Cost of free standing stove and installation

Good class A chimney is expensive, but not $100/foot. It is around $100 for a one foot piece, but 4 foot sections are in the neighborhood of $250 from the pricing I've done. All the specialty fittings are expensive as well. Here's one I found online, I have not used these guys though.
http://www.stoves-pipes.com/6-ICC-EXCEL-CLASS-A-CHIMNEY-PIPING-s/145.htm

I have the ICC Excel Class A stuff in my house, supposedly the best pipe I can get. Warrantied as long as I own the house. If it is ever damaged in a chimney fire I pay labor and ICC supplies free replacement pipe.

Through the wall installs are not my favorite way to go, but they can work for a lot of folks. The colder your climate, the less likely you are to be happy with through the wall.

I did mine complete for under $1500. Self installed at an existing site but new hearth, stovepipe, and new stove. Do some shopping.

If you are buying a new stove and paying a professional to supply the chimney and do the install then a general rule of thumb is one third of cost for the stove, one third for chimney and one third for install. But as you will learn from many experienced members here, it can be done for less. There is more than one way to skin a cat. But the risk lies in the fact that making mistakes or trying to cheat the system can lead to dangerous setups, poorly preforming stoves and the like. A big factor will be how much carpentry is needed to get the chimney thru your ceiling and roof. Based on the rule of thumb shown above, if you can do some of the work yourself, or if you can source the chimney parts on your own you will likely save a good deal of money. The Englander stoves from Home Depot appear to be one of the most affordable quality options. Deals on chimney parts can be found online as well, if you know exactly what you need and are willing to do the research. If you aren't mechanically gifted, paying the higher price for a professional to supply the parts and do all the work is the safest option, but as you have learned, it isn't cheap!

I installed my own setup, it was my 1st time, it was pretty easy to do. Solely used dura plus chimney pipe, through the ceiling kit, class a chimney from home depot. (Watched a few video's on youtube for installing it all properly, also had the instructions with me at all times)
I have 18ft of class A pipe that cost around $550.00, the ceiling kit was another $250.00, roof support brackets $150.00, fire stop shield was another $120.00, basic black pipe was $30.00 so just in venting I was around $1,100.00, I didn't charge myself a labor fee.
Don't forget about the cost of a hearth pad (if you need it)

I just had a wood stove installed in my house. My install is difficult because it is a cathedral ceiling with 12 feet of pipe inside the house, then, the roof is metal and very high and steep, 11 more feet of pipe outside the house. A dangerous and difficult install.
I was quoted a price of $3500 for parts and labor. I had already built the hearth and bought the wood stove. I wound up paying $1800 for parts and labor because I had a lot of the pipe laying around from another wood stove install.
So, $2500 on the stove, $3500 original estimate on the install, certainly would have cost $700 to get the hearth built, yeah I was pushing $7K for the entire job.

I had a BK ashford installed in July. It was right around $6300. About 3k of that was the stove. I have about 16 total feet of pipe. We used double wall. Also had to use 2 45s. 2 roof braces. Hearth pad.. They told me only about 800 in labor. For that price I couldn't see doing I myself and insurance wanted it to be professionally installed.

Installing a stove isn't brain surgery if its a simple install and you are a little handy. Bet you save 4 grand that way. Good choice on the Englander. Menards has the deal on stove pipe. Even with shipping from Casper Wyoming to North California it was still my best deal for quality pipe.

Mike7622 said:

I've been looking at the Englander 2400 from HD and the US stove 2500 from TS. I have 1800 sqft. to heat, so I assume either of these two stoves should be adequate

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Stay away from US Stove woods stoves: they are crap, made in China, virtually no customer support from US Stove company, do a search here on US Stove.
Englander is a solid stove maker right here in the USA (Virginia) great products, great customer service / support, they use heavier grade (thickness) steel for there stoves, US China stove company is thinner material. Look them up, look at the weight difference.
FYI - I use to own and operate a US Stove for a couple seasons, the stove fell apart on me.

So you have a fireplace but aren't going to put the stove in that area? You could run a liner down the existing chimney and extend the fireplace hearth pretty easily if need be. You would save a lot of money that way.

In 2000 my stove, chimney and install was $4500. The stone walls and hearth was not included. The major surprise at the install was they weren't going to do any carpentry to create the chase through the ceiling. They wanted to do a snake like chimney in my cathedral ceiling great room new house. That didn't fly with me. I built the chase. They came back cut the hole in roof and the rest of the install. A total of 4 hours and wanted to charge me for the time they came and I refused to let they do a crap job. If I was doing it again I would have done it myself. The carpentry is the biggest part. The rest is assembling parts.

So shop around, understand the stove and chimney you want to buy. Clearance's and hearth requirements for each stoves should be understood. Then have the installer explain how there going to do the install where you want the stove. Most important hang around here ask questions. But if your handy definitely consider doing it yourself. You can save yourself a lot of coin.

<-probably have around 2k in mine - that includes the building the hearth and renting a lift the for the day i installed chimney