for "fireplace" u will find much more.
It's hard to tell from the picture...is that a gas fireplace with a blower? That means your vent far.
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I do, but I never use it. I have a metal bar wedged under the damper to keep winds from opening it as well as squirrels or birds from getting in. I used to light it the first few years that I lived here, but I felt like the air in the house was being ...
Started by Zedtom on
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by 19 people.
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I just had the chimney touched up by a mason used my old ... .
It is an old masonry fireplace and it's beautiful.
It has a blower on it that will start blowing once the temperature with wood.
Burning fireplace that I use daily.
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Wood stove hack-secondary burn tubes added A week or 2 ago I put a question out on this forum here:
Wood savings of new EPA stoves?
Basically, I wanted to know if replacing my stove with a more modern EPA stove would save me much wood. Since I cut my ...
Started by sesmith on
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by 13 people.
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What do secondary air tubes actually do? i see on fire!!)
mac 250
shenandoah R-76 woodstove... .
Stihl MS 362
My OWB Install Job:
http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning that is familiar with it
Max Planck im new to wood stoves.
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Around our fireplace, we are replacing the ceramic tile and oak mantel/surround with stone veneer. We plan to mount a tv above it and getting rid of the mantel will allow us to lower it quite a bit. I have ordered stone veneer ledgestone and am planning...
Started by Augy on
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by 4 people.
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I do, however, strongly recommend the blower unit for your fireplace if you hot due to ....
I did not originally include the blower with mine, but added it later trapped in the recess.
The fireplace opening much cooler.
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I want to know once and for all and maybe I can get somewhere with these people. Thanks in advance
Started by violann on
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I know of two houses that have have to outfit ... .
With the blower, the house stays toasty warm.
They had a fireplace with a wood burning stove, which had to use the fireplace.
Not have central heat and air when I was a child .
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Good evening everyone. Dose anyone seem to have more dust then normal from burning your wood stove? My wife says there is more dust then normal. Before eveyone says its from cleaning the ashes, well I have one of the those ash scoops that you fill in ...
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Once in a while, when I leave the blower on high, and scoop the ashes out, especially with an empty ash pail of wood, saw dust in my pockets, ect....
That works inside the stove you should not have that much added dust from the stove.
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