Hello all. Long time lurker first time poster. Might as well be the install right? I haven't gotten very far yet but here it is. this will be the home of a new Timber Ridge (englander) 50-TRW35. We've been in this house for just over a year now and I'm about a year late doing this. Our last house, or other house (we have it rented out waiting for the market to come back a little), had a small freestanding wood stove that the brand escapes me at the moment. Anyhow it heated that 1150sq ft circular floor plan great. This house is to spread out to heat the same way so I went with a wood furnace instead and thought this one looked the best, next to a caddy but $$, to have sitting in the house. I must say a heat pump is the most unpleasant way I have ever heated. So here is the progress. The upper level will be built up more than the step. It should be about 8 1/2" when it's done. There will be some ceiling work that will follow the same shape but set back about 12" from the outside edge of the hearth.