My new Osburn 1800 Insert

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FyreBug

Minister of Fire
Oct 6, 2010
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Kitchener, Ontario
Hello Everyone, just thought I would share my experience installing an Osburn 1800 in my basement fireplace. As you can see from the following pic the fireplace was fairly ugly to begin with...

then I put a mesh on the brick so that I can put some nice river stones and bring it all the way to the ceiling.
 

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Forgot to mention I had to jack hammer the tiles and concrete in front of the fireplace. This is what it looks like before we can add the river stones (hopefully this weekend)

The bottle of beer is a nice touch, no?
 

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Notice the Lintel. I bought it at an old farmhouse. The beam must be over 100 years old, still has the old square nails in it. Left them all in for the 'rugged' look.
 

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Trust me... the dehydration level was high (the room was very dry - beer evaporated quickly). I could not afford a lintel big enough to hold all the beer bottle for this project :)
 
Just thought I'd share the warmth. Gather round folks, the beer & Pinot is on me. Just provide the story telling...

 
Nice setup.
 
Looks great!
 
Stove Geek said:
Looks awesome! Do you like it as much as you were expecting?

Depends how you define it... It's cooking me out of the basement! :) To fix that I removed one of the dropped ceiling tile, cut a hole in the floor above, put a nice register so a lot of the heat now goes in the living room upstairs. The I bought one of those doorframe fan to push the warm air up the stairs. It now balances out the heat in the house.

I've got a 70 year old house and not that well insulated and I noticed right away the furnace doesnt kick in near as often.
 
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