Hello,
I would like to share a few pictures of my install with you all, but first I want to thank Hearth.Com for having this helpful page. I couldn’t have done it without all of your helpful forums.
The first thing I did was determine were the best place for my stove was and I layed out an area in the cornner with some tape. I then had to take the floor up and poor some footers and ad a header in the crawl space to support the weight of the hearth and stove.
I went with a raised hearth with a layer of cement board micore and then another layer of cement board. On the wall to the left of the stove I went ahead and pulled the drywall off and place cement board on the wall, and then I placed another sheet 1 inch off of that vented from top to bottom. All of the rock I collected over the years from Rocky River. My mantel I made out of a piece of old growth oak that I got from a log cabin that was built in 1850, one nice piece of wood. I used an ax and an old hand plainer that was my grandpa’s, he would be proud of me. My first fire was a test fire from the shavings from the mantel. Has a great draft up the chimney. But thanks everybody for all of your posts again it passed inspection and has been burning ever since. I think my wife is already getting sick of me talking about second burns.
I would like to share a few pictures of my install with you all, but first I want to thank Hearth.Com for having this helpful page. I couldn’t have done it without all of your helpful forums.
The first thing I did was determine were the best place for my stove was and I layed out an area in the cornner with some tape. I then had to take the floor up and poor some footers and ad a header in the crawl space to support the weight of the hearth and stove.
I went with a raised hearth with a layer of cement board micore and then another layer of cement board. On the wall to the left of the stove I went ahead and pulled the drywall off and place cement board on the wall, and then I placed another sheet 1 inch off of that vented from top to bottom. All of the rock I collected over the years from Rocky River. My mantel I made out of a piece of old growth oak that I got from a log cabin that was built in 1850, one nice piece of wood. I used an ax and an old hand plainer that was my grandpa’s, he would be proud of me. My first fire was a test fire from the shavings from the mantel. Has a great draft up the chimney. But thanks everybody for all of your posts again it passed inspection and has been burning ever since. I think my wife is already getting sick of me talking about second burns.
