Installing A Freestanding Wood Stove In A Fireplace

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Installing a freestanding wood stove in a fireplace.

All freestanding stoves and fireplace inserts should be installed by a professional chimney sweep or hearth installer. Start with the rigid sections and work from the stove to the wall. It is however important to see that the stove fits in well within the fireplace. The existing hearth is already non combustible and the chimney itself can be used as an outlet for the smoke produced by the stove.

Install the slip connector or telescoping section last. Then connect it to the wall thimble. Last fasten each section of stovepipe with self tapping screws. Depending on the situation a twin wall insulated flue can be installed internally within the house and up through the roof or installed on the externally with the flue connected through the wall.

Recall that fireplace inserts are installed into fireplaces not freestanding stoves. Free standing units free standing wood stoves can be placed inside a fireplace. Installation of the stove pipe is the same as for vertical installation. This beautiful 3 16 in.

Before there were gas stoves and ovens wood stoves were used to heat homes and also to cook food. Steel stove is also one of the cleanest burning epa certified stoves on the market without catalyst. This usually means that a rear vented stove sits in front of the fireplace on the hearth the smoke pipe comes off the back of the stove and the turns up through the throat of the fireplace to vent the smoke through the fireplace chimney. Free standing wood stoves have been in use for centuries.

This is a perfectly good way to install a stove.