Bought my first wood stove about 6 months ago, been a long trip but I finally finished it.
I had a chimney installed in my house, built a hearth, had the wall stoned (limestone from a local quarry), tiled and then installed my stove. Haven't lit it yet. I tried to put down a photo series here of the progress and finished product. I did some of the work myself and hired some of it out. I still have to put some trim on the outside edge of the stone but that's about it!
Hearth is framed with 2x6's supported with concrete blocks in between. Perfect fit.
Pretty excited. I have about a cord of dry wood but working on more. I'm going to use my stove for supplemental heat on extremely cold days and power outages. I may end up using it more if it heats my house evenly. The stove is dead center in my single level home (~2300sq ft) so we'll see what happens! I think I have about a 25ft chimney (Metal-Fab).
Lemme hear what you think! (Thanks begreen for some of the help you offered early on)
PE Summit
I had a chimney installed in my house, built a hearth, had the wall stoned (limestone from a local quarry), tiled and then installed my stove. Haven't lit it yet. I tried to put down a photo series here of the progress and finished product. I did some of the work myself and hired some of it out. I still have to put some trim on the outside edge of the stone but that's about it!
Hearth is framed with 2x6's supported with concrete blocks in between. Perfect fit.
Pretty excited. I have about a cord of dry wood but working on more. I'm going to use my stove for supplemental heat on extremely cold days and power outages. I may end up using it more if it heats my house evenly. The stove is dead center in my single level home (~2300sq ft) so we'll see what happens! I think I have about a 25ft chimney (Metal-Fab).
Lemme hear what you think! (Thanks begreen for some of the help you offered early on)
PE Summit
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