Free-standing wood stoves have been in use for centuries. Before there were gas stoves and ovens, wood stoves were used to heat homes and also to cook food.
You will need to contact local city officials for some aspects of the installation. Free-standing stoves generate a lot of heat, and while the legs of a stove are meant to help dissipate some of that heat and deflect it from the floor, you still have to have a fireproof platform. Concrete slabs, tile, brick, natural stone and blocks are all acceptable flooring materials.
A chimney can be installed by a professional if you do not have one. Each freestanding wood stove will have its chimney requirements, so you must pay attention to those. You will also need to ensure that you have a metal chimney or a masonry chimney that has been lined with metal. You may also need to check the regulations for your local area to see whether you are allowed to install a wood stove.
Some places are unhappy to have smoke pouring out of your chimney, and freestanding wood stoves will produce a lot of smoke. This is a critical consideration when it comes to installing a wood-burning stove. These things only work properly when there is proper air ventilation in the room.
So, if there is not a lot of air flowing in, then the wood-burning stove will burn efficiently. However, you may struggle to light it. Again, this is where a professional is going to help because they will be able to work out whether there is enough ventilation in the room.
If there is not, then you can install a ventilation brick near the fireplace. It is a bit of extra effort, but it will be bringing in some of that outside air, which will help keep the fireplace alight.
If you have an existing fireplace, then the chances are that there will already be a ventilation brick there. This is because you would have needed it for fireplaces in the past. You would think that you want to be buying a wood stove that fills up the entire fireplace area, but no. You would end up boiling to death if you did that.
Wood stoves pack a real punch when it comes to heat. Therefore, the wood stove you buy will often be much smaller than the old fireplace. This is where a professional installer can help. The type of stove you will need to buy will depend on the size of the room, the air flowing in, insulation, etc. If you are planning on doing everything yourself, then look for a wood stove calculator. Pay special attention to the wall pass-through, which is the area where your stove pipe will connect to your chimney.
Any wood or combustible material in this are must be cut back to comply with building codes. Special insulated sleeves are available to accomplish this transition. As previously mentioned, it is not to be used for passing through Walls, Floors or Ceilings. Single wall stovepipe is designed to connect a wood stove to a nearby chimney. It is available in different thicknesses 24 ga.
Some manufacturers produce stovepipe in porcelain enamel colors to match their stoves. This distance can be reduced in two different ways:. Stovepipe can usually be trimmed to size with a tin shears or other cutting or grinding tool — see:. Heavier gauge pipe can be more difficult to cut, so these pipes use adjustable slip joints, which eliminate the need for trimming. When assembling your stove pipe use black furnace cement to seal between each piece. In addition, use three sheet metal screws at each joint in the pipe.
This is a double wall stovepipe with a stainless steel inner wall and a black painted outer wall. Do not confuse this double-wall interior piping with the Class A Chimney described in the beginning of this document—this stuff is for interior use only! Ask your Hearth Dealer for more information about this type of Stove pipe. My first experience with lack of proper floor protection came when I was homesteading in West Virginia. Our house had no central heating, but there was a fireplace ready to serve our heating needs.
That night, we lit a roaring fire and settled in for a peaceful winter eve. Suddenly, we smelled something burning! After a frantic search we discovered that the floor underneath the fireplace hearth was smoldering. Different stoves have different requirements, but all woodstoves need to have a non-combustible base underneath.
This base should extend a minimum of 8 inches around all sides of the stove and 18 inches in front of any loading doors. In addition, the stove board should extend underneath and horizontal run of the stovepipe connection to the chimney. They are different from fireplace inserts because they stand inside of the fireplace. What makes a freestanding wood stove and a fireplace insert is a wood stove that you install into your fireplace. They are more efficient than standard fireplaces that make other rooms colder.
However, freestanding wood stoves are still more efficient at heat generation than fireplace inserts. Freestanding woodstoves, although harder to install, have larger capacities and are more cost-effective than fireplace inserts. There are three ways to install a freestanding wood stove into your home. A through-the-wall installation is where you put the pipe from the stove through a wall. This wall may have an existing chimney that you can tap into for easier ventilation.
You can also choose to connect your pipe to a more cost-effective pipe chimney.
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