wood stove in fire place

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Ctd01

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Oct 25, 2011
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I notice alot of people install there wood stoves in there fireplace. What is the benifit of this? Easy installation? We put ours outside the fireplace so it radiates th heat better.
 
My reason was ease of installation...straight run right up the existing flue system..I am sure I would get a bit more heat if it was extened onto the heart more but the blower helps....also I have a toddler so having it set back is a plus for right now....
 
I installed it in the fireplace to save space in the room, plus it is safer with only one side exposed. I blow a fan on it to get most of the heat into the room and the masonry does radiate the heat quite a while after the stove dies down. It was an easy installation straight up the chimney with insulated stainless flex liner. If I ever move and take the stove with me the new owners would have a usuable standard fireplace. I'd just have pop the flue damper plate back on.
 
Our room is only 13 feet across, so putting it out in the floor would take over the whole room.

I'm wanting to put one in the basement too, but it will go out in the floor.
 
Room size, hearth specs. I wanted a stove more than an insert. It radiates plenty of heat.
 
Mine sets on the hearth real nice and I have stove sitting on a thin plate of aluminum to disburse the heavy weight on the bricks.
I have 8 inch double wall liner straight up the chimney after removing the damper and a few fire brick to allow enough room.

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When I Had my wod stove in the fire place I had no problem with heat. Heated the whole house 1100 sq feet. Old brick house that is. Which is a big heat sink and single pane windows. The masonry fire place acted like a big heat source for more radiating heat evenly. Did not get temp. swings It was on outside wall.
 
I put my stove in the fireplace because the fireplace was doing me absolutely no good at all. That and you know what they say..."if the stove fits...". Truth be told, I bought my stove second hand and I consider it just dumb luck that I got as good a stove as I did. My Kent, a pre-epa stove, is essentially the predecessor to the design used in the excellent PE series stoves. It's a high efficiency stove built in a time where most all of what you could get are basic ol' smoke dragons....but that's a story for another thread. I didn't fall upon "hearth.com" until a few years into burning it.

I find the biggest advantage to having the stove set back into an existing fireplace hearth is the amount of thermal energy the masonry "banks" and releases over time. Helps to somewhat even out the temperature peaks and valleys as the stove heats up and cools down during the burn cycles. I also have a little ecofan to help with some of the convective airflow as well.
 
Mine replaced my old monster sized insert. I wanted the heat to be able to get out of the fireplace and five hundred pounds of stove and that ton of bricks around it radiate heat long after the fire dies down. And half of the stove fills the fire place and half of the stove is out in front of it. Works a treat.
 
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